The Crumbleys in court.
There was more than met the eye in the successful prosecution of the Crumbley parents in the Oxford High School shooting case.
Tresa Baldas of the Detroit Free Press reports:
For two years, the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office withheld from the defense and the public multiple secrets and controversial deals it made during its historic prosecution of the Oxford High School shooter's parents: Confidential agreements with key school witnesses. Contracts with high-priced public relations firms. A nondisclosure agreement with a reporter who got inside access to the prosecution's trial strategy.
Now comes this: The executive producer of a Hulu documentary about the parents that was filmed while a judge's gag order was in place had family ties to Chief Assistant Prosecutor David Williams — she is his wife's cousin, by marriage, a woman he is friendly with and attends family gatherings with.
The Free Press exclusively learned about the connection after obtaining multiple documents that linked the two, showing Williams gave the producer/family member seemingly preferential treatment, confidential materials, as well as access to the inner workings of his office as it built its novel case against James and Jennifer Crumbley, the first parents in America to be held responsible in a mass school shooting committed by their son.
Both parents were convicted of involuntary manslaughter involving their son Ethan Crumbley at Oxford High School. They have both been sentenced to 10 to 15 years.
Ethan, 18, is serving a life sentence at Oaks Correctional Facility in Manistee in northern Michigan. Jennifer Crumbley, 46, is in Huron Valley Complex/Women's II in Ypsilanti and her husband James, 48, is in the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia.
On Nov. 30, 2021, Ethan Crumbley murdered four students and wound seven others including a teacher.
