I forgot that there was a photo of a door that was wide open leading into the Busch garage on 11-20-78. There were no photos of the garage itself or the basement of the home, but it is a photo from the lower level of the house. As is always the case, any time I reread these documents the cavalcade of fuckery proceeds to pour out. I have posted about most of this before.
As described below, this door was found to be wide open after police attempted to break the glass on one door and then broke open the front door.
I reread the Bloomfield Township Police Department Incident Reports dated 11-20-78 on the death of Christopher Busch in his parents’ home. One is handwritten and the other typewritten, with additional information. The bottom of all six of these pages is cut off and they do not include the reporting officer’s name. He refers to himself in the report as “writer.” Is the responding officer, Cpl. McNamee, the author of the handwritten report and Officer Uhrig the author of the typewritten report? The top of the handwritten report has “Uhrig” written on it; maybe it was assigned to him instead of McNamee. Without the bottom lines of these pages, we have to guess.
For more on McNamee, see for example–https://catherinebroad.blog/2020/08/27/bloomfield-township-police-department-corporal-richard-james-mcnamee-dob-12-21-29-dod-6-13-96/.
The handwritten report indicates that “the writer” learned from the Busch’s maid that she could not enter the house with her key because “the nite latch was locked from the inside.” “Writer” spoke with the maid and with Chris Busch’s brother Charles, who was present at the scene.
“Writer” describes trying to gain entry by breaking the glass out of the storm door on the west side of the house. Unsuccessful, writer went back with Charles to the front door and forced the front door open, breaking the chain lock from the wall. They (presumably McNamee and Charles) proceeded to Chris’ bedroom and found his rotting corpse.
As described in the handwritten report, “writer” then “made a check of the home inside & out finding all doors & windows had been locked from the inside except the door from the garage it was standing open but the outside overhead doors were closed.” This door was wide open. Nobody thought to check the overhead garage doors or the adjacent garage side door to gain entry before breaking the front door latch. If “writer” was indeed McNamee, he may well have been in that basement before. “All good down here except for that wide open door–weird.”
As I have noted before, the typewritten report indicates that family friend W. Aitken was also present in the home during the investigation.
The report also indicates, as we have long known, that liars/cowards/incompetents John Davis and Ron Pierce of the OCCK Task Force arrived within the hour, seeing as there was a diorama of evidence implicating or attempting to implicate Chris Busch as the OCCK. If these task force members ever reported back to anyone in writing, it certainly wasn’t contained in the MSP’s FOIA responses.
I remind you that Det. Cory Williams with Livonia PD and later the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, attempted on numerous occasions to speak with these two men as part of the investigation into Busch. These fucks actively avoided Det. Williams and one had his wife run defense for him on the phone. You are both complicit in this coverup as far as I’m concerned. Rot in Hell with your pal L. Brooks Patterson.
After rereading the incident reports, I had to go looking for the photos from this un-crime scene. I had forgotten there were FOIA hoops to jump through at every turn. First, the initial FOIA documents of photos from the scene were Xeroxed, black and white, and were redacted. My dad then asked for unredacted copies, which were sent in black and white. I believe it was Kristine’s sister who requested color copies of the photos, which when received were in color and more numerous, but back to being redacted.
Black and white, unredacted, includes open door from lower level:
Here are three pages from a report prepared for our family by a friend who is retired law enforcement. One page observes that there is no evidence of an attempted access via the kitchen/west door as described in the handwritten report. The next two pages make interesting observations about the wide-open door leading outside from the garage.
Maybe W. Aitken was there for moral support for Charles. Maybe he was there to report back to H. Lee. Maybe he was there to help ensure this suicide investigation was cut and dried and did not involve any deep search of the house or the basement. I’d hate to begrudge someone a friend at a time like this, but interesting that Aitken was there during the investigation. “Personal friend of the family.”
Finally, here are the report pages I refer to above:
If that POS McNamee is the author of the handwritten report, he is the one who “made a check of the house inside & out.” Somehow that is not very reassuring.
***Update: A reader let me know that William Aitken, the “personal friend of the family,” lived three houses south of the Busch residence at 151 Overhill Road.
https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/william-aitken_id_G5266133428523525497
He was an executive for the General Motors Overseas Division.
His obituary mentions he was a member of the GM Senior Men’s Club. According to the reader, many of the highest level GM executives were in this club. I think he was there to report back to H. Lee, who was in Europe with his wife Elsie when this went down.
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