A long-cold federal child abuse investigation tied to North Fox Island in Lake Michigan is back under the microscope, after a filmmaker’s open-records push revealed that the FBI is still holding a large cache of material from the Francis “Frank” Shelden era. The case centers on Shelden, a wealthy Detroit-area landowner who ran a boys’ “nature camp” on the remote island in the 1970s, then disappeared just as investigators began closing in.
FBI records and a FOIA fight
Documentary filmmaker Colin Browen, who has been digging into the story, says he filed Freedom of Information Act requests for more than 1,047 unreleased FBI records and ended up suing the bureau after officials said it could take “more than six years” to process and redact the files,…..