The Oakland County Child Killer

Gail Webster was beaten to death in her Troy apartment in 1978. The killer has never been caught. Her daughters have never stopped fighting for justice.
— Read on www.clickondetroit.com/news/investigations/2026/07/06/evidence-destroyed-a-case-gone-cold-gail-websters-daughters-still-fight-for-justice/

Hanlon’s Razor advises that one should never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.  A corollary is that one should not attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence.

In some cases, however, it becomes consistently clear that these default propositions should not be blindly applied.  The investigation by Jefferson County, Colorado into the actions of mass murderers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School in 1999 is certainly an exception to these “rules.”  A dozen local Jeffco officials, most of them in senior positions, held a clandestine meeting a few days after the massacre to discuss the sheriff’s files on Harris and Klebold they had been sitting on for a year.  Including an affidavit for a search warrant for the Harris home where Eric was said to be building pipe bombs.  No one did dick on this information and April 20, 1999, proceeded unabated.  Meeting attendees were told not to discuss any of this information and the file on Eric Harris would soon go missing.  This obstruction of justice held for five years until a detective at a grand jury proceeding finally told the truth about what was being withheld and lied about concerning prior knowledge of Harris and Klebold.

If you always believe officials do the right thing (especially in a murder case!!) or just make innocent mistakes; if you believe Hanlon’s Razor always applies, read Columbine by David Cullen.   The Washington Post described the book, 10 years in the making, as a “staggering work of journalism.”  It is.

The OCCK investigation has likewise passed the point of blind reliance on Hanlon’s Razor, but in so many more ways.  Let’s take another look at the POS Greg Greene.

In the previous post we debated the mugshot with Greene wearing eyeglasses.  Was the date 8-17-77 or 8-17-72?  A reader provided more insight (thank you) but it still involves questions we will never have answered and therefore, speculation.

Let’s assume for a minute that it is August of 1972.  Compare the 1969 mugshot below for a seemingly similar vintage:

I can’t explain the absence of eyeglasses in the various other mug shots.  Nor can I explain the top set of photos seemingly dated 1-2-6-77 (WTF?), of shitty quality and Xeroxed to boot.  Greene was arrested in Flint on 1-25-77.  This longhair version above seems to be dated 1-26-77, and is very similar to this mugshot of Greene (taken on 1-25-77?):

The reader also provided this from the FOIA documents:

Greene has arrests in 1970 and 1974 in Huntington Beach, California.  So who’s to say this monster doesn’t make a swing back to Genesee County in 1972?  What is that arrest for in August 1972 (assuming that’s the date)?  And how come nobody ever mentions it in Greene’s 1974 and 1977 forays in the criminal justice system?  It doesn’t take too much to guess what that arrest was for.  Maybe it’s a traffic infraction.  POS.

Where’s that file?

I’m going with malice.  But you knew I would.

A reader and I had a back and forth about the two mug shots in the record for convicted child rapist and partner to Christopher Busch, Greg Greene.  We wondered if we were overthinking the two disparate photos and if a reader out there might have some real-world experience to address questions raised.