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I watched the local news special and was kinda disappointed there was no focus on Chris Flynn. That always seemed very interesting to me. Especially when Patterson says he was sure a cop was involved. Anyone else have similar thoughts.
Justin,
According to author J. Reuben Appelman, Chris Flynn was the cop in whom the young Berkley witness to Kristine’s kidnapping confided. Appelman used an alias for that witness, a young kid, but as Cathy has detailed many times, the Berkley PD (in the person of Sgt. Ray Anger) then tried to intimidate and silence that kid. That unnamed young witness claimed that he saw Kristine get into a car driven by an unnamed Berkley cop – apparently willingly and as if she had done it before.
After her murder, this young kid then confided to the father of a friend from school – Chris Flynn, who, again according to Appelman, took the allegations seriously.
Flynn, as we all know, in November of 1978, was bizarrely and mysteriously found shot to death in his vehicle, shot with TWO different weapons! Yet the verdict was “suicide”!
If Appelman’s account of what the young witness had to say was correct, then Flynn would have been a victim, presumably of the people who wanted to stop any threads from unraveling in the OCCK case.
We know the OCCK ring involved multiple men, and if the unnamed Berkley cop were to talk, then the entire ring could be exposed.
Was Chris Flynn murdered to keep him from investigating someone within the Berkley PD further, or was Appelman wrong, and Flynn a part of the ring himself?
One thing that was glossed over or not even mentioned in the ID or the WDIV shows – the story of H.Lee’s wife, Chris Bush’s mom – getting chauffeured to flint to pay off the families / victims that Busch molested…
It’s just really hard to put 40 Years of deception and deceit in a 4 hour documentary I believe Christopher Bush was a victim of his own parents and Francis Sheldon
REPLY to MICHAEL: I’ve always thought that Busch was probably molested early in his life at one of his boarding schools, starting his sick life of perversion. It does make one wonder if H Lee really did get boys from Bob Moore and was involved with those swapping parties. Hence paying and doing whatever it took to keep “the secret.” After seeing bond for CB set at $75,000 and then being crossed out to a grand, who took the other $74,000? The judge or magistrate who set bond, LBP or RT? Would Sheldon while being on the run be able to have loyalist Kill back here in MI for him?
Mark can you elaborate on that info? I havent read that anywhere. Although new to this case I have been home with the flu and have been obsessed with it since the ID channel special. I have read most of Cathys blog and just ordered Kill Jar but I still have so many questions.
After reading the great book. The Kill Jar. and reading some past posts here on this blog, I am confused abou the role of Officer Chris Flynn. Was he a potential suspect or was he a clean cop who “knew too much”? From what I understood from the Kill Jar, he was really trying to help Sebastian and then ended up dead.
No answers. LE says he offed himself. End of story.
I think there is an invisible No Man’s Land where LE is concerned.
IMO, Chris Flynn was recently divorced, lost custody of his kids and didn’t do well on the sergeants exam. He decided to end his life in a bizarre and dramatic way.
he’s not the only cop involved in this mess to take his own life. Look at Michigan State Police Sgt Joe Krease! He went out in a 1992 murder suicide, shooting his state trooper girlfriend, then himself. At the time they shared an apartment less than 2 miles from the location where Tim’s body was left.
Just seems really suspicious his suicide being within a week of Bushes suicude and also his involvement in the case as described in kill jar.
Thanks Nina. Your podcast is so informative. ***** 5 stars! After hearing about Dr Silley. Now it makes you wonder just how thorough & accurate the autopsies of Jill and Kristine really were. How can one case have so many incompetent professionals and in so many different departments.
My son narrowly escaped the clutches of Michael J Devlin and I am thankful for everyday I have had with him since. Corruption runs as deep here in theses cases as it did in that case. People in power make themselves oblivious to the the obvious while everyone mourns.
The most horrible kind of gaslighting.