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What a shame .
Hi, This is your whole post? I don’t know what to make of it except….McKinney is the killer or McKinney killed Busch…?
Turns out that McKinney, Busch and Hastings hung out at Common Grounds. Also it turns out that Arch Sloan was connected in the Cass and very possibly related to John Sloan (must prove it), who was married to Reverend Redmond’s daughter. At some point all the dots connect in the maze of bad guys.
McKinney’s hit was so “Cass Corridor.”
Thanks, Marie. Common Ground was right down Adams Road from us and right by McKinney’s gallery.
Cathy,
After reading your blog and “Portraits in the snow” I have a horrible gut feeling about John Mckinney. He was my suspect before I read the book. I did read he was from Texas and he became a chaplain to forgive his past. That would certainly be something to research.
His son’s attraction to North fox island is also very strange.
He spent a lot of time right across the street from the King home. Timmy would have recognized him – maybe enough to go with him. His murder was loud ugly and in the faces of everyone. I believe he was heavily involved in all that went on in that dark world.
You wrote about an attractive couple from Birmingham that had an art gallery that used to come to the cass corridor to visit sex workers… anymore info on that detail?
Will you share the reason for focusing in on them? They used to go slumming up on eight mile too.
Come to think about it, that couple would have had to know McKinney too.
Turns out McKinney, as a chaplain visited the communities for the elderly out in Oakland (Pontiac). Reverend Redmond was known for his work with the elderly in the same area.
Christopher Busch worked at a retirement home as a cook in Pontiac [along with an affiliation to boys&girls club/big brothers/common ground{?} at the same time as he was a subscriber/provider{?} on the lists of Shelden/Richards] before his father bought him the restaurant in Alma – per BLK files CBBlog uploads.
ms Broad – geographic coincidences: what plant was your grandfather an inspector at in Flint? did your paternal Aunt ever teach in Flint? Jamie Greene worked in Ann Arbor {for?} while his brother Gregory Woodard Greene likely utilised his made ‘crawlspace’ in the home their father owned on Baldwin Blvd {putting GWG right in btwn 4 major freeway systems to choose from i75/i475 completed segments in 1973 & on/i69 goes east to Port Huron~Richards/us23}.
Flint to A2 on us23 is common enough, but the distance north on Woodward ‘creeping’ from cass corridor to m59/pontiac & the business loop to i75 {or us24 to i75} means Jill R was one of Busch’s victims the night she rode her bike to her father’s… only to be found today, 1976.
i read thru, but what was the spent shell casing found in Busch’s apartment so near date-wise to Flynn’s ‘suicide’?
Krussel may have been playing ‘santa’ early if he was the other person in the Skylark ‘putting 6 & 12 together.’
Can’t wait to read more!
“Two guns were found in Flynn’s car; Flynn’s gun and a 44-caliber gun registered to Berkley Officer Krussel. The gun belonging to Krussel was found on the floor of the car between the passenger seat and door. “.
Cathy,
Was there ever any information regarding how Officer Flynn had Officer Krussel’s gun in his possession??? Did he steal it? Is Officer Krussel still alive?
I have no clue as to the answers–I wish I did. I’m guessing no one ever chatted Krussel up on the record. If the guy is still alive, I would hope someone in the current task force has spoken with him.
okay… https://web.archive.org/web/20190602045244/https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/defenders/photos-of-oakland-county-child-killer-suspects-suicide-scene-released
the painting on the right looks to be a ‘McKinney Special’ in terms of framing…
this example has rips in the back of it, but was framed in McKinney’s gallery:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/306644695266
ms Broad: can a donation of $200 to the Tim King Fund be used to pay for half of the painting listed above?
it’s not macabre.
DNA – while there is no way to tell *who* assembled this, it having its original back paper means any number of things *could* be behind it – Hair/Blood Samples/sweat stains/etc. [evidence of CSAM?]
given the timeline of its assembly, McK may have worked on it alone.
info from McK’s address book/calendar for cross-references to the CB family [or others] was not w/in the up-loads – but given the multiple connections to Cranbrook & the local ‘Arts’ [w an upper-case A] scene, the possibility of McK having framed work for CB &/or family seems… more than plausible.
the framed painting in the photo of the suicide in BV 2wks after Flynn’s looks similar enough – but it’s not just the style of the era.
…&, really, what’s McK’s & J D B’s deal w the Hot Fudge Sundaes…? another code?
eye-ball, it looks like the sale ended on that painting today at 1:20 pm. Does “celebrity ties to Michigan” mean what I think it does? Readers have sent me links to other “McKinney specials” over the years–like it’s some weird, cultish deal because they mention John McKinney/Birmingham.
We extinguished the Tim King Trust last month with final donations to children’s advocacy centers in Detroit, Oakland County, Cleveland and Denver. I meant to write about this, but it never felt like the right time. There were very strict parameters guiding the trust and how money could be donated. We decided that with the horrendous increase in child abuse during the COVID lock downs and school closings that it was better to get the money in the hands of CACs that could address these challenges sooner rather than later. We donated half a million dollars between 2020 and 2025 to these centers, choosing to have our brother’s memory live on in the lives changed by these donations rather than as a name on a fund at Morgan-Stanley.
My encrypted email is OCCKTruth@protonmail.com if you want to discuss the McKinney framing/art further. Thanks.
both noble & appreciated.
truly, the whole point…
with regret that it ever needed to exist at all.
{email to come}
it looks like some one bought it – just after it was posted here…
hope some one else has the right idea…
offer above stands – if it can be verified the purposes of the sale to the benefit of this case:
half covered.