March 29, 1977

Thank you, Royal Oak Daily Tribune, for paying Frank Sass’ expenses.  Thank you for your brave reporting back in the day.  For your op-ed pieces.  For not being afraid of GM advertising dollars back when GM didn’t suck and was some kind of fucked up god.  Before the home foreclosures of GM execs in the suburbs of Detroit, after their pathetic business model failed to keep up, but after these four kids (and probably more) were murdered by the OCCK.  A killer or killers who, in one way or another, may have been connected to GM.  And thank you for your reporting on the murder of John McKinney in September of 1977.  Your reporting, compared to that of the other bigger area papers, was way more in-depth.  The Fourth Estate, for the most part, failed us the way the cops did.

In fairness, thank you also to The Detroit News for offering this reward.  In fact, I think they may have ended up offering more.  At one point, between The Detroit News, the City of Birmingham, and the Michigan State Police, I believe the reward at one point was up to $100,000.  In late-1970’s dollars.  Who doesn’t touch the reward?  Families with more money than God.  People who know they will die if they come forward ($100K isn’t worth it).  Or maybe someone did come forward with the right information and got blown off by police.  They blew off a lot of people.  Too crazy, too hard to follow, too lazy to double-check.  Someone in the MSP files was entitled to that reward money.

Frank Sass would be 95 or 96 now.  I’m not going to even bother Googling him.  An old FBI man, the odds are that even if he is still alive, no matter what the mess he found with the OCCK investigation, he kept his mouth shut about it. I know the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office and the Michigan State Police Department are just dragging their feet, waiting for more people to die off.  We all know that’s what you are waiting for.

In the past 41 years, who has died?  In no particular order; Chris Busch (pedophile and OCCK suspect), Chris Flynn (Berkley PD), Greg Green (pedophile and OCCK suspect), Ruth Stebbins (mother of victim Mark Stebbins), Joe Krease (MSP, second in command of original OCCK task force), Robert Robertson (MSP, commander of OCCK task force), Jane Burgess (attorney for pedophile Chris Busch), Marion King (mother of victim Tim King), Tom Waldren (Flint PD, who arrested Chris Busch and Greg Green in a pedophile and child porn case in Flint in January 1977), Ray Anger, Berkley PD and OCCK task force hanger-on until he died), and probably others I have not gotten word about.

I know from living through my brother’s kidnapping and murder that life is fragile and short.  How do the rest of you expect to outlive all of us who care about this case and your lies?  The more vocal of us might die before you, but the story will be revealed.  You got a four-decade reprieve.  So many of us got four decades of Hell.  Which is nothing to the Hell those four little kids experienced at the hands of monsters.

But you and the people close to you will be revealed, and called to answer for your silence.  Even if you “dropped the dime” on Chris Busch or another suspect.  You don’t get to play God. If any of the rest of us had done that, we would still be rotting in jail.  You got to keep your law licenses, your professions, and your lives.  Your actions set up this second nightmare and you don’t give a shit, I know that.  You feel like you made the best decision under the circumstances.  You got a second chance.  Mark, Jill, Kris and Tim never got to decide; never got a second chance.  You are not worth more than they are.  You fucked over everyone but yourselves.

Like I said, you don’t give a shit, and I know that.  You are, as you have always been, weak and entitled.  Wait as long as you want, but your part in the story will be revealed.  I promise you, that will happen.  A few more people might have to die before Pandora’s Box opens, but that will also happen.  You might be gone, but your family will be tainted by your silence.  Again, not like you give a shit.  But the truth will own your reputation forever.  Your explanations and excuses will mean nothing because they were used to cover up and defend rape, torture and murder. THAT is your legacy.  And that of the family you leave behind.