Evidence.

As described in this redacted supplemental report dated June 10, 2009, Michigan state lab scientist Lori Bruski “advised” that in the months following the search of the Busch home in Bloomfield Village in late October 2008, the Northville team “meticulously went over all associated evidence [redacted].” Additional (“new”) evidence had been located with slides taken from the children back in 76/77:

This means that from let’s say, late March 1977, until June 2009 NOT ONE PERSON THOUGHT TO LOOK FOR THIS EVIDENCE WHEN DNA TESTING BECOMES A POSSIBILITY? NOT ONE PERSON ASSIGNED TO THIS CASE AFTER THE TASK FORCE GOT “SHUT DOWN” EVER THINKS TO TAKE A LOOK-SEE AT THE ACTUAL EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE?

Not one idiot thinks to check the position taken by the “task force” in 1999 that there was BUT ONE HAIR to compare with the bone dust collected from the body of David Norberg at the exhumation in Recluse, Wyoming in late summer of 1999?

In some sad way maybe it’s better this evidence was “missing,” because the state lab probably would have extinguished everything by now and still had no answers.

Here is the FBI Laboratory’s response to Lori Bruski’s request for examination:

I’d say that was a lot of overlooked, potentially very helpful evidence. Evidence that was probably improperly stored over the decades and ignored while it decayed.

Last month I posted an undated (WTF?) transcript of an interview with pathologist Dr. Richard E. Olson. From the context it is clear the interview was taken after Kristine’s murder but before Tim’s murder.

Interview with Dr. Richard E. Olson after the Mihelich murder

After expressing concern about touching the kids’ clothing–which lab scientist Charlotte Day, MSP Det. Roger Rivard from the Pontiac Post and Joe Krease from the Northville Post brought along for show and tell–Day reassures the doctor that “everything has been taken off that could be.” Ok, Nostradamus.

At least Tim’s clothing wasn’t in that pile (only because at that point he was still alive), right? But wait–in the hagiography to Robert Robertson penned by Tommy McIntyre, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, The Search for a Child Killer (1988), there is a description of a psychic’s participation in the case:

I have thought for decades that these suburban cops would have been much better off calling in Detroit PD to investigate these crimes–early on. That agency did have Ike McKinnon and his little bitch/snitch Richard Lawson, as well as the very questionable Sgt. Richard Clayton (see https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/5154207 , connections with Montmorency County and pedophile Arch Sloan), but on the plus side, I can’t help but think Detroit PD wouldn’t have messed around. Maybe the case wouldn’t have morphed to a point that somebody thought it was a good idea to give the case to the state police and a task force headed by a man with no homicide experience whatsoever.

Even in 1977 I can’t imagine someone directly handling evidence like this and dragging it around. “It was another time.” I guess it sure was. A time when evidence routinely went missing (in this and other cases in Oakland County), was misfiled, and where the medical examiner got pounded at work most days and did whatever the prosecutor told him to do. A time where a case gets fucked up so hard, in every way, that the chances of ever getting answers is basically zero. Too bad. At least no one else died. Collateral damage.

Charlotte Day’s DNA is on file in this case, so any cross-contamination of the evidence could be cleared up quickly. If DNA from Roger Rivard, Joe Krease, Dr. Richard Olson, psychic Philip Jordan, or anyone else in law enforcement or lab workers is discovered, that can be explained as well. So, no excuses. ALL of the evidence in this case needs to be tested by a third-party lab, I don’t care if law enforcement took the kids’ clothing home to pass around the dinner table. This blog is filled with news stories where testing by state labs and even the FBI lab at Quantico has come up short.

YOU got yourselves here. Transparency is the least payment you can make on your debt to these four kids and the living victims you ignored.