2025

Thank you to the two readers this year who gifted the yearly fee for this blog ($323.00). I promise to keep after it for two more years to thank you for your generosity.

Thank you to all of the readers who send me news articles, links, case documents in other Michigan fiascos, as well as observations and ideas. Thank you to a few insiders who occasionally fill me in. I truly appreciate it.

I know some people miss the comment section. A few bad apples ran off people with valid observations and questions. Many people started emailing me instead of commenting anyway. OCCKTruth@protonmail.com. I get a lot of emails. I read them all, appreciate most of them, but I can’t answer them all. I’m sorry.

Every week there are cases involving prosecutions in CSAM and child sexual abuse cases, more than a few of them involving officers of the law or other “upstanding” citizens. Every week there are very cold cases solved using the latest DNA technology and forensic genetic genealogy. Some of these cases are as old or older than the OCCK cases. I post about some of them because in those cases someone did their job. They preserved evidence. They had integrity. They didn’t give up hope; they believed the victims; they didn’t prejudge. They represented those who were murdered and had no one to press their cases. They figured out how to fund further testing and they took one last chance with a third party lab.

It is my belief that the source of unparalleled corruption in the OCCK investigation is the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office of L. Brooks Patterson and Richard Thompson. Every ensuing prosecutor, with the exception it seems of Karen McDonald, has kept a lid on this case. I don’t know why Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is operating a cold case team that is looking into these crimes, but I intend to find out. (Any of you alleged investigative reporters in the Detroit area could find out who is working on the OCCK case from that office and whether they are coordinating with the prosecutor’s office, the state police and the state lab.)

I envision the great relief of Patterson and Thompson when the OCCK case was tossed to the Michigan State Police “task force” in January 1977. The MSP is the agency of “We don’t.” We don’t meet with family members of victims. We don’t speak to the press. We don’t answer questions. It is also the agency of “We won’t.” We won’t pay for an upgraded sequence of the Y-str DNA from Kristine’s autopsy. We won’t digitize the OCCK case files. We won’t use a third-party lab to reevaluate the evidence in four child homicide cases.

“We don’t” or “we won’t” doesn’t work in cold cases, as your lack of results has highlighted.

Even the previously highly dysfunctional Boulder Police Department has digitized all of the documents in the December 26, 1996 murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. They have recently inventoried 2,500 pieces of evidence and they reviewed 40,000 reports in the past year. They are working with sophisticated third-party labs to evaluate and reevaluate evidence in the case.

Another young girl was found murdered on a December 26–in 1976. You don’t hear much about her. Jill Robinson, age 12, from Royal Oak, Michigan, was abducted on December 22, 1976. Her monstrous captors kept her over Christmas. They dumped her body on the side of I-75 near the Troy Police Department. She had been shot in the face with a 12-gauge shotgun. Jill would later be considered the second victim of the Oakland County child killers.

Nobody is digitizing the documents in her case. Nobody is reevaluating the evidence in her case. Nobody is rereading the shoddy police reports of her abduction, captivity and murder.

We don’t. We won’t.

And a week after Jill’s body was found, Kristine Mihelich, age 10, of Berkley, Michigan was abducted. She was held captive for 19 long days. That’s how 1977 started off in Oakland County, Michigan.

We don’t. We won’t.

Tell me about any other unsolved serial murder case where four kids were held captive for between 3 and 19 days–kept alive and then murdered and dumped like garbage. Held captive for days before being murdered. They weren’t playing checkers and watching t.v. It wasn’t over quickly.

And then explain to me how police blow four homicides and then 48 and 49 years later refuse to use modern techniques being used in hundreds of cold cases to try to get answers. And why they refuse to be transparent about any of it, ever. If they maintain the evidence is all corrupted, say so. Tell us how it happened and how you will ensure something like this never happens again.

Their silence serves to protect those that came before them on the investigation, and does nothing for the four kids they were allegedly investigating on behalf of.

They are Boulder PD times four, with a multiplier of the state police failures. Come clean on behalf of the kids you betrayed in your investigations.