“This is an ongoing investigation, and thus we are unable to respond to any specific questions about this matter.”

Here is an undated letter from FBI SA Andrew G. Arena in response to my dad’s letter dated April 17, 2012. I do not have a copy of my dad’s letter.

See how this works:

We know the FBI was involved in the OCCK investigation long prior to the law change referenced in the above letter, and at least as early as January 28, 1977, because the property receipt records of Christopher Brian Busch, who was questioned and polygraphed in connection with the child killings and the murder of Mark Stebbins in particular, show the late Flint PD Det. Tom Waldron released the evidence in the Busch arrest to not only Southfield PD Det. Lourn A. Doan, but also to Flint FBI SA Gordon M. Neilsen.

And we know that FBI SA Mort Nickel worked with Birmingham Det./Lt. Jack Kalbfleisch to try to identify the make, model and year of the car that left the bumper and exhaust impressions in the snow at the location where Kristine Mihelich’s body was dumped. See https://catherinebroad.blog/2013/02/05/the-gremlin-is-but-a-footnote-october-2006-we-didnt-ask-for-any-of-this-you-dogs/.

We learned decades after the fact that the FBI was involved in interview/hypnosis session of witness Doug Wilson, who described seeing my brother on March 16, 1977, perhaps right before he was abducted, as well as two other men and a suspicious car (not a Gremlin). https://catherinebroad.blog/2013/02/04/thank-you-doug-wilson/ and https://catherinebroad.blog/2013/05/24/from-the-fbi-foia-response-re-documents-relating-to-witness-doug-wilsons-statements-in-the-occk-investigation/.

If you have read the FOIA documents I have posted over the years, you know that it was the FBI who interviewed me, my brothers and my parents in the hours after Tim’s disappearance, in our home, each of us one by one.

In December 2021, my brothers and I had a pre-Christmas conference call with FBI agents from the Detroit office. Gee, we’re really sorry about your brother’s case, but the lead agencies are the MSP and the Oakland County sheriff. Our hands are tied. (They aren’t, but they won’t go near a public corruption investigation in the OCCK case.). But thanks for playing.

So how about this? The MSP acknowledges this is anything but an active investigation. Inform the FBI of this position and allow for some transparency. And let Mike Bouchard’s office know they can quit outright lying about the fact they have NO documents in the OCCK case.

L. Brooks Patterson is dead. His coconspirator cannot be that far behind him. What are you people so afraid of? Your lies and half-truths are so easily discovered–your tired cop game of telling partial truths and leaving much unsaid–is so obvious.

Who in a position of authority in the state of Michigan will call bullshit on all of this and do some semblance of the right thing? We ask people to come forward and when they do, the door gets slammed on them. It is completely Kafkaesque.

Lamborine, Sloan, the Gunnels brothers, John Hastings–they are all now dead ends (yet these men are very much alive). No one will talk to Richard Thompson, Ed Sosnick, Lourn Doan, Jack Kalbfleisch, Don Studt, Larry Wasser, Chet Romatowski or Jim Cox to ask if they have any observations they might like to share, knowing what they know now and upon reflection and perhaps even a pang of conscience.

If you won’t talk to these people one last time, if you won’t rerun all of the evidence in this case (four sets of clothing, for god’s sake!), if you won’t take tips seriously; then your investigation is a sham, designed to keep your files from ever seeing the light of day and protecting those who protected the killers of four children.