John J. Ahern was a neighbor of H. Lee Busch in Bloomfield Village, a wealthy one-mile enclave just outside Birmingham.
Ahern was the director of security for GM when Chris Busch wound up wrapped in a cocoon of blankets with a gunshot between his eyes at 3310 Morningview Terrace.
Also, this excellent YouTube video reminded me that both John Hastings (same age as Chris Busch), 200 Tuckahoe Road, and his father (executive at car industry-adjacent Zollner), 202 Tuckahoe Road, both had tips turned in on them in the wake of my brother’s abduction and murder.
And, the friendly neighborhood cop, Corporal Richard McNamee, was a pedophile. https://www.thesnowkillings.com/post/why-are-we-just-learning-this-now-a-pedophile-cop-on-patrol-during-the-height-of-the-occk.
Quite the little enclave.
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When the son of Robert C. Stempel (Director of Engineering for GM’s Chevrolet Division) was kidnapped in 1975, Ahern was who he called after receiving a ransom call. Ahern then phoned the Bloomfield Hills Township Police, who then notified the FBI and State Police. As reported in the November 14, 1975 Detroit News.
GM created the position Director of Security, in December of 1958.
Prior to this new position being created, it appears GM had Directors of Plant Protection.
In June, 1958 GM announced that James D. Taylor was named Director of Plant Protection for GM. Taylor was a native of Port Huron, and attended Mount Clemens High School and the University of Michigan. He began his GM career in 1933, and had a famed World War II Army career before returning to GM. He retired in 1969, and resided on Middlebury Street in Birmingham. He passed away 9/30/1979 at age 74.
Just 6 months later, GM created the position Director of Security, and hired John Joseph Ahern. Ahearn was considered an expert throughout the country in the fields of fire protection and safety engineering. He worked as a fire protection engineer with the Michigan Inspection Bureau and as a special agent for an insurance company before joining the U.S. Ordinance Department in 1942. He began consulting for GM in 1953 in fire protection. Ahern accepted the Director of Security position in December, 1958, effective on January 1, 1959.
In 1963, Ahern was President of the American Society for Industrial Security when he was honored in Washington D.C. The reception guest list included Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Local Detroit attendees included James D. Taylor, Charles Ghent, Louis G. Seaton (GM Chief Labor Negotiator and Vice-President in charge of Personnel) H.S. McFarland (GM Assistant Director of Personnel Relations), and George Jacoby (GM director of personnel service).
Some time later, and before 1971, Ahern had under him an Associate Director of Security, Charles Edward Ghent. Ghent was born in Alpena, Michigan May 17, 1911, and passed away on June 22, 2001.
Ghent attended Northwestern High School, Wayne State University, and the Detroit College of Law. He joined the FBI and was assigned to field offices in New York, Boston, Chicago and Detroit. Charles left the FBI in 1955 and worked for General Motors central personnel staff.
A November, 1955 article states Ghent was working on a top secret mission for GM as an ex-FBI agent. He was elected President of the Michigan Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. He served until September, 1960, when Lewin Echlin Jr. (Lawyer and Ford Motor Company Supervisor of Investigation Services) is elected to replace him. Ghent resided in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Birmingham and West Bloomfield throughout his career.
John Ahern retired from GM as Director of Security in 1978. He continued doing consulting work afterwards and passed away May 26, 1993 at age 78. He resided at 3485 Bradway Blvd Bloomfield Hills. This is a 5-minute walk to 200 Tuckahoe, and a 7-minute walk to 3320 Morningview Terrace.
Ahern’s son Owen worked for General Motors for thirty-seven years in Worker’s Compensation, Labor Relations, Fire, and Safety. He was the Safety Director and the Fire Chief for Pontiac Motor Division. After retirement, he established the Worker’s Compensation Department for Flint Community Schools. He went on to work in Risk Management for Detroit Public Schools. Owen was a volunteer firefighter for twenty-two years with the Bloomfield Hills Fire Department and the Waterford Fire Department.
Others that served in the Director of Security role after Ahern include C. G. Keele, and Gordon Kettler.
Thanks, G-Man. Since 2007–almost 20 years–I have heard/read versions of extremely disturbing rumors about high ranking GM officers and employees and child rape/CSAM, and almost common knowledge among law enforcement of the crimes of Chris Busch in and around Birmingham, beginning with indecent exposure to minors and escalating from there. There is no way in hell GM Security and GM Legal didn’t know about this “stuff.” Those two departments are the “clean up” when shit goes sideways. I bet Legal had their hands full with the Busch boys. Security is usually the dirtier arm of a corporation and god only knows what they did to keep GM’s reputation “intact.”