https://www.wnem.com/2023/02/02/crime-fighting-kiosk-could-help-solve-cold-cases/
A reader observed:
The kiosk is in Genesee County and scrolls cold cases from Genesee County. With the Oakland County Prosecutor’s office
Observations from a reader
“tying up the loose ends” in Genesee County, I doubt there is anything on it about the Oakland County Child Killings.
I think the concept of the kiosk is good. If there were kiosks in Oakland County and people were assured they could remain anonymous, maybe someone would come forward. It could be a long shot, but it is one more tool that can be used. I don’t know anything about how the Crime Stoppers work, but if they are not necessarily required to report what is submitted to LE, it might turn something up that Marney or someone else could look into. The cost for this kiosk was $5,000 but in the video the woman said they have fundraisers planned to purchase additional ones for Genesee County. If they can do it, affluent Oakland County should be able to as well.
I have often wondered how many tips over the years were ditched by the OCP and the MSP–not just as part of being “overwhelmed” and inexperienced, I mean information over 47-some years that was flat out, purposely ignored. How many times did MSP Det/Sgt Garry Gray say an idea, an appeal to the public for help, something substantive in the press, “would generate too many useless leads”? MSP Det/Sgt Dave Robertson telling the camera the case “would never be solved.” An unnamed MSP spokesman responding to a question about Marney Keenan’s completely fact-based book, The Snow Killings, by snarking that the MSP “doesn’t comment on fiction.”
Compare all of those statements to the statements by Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson in the article linked in my previous post of today regarding the solving of the 1997 homicide of Mary Prieur. Sheriff Swanson didn’t have the MSP restricting his investigation. His county, unlike Oakland County, takes cold cases seriously.
And sadly, we need people to stop being cowards and come forward not only about the killers of Mark, Jill, Kristine and Tim, we need them to come forward about how this investigation was manipulated and slated for failure as early as January 1977 and about how the jackals won.
Thanks to readers for this link and the link about the Prieur case.