A reader sent another good interview with Dr. Mittelman about the work of Othram Labs to identify DNA in cold cases requiring advanced technologies.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-prosecutors/id1513765512?i=1000586222162
If the evidence in the OCCK case is not amenable to this type of testing, this should be explained to the public. If testing at the Michigan State lab or at Quantico over the years has extinguished the DNA in this case, tell the public. Quit with the arrogant secrecy when everyone knows there will never be an arrest in this case.
Why are we not entitled to an explanation of how all of the evidence in this case has been handled over the years? Why, when there are four sets of clothing, four autopsy kits, four cases’ worth of evidence, is there no support for having all of it tested by a lab like Othram? If due to storage failures over the decades, all of it is degraded and contaminated, why won’t someone explain why and more importantly, how it will never happen again?
How is the OCCK case so different from the many other cold cases of similar vintage that have been solved through the use of a lab like Othram? Authorities never made an arrest in this case. Does this immunize them from questions or a review of the case?
In the wake of the many DNA/genetic genealogy solves in cold cases around the world, authorities compound the suspicion by avoiding this fundamental question: Why are you unwilling or unable to use a lab like Othram to evaluate these cold cases?
Ignoring this obvious question compounds the many failures in this case.
Another reader sent this interesting link from GEDmatch about the genetic witness program:
Finally, another reader informed me today that Det/Sgt Dave Robertson, who ran defense for the MSP on the OCCK case for quite a few years, died on November 21, 2022 at the age of 64.
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Today’s Detroit Free Press. Full page color ads sponsored by USA Today on The Michigan Murders with killer John Norman Collins and teen killer Cody Jackson. Never anything in the Detroit media about OCCK case.
That is so true. Nothing about OCCK…..ever.
Here is a link to the planned documentary on Collins, which is being made by Detroit area filmmaker Andrew Templeton. It says Templeton’s interest is in the Michigan murders of the 1960’s. Let’s hope he plans a sequel, maybe the 1970’s.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/all-about-ann-arbor/2023/07/04/independent-documentary-highlights-michigan-murders-and-crime-in-1960s-ann-arbor/
L. Brooks Patterson had his media toadies trained pretty well. And there is always the built in potential for lap dog crime beat reporters who rely on the cops and prosecutors for stories, go drinking with the cops, and end up with a heightened bias for law enforcement and self-preservation. Not to mention that you can NEVER get a decent, honest, straightforward comment from law enforcement associated with this case. It’s all circular, useless information. Really frustrating.