Lifelong pedophile Arch Sloan, 83, is living out his life sentence for the 1983 rape of a little boy at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian, Michigan. He was sentenced in Wayne County on January 29, 1985.
Longtime readers of my blog know that Sloan was in the spotlight in 2012 after it was made public that hair evidence from his 1966 Bonneville, obtained soon after Mark Stebbins was murdered, was retested for DNA. His sketchy life and disgusting criminal past is detailed in The Snow Killings by Marney Keenan, along with his brushes with the OCCK task force. He has long been in the background of the child killings.
Sloan apparently told a cellmate he was in the same exclusive club as other prolific killers, that he was the OCCK and that he would never be caught because he covered his tracks so well. Later he had less to say to OCCK investigators.
I’m not going to circle back around to this POS’s claims or the evidence of his involvement in a child sex ring with other scumbags (not directly with the “elites” we know were also involved), or his probable involvement in Mark Stebbin’s abduction; rather I am going to discuss the odds of this freak knowing Chris Busch.
Busch loved to visit his family’s cottage on Ess Lake in Montmorency, Michigan. Preferably only with minor boys.
**A reader made the valid point that those not familiar with northern Michigan might not realize how remote these areas were in the late 70s, and still are.
Arch Sloan was friends with Detroit Police Sgt. Richard Clayton, who frequented his family compound, “El-Rancho Farm” in Montmorency. In fact, Clayton’s relatives told investigators that “Archie” was often at El-Rancho hunting and fishing in the 1970s. He would show up in his old blue pick-up truck with a white camper in the back (which we now know was a torture chamber).
In 1984, Sloan was on the run “until the heat died down” in the wake of the 1983 rape charges. Good buddy Clayton (15 years his senior) was digging around the investigation at DPD. One of his superiors believed that Clayton may have given Sloan a key to the El-Rancho Farm when Sloan’s attorney advised him to “go up north until the heat dies down.”
Clayton’s obstruction seemed so obvious that he was subjected to a Garrity interview and advised that compelled statements made during this internal investigation could not be used against him in a subsequent criminal prosecution. (Garrity v. New Jersey (1967)). He was none too happy about this, and the investigating officer described Clayton as defensive, arrogant, argumentative; that he continued to pry for information about Sloan and that he had little concern about locking up the fugitive rapist Sloan.
Decades later, Clayton’s attorney did not recall representing him but listened to the tape of the Garrity interview. His observation to the OCCK task force members was that Clayton sure sounded like a person with more to hide than simply helping out a family friend.
Clayton died at age 80 on December 28, 2006. In a videotaped interview dated September 1, 2010, Sloan describes Dick Clayton as being his “good friend.”
It’s unclear what Clayton and Sloan got up to aside from hunting and fishing until Sloan took up residence in the Big House. What is clear is that El-Rancho Farm, described as a compound with numerous buildings being constructed on it over the years, was approximately 8.3 miles/15 minutes from the Busch cottage on Ess Lake.
So it really doesn’t matter if Sloan’s relatives were renting on Ess Lake near the Busch cottage before 1978. Sloan was close enough up at El-Rancho with his camper many times before Busch wound up dead in late November 1978. Clayton sounds like he wasn’t exactly an upstanding cop. And he was right there, too. Eight miles from the Busch cottage. Maybe it’s just a coincidence, right? Maybe he dug around the OCCK investigation back in the day, just for kicks.
According to his obituary, he was with the DPD for 31 years and a “lifelong member” of Masonic Lodge #89 of Belleville, MI. And a good friend to a lifelong pedophile, Arch Sloan.
Source: