“‘Don’t stop fighting.’ For other survivors. For today’s children. For themselves.”
Getting a “feel for the case.”
For now, the last of the documents from the February 2022 FOIA response I am going to single out are two letters. They speak for themselves. That they were in Patterson’s old files, along with the undated column by Joel Smith calling out Oakland County for five dead kids in less than a year (“That’s one every two months.”) tells you a little about what Patterson was concerned with.
Interview with Inmate #C-64062 at Joliet Prison dated March 29, 1977
Of course Dr. Olson’s prescient observation that the child killings in Oakland County would continue was accurate. On March 16, 1977, my brother Tim was abducted and his body dumped on Gill Road on March 22.
A week later, three MSP detectives interviewed Guy Strait at the Stateville Prison in Joliet, Illinois to gain some insight into child pornography. Some interesting hypotheticals are posed by detectives at the end of page 17.