I'll take door #2...
Word on the street is two seperate avenues are being investigated...a relative that may have been associated with the Process is one, and his father's connection to Abner Grossman, and thereby being connected to Dyer Grossman, is the other.
The other word on the street is that Neo bailed on Manny; no details yet as to why.
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Police said Halverson had even drawn up applications for state and federal
money to establish homes for boys.
Similar allegations have surfaced regarding Shelden and his associates in
Brother Paul's Chlldrens Mission, sponsors of the alleged homosexual nature
camp for young boys on North Fox Island.
The 48-year-old Shelden, sought by State Police in St. Clair and Traverse
City on two counts of criminal sexual conduct involving a 14-year-old
boy in Port Huron and one involving an eight-year-old Port Huron boy on North
Fox Island is a member of the board of directors of Boys Republic Inc., a
residential center which provides care for emotionally disturbed, sociologically
maladjusted adolescent boys.
The director of the Farmlngton Hills center, Gordon K. Boring, expressed
both shock and relief following the revelations first reported in the Record-Eagle.
"I can't tell you how shocked I was when I read the stories," Boring said,
but indicated he also felt a sense of relief because Shelden had "no direct
contact" with any of some 75 boys housed at the center.
"Thank God, only professional therapists, not board members, work with our
residents," he said.
Shelden, a life-long bachelor, was reported in a 1975 interview with a downstate
newspaper as devoting much of his time to Big Brothers, Inc., a nonprofit
organization devoted to providing "father figures" to young boys from broken
homes.
However, spokesmen for the Big Brother organization in Detroit, Flint and
Port Huron vehemently deny Shelden was ever connected with that group.
Two associates of Shelden in Brother Paul's Childrens Mission, Gerald S.
Richards, of Port Huron and Dyer Grossman, of Carmel, N.Y., tried unsuccess-
fully to join Big Brother, but their applications were rejected, authorities said.
Richards is presently serving a term in Jackson Prison on criminal sexual
conduct charges involving a 10-year-old Port Huron boy. Grossman, sought by
police on criminal sexual conduct charges also involving a Port Huron boy, is
now believed to be in the state of Washington.
Richards was listed as president of Brother Paul's Childrens Mission and
director of the nature camp believed by police to have been operating on North
Fox Island. Grossman was listed as vice president of the parent corporation.
Brother Paul's, incorporated in 1975, claims to be dedicated to the prevention
of juvenile delinquency and operates "through the philosophy of naturopathy
and naturalism," described as a system of treating diseases by the use of herbs
and physical manipulation.
Courses at the "au naturel" camp included hygiene and care of the body,
elementary anatomy and sex education, according to literature distributed by
the mission.
Michigan State Police first began looking into Shelden's activities following
the arrest of Richards, a.Port Huron physical fitness teacher allegedly involved
in procuring young boys for homosexual purposes and in filming those activities.
State troopers from the Ypsilanti post raided Shelden's Ann Arbor home on
July 29, but no new evidence was turned up, authorities said.
Detectives from the Traverse City post were unable to obtain a search warrant
to investigate Shelden's home and cabins on North Fox Island, police said,
because under Michigan law, information on a crime must be current before
warrants are issued.
Sgt. Don Chappell told the Record-Eagle that police in Michigan must move
"within 24 or 48 hours" of a crime to obtain a search warrant.
However, pornographic films found in Richards' possession at the time of his
arrest in July, plus films seized in the New Orleans raid on the Boy Scout head-
quarters, did lead Tennessee authorities to raid Boys Farm, Inc.. in the Roarks
Cove community, near Alto, Tenn., after police there recognized a couple of
"actors" in the films, authorities said.
The boys farm, which housed wayward boys from throughout Tennessee, was
founded and operated by an ordained Episcopalian priest.
The Rev. Claudius I. (Bud) Vermilye Jr.. formerly the rector of the Alto
Episcopal Church, was indicted on 16 separate charges, including three counts
of crimes against nature, eight counts of aiding and abetting crimes against
nature, four counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors and one count
of using minors in the production of pornographic materials.