On May 24, 1990, Paige Renkowski disappeared without a trace after pulling over in the middle of the afternoon on I-96 just before the Fowlerville exit. Her purse and shoes were still in the car which was found running hours later. Her case remains unsolved. Thirty-five years later, her case is back in the news.
The full interview of Paige Renkowski’s sister, Michele:
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Great interview with the sister. Listening to her talk about all the leads, tips, and stories of the case. I can draw so many parallels to the many OCCK stories. As the sister stated: “All of them can’t be right. But all of them can’t be wrong”
And the possible new suspect is quite a story:
“a man who the prosecutor said had his pilot’s license and who the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office confirms to Local 4 was a reserve officer for its mounted unit at least from 1988-1989. Unfortunately, due to how much time had passed, they were unable to provide further details.”
I guess the Sheriff’s department keeps all these details in the same room as the OCCK documents. And, like another post from today, they just do not want to investigate other officers.
But I really like the Missing in Michigan event where Michigan State Police tells attendees to bring:
“any police reports, x-rays or other identifying documents to update law enforcement digital databases.”
It was a very good interview, I agree G-Man. I do wonder what it must be like to actually have someone to pass a story/tip on to who would even consider it and not throw it in the circular file.
As for the recent stories involving cops, I always ask myself what would happen here if I was the defendant/suspect instead of the cop. Would I get 90 days? Would it take 6 months to arraign me? Would I get 15 strikes before someone said “enough”? Would an agency fuck with a FOIA request made about me to keep it under the radar? Would evidence in my case conveniently be given away to charity during the yearly clean up? Would they lose the bloody nightgown and robe my victim was wearing somewhere between the morgue and the funeral home? Would they “lose” a pipe found at my house which could have been the murder weapon? Would I have a union bully show up to grease the skids for me before my lawyer showed up? Would my coworkers and boss threaten and intimidate witnesses on my behalf or feed a bunch of bullshit to the press? Would my boss contact his favorite reporter to feed her a line of shit on my behalf? Or shit talk other agencies contemplating filing charges? We all know the answer if we aren’t a cop.
I’ve shared here years ago, that I was born in 1981 and that the OCCK case was the first example as a very young kid of my parents telling me to be aware and that there are bad people in this world and be careful.
The second case that has stuck with me to this day is the Piage Renkoski case. I was 9 and remember watching the very first reports of it on the Detroit area news and it was the next big remember after OCCK that there are bad people in this world.
Did anybody else read that Wivell was last season alive at the same park the Renkoski visited on the day she disappeared?
Definitely makes you go “WTF?”.
*“last seen alive…”