March 17, 1977

Richard Thompson, [former] Chief Assistant Prosecutor to L. Brooks Patterson, why did you check out Chris Busch’s Criminal Sexual Conduct against a minor file on March 17, 1977, when you showed up to work the morning after my brother was abducted in Birmingham, Michigan?

Your boy, Lenny Gilman, was the attorney entrusted to handle this nasty business. Why would you get your hands dirt(ier) by taking this file into your office? Why were you handling the file of an admitted child molester, who told you to your face less than two months prior that he and Greg Greene had fantasized about abducting a boy and keeping him captive, in the hours after my brother was abducted from a Birmingham parking lot? The record shows no effort by you or your boss to “check in” on one of Birmingham/Bloomfield’s biggest threat to kids in your jurisdiction during the week my brother was still being held captive.

And why was this newspaper among the documents left behind at the Birmingham Police Department, in the only remaining OCCK files at B’ham PD (belonging to the former Chief, Don Studt)?

I doubt (but really, who knows?) it was because you were Studt’s hero. I guess it was easier to play cops and robbers with cocaine dealers than it was to protect children in your jurisdiction. Imagine what my brother went through in the days after you monkeyed with Busch’s file (NO DEALS) and returned it to the file cabinet. It was before you had kids yourself. Did you ever let those thoughts creep into your brain after March 22, 1977? Did it make you a better father?