23 years in, investigators still pursue justice in short family killings – Henry County Enterprise
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Substack articles have given some idea of what close examination of FOIA documents provided in the Epstein file contain. These documents are a fraction of the file, of course. For example:

This document reminded me of what readers of this blog found upon close examination of the FOIA documents in the OCCK case. Keep in mind that these documents are merely the tip of the iceberg of the documents in these murder cases and that because they have never been digitized no one in law enforcement has ever been able to search the documents in any semblance of an actual complete cold case review.

Not that they would have wanted the evidence of two instances of obstruction of justice made public, or would have pursued either avenue in search of answers. But for the record, here is the first instance of obstruction.

A. Obstruction of Justice by failing to follow up on the polygraphs administered to suspect John Hastings in 2009.

In 2020, long after we had received the 3,411 pages of FOIA documents provided by the Michigan State Police, I started putting all of the FOIA documents and other related case documents I had on my blog. A reader then sent me the following:

Holy fuck, right? I wrote about it in September 2020:

Does this sound like someone who passed a polygraph?

To newer readers I will point out that I have written about my attempts to get all related information–notes, DVDs, reports about these Georgia polygraphs via FOIA requests to the MSP and the Georgia Department of Safety, all to no avail. I have also written about how I documented my subsequent attempts to contact the polygrapher directly and forwarded the information to the current Oakland County Prosecutor.

Nothing. Happened.

In my limited defense, after my dad paid over $11,000 for these documents, he made the penny-wise and pound-foolish decision not to make two more sets of copies for me and one of my brothers to work off of. He would send me a couple of volumes at a time and when I returned them, he would send more. Meanwhile, he was letting journalists, authors and documentarians take the volumes to copy them and return them to his house. He pulled significant documents from the response to work from and did not put them back in sequence. I moved twice during this process and never did get the entire set for quite some time.

I believe this was also in response to the fact that my brother and I did not disclose to him the information from Patrick Coffey about Larry Wasser’s revelations at a 2006 polygraph conference until we had things more locked down late into 2007. We were working with Patrick to try to get Wasser to step up and to prevent Wasser from trying to destroy Patrick’s reputation. And true to predictions, he tried, because that’s who he is and what he is used to doing.

Furthermore, we knew my dad would run right to Det/Sgt Garry Gray at the MSP, who along with Dave Robertson, would have dismissed this lead about Chris Busch as “worthless” and buried it as quickly as possible during one of their stupid dog and pony shows at their offices. He still trusted them at that point. So cringeworthy, the thought still makes my skin crawl. That’s why I contacted Det. Cory Williams, then with Livonia PD, and not the state police with this information.

While my dad later acknowledged we took the right steps, he wanted the first look at those documents and that was fine with me. But this finding about Hastings shows why more eyes on these FOIA responses is much better. As acknowledged in Guarded by Jackals, this FOIA response was a purposeful and strategic mess and as I will address in Part II B, someone had taken some real pains to make illegal redactions. But whoever that someone was, they were not focused on Mr. Hastings and we now know that he should have been shaken down hard after the information the Georgia polygrapher provided Garry Gray.

No one ever circled back on this obviously important information. It was beyond laziness or incompetence. This information was buried, a prime opportunity missed and it was obstruction of justice. I don’t care why it was done. It seriously hindered this cold case investigation. Hastings was a fucking neighbor of Chris Busch, among other alarming red flags, all ignored time and again.

That this manifestly confirmed my strong suspicions about taking the Chris Busch lead to the MSP was of little consolation.

This is why all of the documents in the Epstein case released in partial segments over the past few years should be compiled in one database so the public can look carefully at what has been released. I suspect not much more will ever be released, but do I trust CNN reporters to pick up on the nuances in the documents that have been released? No, I do not.

And while Chris Busch has been whispered over the years to be an FBI informant as an explanation for the ultimate of sweetheart deals around the entire State of Michigan, there is no evidence of this in the FOIA records concerning this prolific pedophile. I have seen two documents that mention him in possible connection with the investigation into N. Fox Island. The dots, if they were ever connected, were buried somehow.

If Busch was a confidential informant to the FBI, I would argue that disclosure of this would not necessarily be prevented by exemption 7(D) or the broader informant exception, but would be addressed on a case-by-case basis. Because he is long dead; any investigation by the FBI into N. Fox was a complete nothing burger; investigations into the other related pedophile rings around the country were over 50 years ago; knowledge of Busch’s status is potentially key to understanding how the OCCK case went sideways; and potential CIs some 50 years later will not be dissuaded by release of Busch’s status, I would argue this is not information that can legitimately be withheld. However, it has probably all been destroyed or at the very least submerged in flood waters.

Can you imagine the FBI response if their boy was involved in killing kids while receiving the benefits of confidential informant status? The pains the Oakland County Prosecutor took in 1977 to make sure there was no connection between Bloomfield Village pedophile Chris Busch and Flint pedophile Greg Greene would pale in comparison. I know it didn’t bother Detroit PD much to have Richard Lawson raping kids as part of his CI status in the 1970s, but the FBI might take a different view if they were relying on Chris Busch to try to take down anybody connected with N. Fox Island.

Stinks, doesn’t it?

An 18-year-old accused of having sex with a 13-year-old pleaded guilty to reduced charges after the law was changed.
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