An article about another predatory coach. For some it may be triggering, so be advised:

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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.

I didn’t revamp the blog theme yet, but I did spend a lot of time this weekend responding to emails people have sent me in this case and filing many documents I allow to stack until I can’t take it any more. I really cannot respond to all of the emails, but I hate not acknowledging them. I read them all but I get really behind when I attempt to respond. I appreciate the emails and apologize for not responding promptly or, in some cases, at all. My favorite subject line is “No need to respond.” (Sorry, it’s true.)

As I sifted through the emails and documents they provoked a lot of emotion for me. Like this set of emails:

THIS IS NOT AN OPEN INVESTIGATION. Holding out the very empty charade of DNA testing after almost 50 years of improperly storing your mishandled and misfiled evidence is not a reason to stay silent. How about a statement about why testing garbage evidence gives garbage results? You may not have anything to “report” but we have questions. We deserve an audience and answers. People have a right to know.

The MSP took the position in 2009 and 2012, when questioned by reporters at The Detroit News (Marney Keenan) and the Detroit Free Press (David Ashenfelter) that they could/would not comment on an open investigation. My brother Chris was quoted in the October 26, 2009, Detroit News article as follows:

“We want some justice for the victims. We’ve been told evidence is apparently lost; tests were supposedly conducted, but there have been no results for over a year. We never get a straight story.” . . . “That’s all we’ve asked for. We just want the truth to come out.”

In the 2012 Free Press article, reporter Ashenfelter commented on the failure of the MSP to communicate and allowed that this caused family members to fill in the gaps with “conspiracy theories.” Conspiracies are very real, Mr. Ashenfelter. “Conspiracy theories” means bullshit. Still think it’s all bullshit? I bet you don’t.

It is 2023. In what other high profile cold case can you think of where an agency simply doubles-down, refuses to move the ball, refuses to report anything to the public or the families, displays the utter lack of compassion that the MSP (and the OCP and OCS) has here and just waits for every family member to die off? I’m sure there is an FBI case or two where this method has been employed–UFO cases, other big “conspiracy theory” cases. Let’s hear from you readers, where else have you seen this level of obstruction? This case falls in to the stonewalling Hall of Shame.

As I said in my last post, the agencies paid to pretend to massage the OCCK files and keep the truth suppressed or muddled aren’t going to bring anybody up to speed. That’s why you should sign up for Marney Keenan’s presentation this Wednesday at 7 pm ET. https://farmingtoncommunity.librarycalendar.com/event/snow-killings-inside-oakland-county-child-killer-investigation 

As another reader pointed out, Wednesday is 47 years to the day that Mark Stebbins, age 12, was abducted in Ferndale. Forty-seven years. How do you say “no comment” to THAT?