Was Cynthia Cadieux a victim of the Oakland County Child Killer? On the evening of January 15, 1976, sixteen-year-old Cynthia Rae Cadieux left her family's home in Roseville, Michigan, to visit a friend. After leaving her friend's house around 8 p.m., she seemingly vanished. The hope of her safe return was tragically extinguished in the early hours of the next morning. At approximately 1:05 a.m., a motorist driving down Franklin Road in Bloomfield Township discovered her nude body abandoned by the roadside.
An investigation into her death revealed a
brutal and violent end to the young girl's life. Cynthia's skull had been crushed by a blunt object, and there was evidence that her arms had been bound. The autopsy would later confirm that she had been both raped and sodomized by more than one individual. For a time, the heinous crime remained unsolved, leaving a community in fear and a family devastated by their loss.
A breakthrough in the case eventually came when investigators received a crucial tip. This information led them to Raymond Heinrich Jr. and Robert Anglin. The investigation uncovered that Cynthia had been kidnapped and taken to a motorcycle club in Detroit. There, she was tied up and subjected to a horrific sexual assault before being murdered. In 1979, both Raymond Heinrich and Robert L. Anglin were convicted of first-degree murder for their roles in Cynthia Cadieux's death and were subsequently sentenced to life in prison. A third man, who was a member of the motorcycle club and also implicated in the crime, had passed away before he could be brought to trial.
