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When I posted this YouTube video earlier today, I couldn’t even comment or find the words for a post title because I was simultaneously relieved for the family of Deborah Kennedy and outraged by the contrast to the handling of the OCCK case. I knew readers would get it.
And somebody did get it. A reader just sent me this link to a YouTube video posted three hours ago by WXYZ Detroit about 2003 reporting by Heather Catallo regarding the evidence in the OCCK case. The reader asked, as did people in the comment section, why this 2003 video would be posted today–23 years later.
Consider this: Southfield PD announced an arrest in the 1997 murder of Deborah Kennedy this morning. The chief of police described advances in fingerprint analysis as well as better DNA testing of evidence found under Deborah’s fingernails left there in the struggle for her life. What a sad and disappointing parallel to the OCCK case, as evidenced by this 2003 reporting by Heather Catallo. The cops tell her 23 years ago there’s new ways to test fingerprints and DNA and they are allegedly all over it.
In 2003, the OCCK case was about the same vintage as the Kennedy case is today. And yet another 23 years have passed since that reporting and the MSP and the county have nothing more to show for all that hyping of DNA evidence and genetic genealogy. I believe there were fingerprints and palm prints in the OCCK case, but I can’t recall if they were just partial or where they were found. There was some fuck up, as I recall, in the handling of these prints. (Shocker.) Also, in spite of L. Brooks Patterson’s haste to ship off Kristine’s clothing and boots to some new-fangled fingerprint analyzer in Ontario, Canada, the loudmouth never reported back on whether there were any findings or conclusions from that examination. (But I bet this Canadian scientist’s DNA is all over Kristine’s coat and boots.)
Thanks to the reader who sent this link. It’s no surprise at all that this 2003 news clip was posted today. Somebody gets it.
Always nice to hear a “cold case” getting solved. Unfortunately for many of us in this “club” also very frustrating. When and if will we ever be on the “cold case solved” list. 😢