Close up photo of the sketch on Busch’s bedroom wall and view of placement, above and to the left of record player;

A reader asked a few important questions about the pencil sketch of the screaming boy found on prolific pedophile Chris Busch’s bedroom wall at his “suicide” scene. Was it the actual drawing or a copy of the original? Was it ever tested for fingerprints? Is it still in evidence with the state police?

While there are at least 10-15 listings of evidence as simply manilla envelopes in plastic bags (no further description) and two manilla envelopes described as “original packaging/empty,” there appears to be no specific listing for this sketch as evidence in this case. There is evidence listed as having come from the 2008 search of the old Busch residence, but nothing listed from the “suicide” scene.

This is very interesting because lab scientist David Metzger specifically writes about removing a box from an evidence locker containing “a drawing of a child in a parka and numerous ropes and cordage.” As you can see in the document below, Metzger simply notes that because no ropes or cordage were recovered from the OCCK victims, no comparison could be made. “The ropes will be retained in the event future comparison with other possible uses becomes necessary.” No mention of any analysis of the drawing which sounds like the original as you would think (I know it’s asking a lot) Metzger would have described it as a photocopy of a drawing.

As Metzger avers in his affidavit dated 4/7/2012, the OCCK cases were very much on his mind at the time he examined the ropes because he was called to the scene of my brother’s body dump to help process the crime scene. Despite the failure to mention any examination whatsoever of the ropes for blood, hair, fibers or other evidence in his contemporaneous report of January 1, 1979, when the OCCK cases were very much on his mind, his affidavit some 33 years later lists more detail:

See also, https://catherinebroad.blog/2018/05/11/david-metzger-forensic-laboratory-scientist/

Bloomfield Township PD Officer J. L. Speicher prepared a handwritten Crime Scene Investigation Report prepared on 11/20/1978, the date Busch’s body was found. Among the evidence listed as taken to the police station for further investigation were “a drawing and some miscellaneous papers.”

We know that at least the ropes and the drawing made it into the box Metzger received from I.D. Technician Paul Brabant on 12/12/1978 (see Metzger report dated 1/11/1979 above). Interestingly, in his “Return of Lab. Services Requested,” dated 2/13/1979, there is no mention of the drawing or miscellaneous papers.

At some point in 2009, two of Busch’s nephews are interviewed about Uncle Chris. First the older of the two is interviewed. He later contacted the MSP saying he would agree to be reinterviewed and that his younger brother wanted to speak with police as well.

I have not been able to locate the initial interview of the older nephew, but I have scanned his second interview and the interview with the younger nephew. Many people have read these in the FOIA documents I posted a few years ago.

Read them and see what you think about the drawing on Uncle Chris’ bedroom wall. You know, the one that was apparently never tested for fingerprints and is apparently gone?

By the way, the MSP did polygraph the nephew who claimed his Uncle Chris took him to a location in Birmingham and physically pointed to where one of the victims was taken. The results of the MSP polygraph voodoo are of course redacted:

I know there are a lot of “anybody but Busch and Greene”s out there. And I am not so naive to think that in Bloomfield Village and Oakland County under normal “suicide” circumstances that big ole General Motors Cadillac Comptroller Daddy Warbucks H. Lee Busch and his wife would ever be mined for information about their n’er do well, POS, pedophile son. But the goddamn OCCK task force was called to their house in the wake of the “suicide” scene. Yet there is not one note or indication that H. Lee or Elsie Busch, who owned the home their criminal son was living in, were ever asked about this sketch or anything else for that matter.

Does simple deference to wealth and power in a place like Oakland County explain why there was no investigation into why this “suicide” scene reads like a graphic novel homage to the OCCK crimes, or at least to the murder of Mark Stebbins? I ask again: If he was set up, why wouldn’t the task force at least attempt an investigation into the situation when it could possibly lead to other participants? Who shut that shit down?

And why was that sketch never tested for fingerprints? After Metzger presumably returned the drawing and the ropes and cordage to the box they came from, where did they end up?