According to investigators, a woman was sitting inside her car at Waterford Oaks County Park when Teschler allegedly pulled up next to her in an SUV. Police say he got out of his SUV with his pants down, opened the woman’s car door and began fondling himself.  This was early afternoon on Saturday in an Oakland County park.  Police searched Teschler’s car and described finding zip ties and duct tape.

Sterling Heights man charged for exposing himself at Waterford Oaks County Park

https://www.wxyz.com/news/sterling-heights-man-arrested-after-alleged-indecent-exposure-at-waterford-oaks-county-park

At the arraignment, Teschler’s attorney told the court his client has no prior criminal record, is married and with children, serves as a volunteer at St. John Lutheran Church and School in Fraser, and sits on the school board.  It sometimes seems these factors are a get-out-of-jail free card.  Too bad they don’t trump jacking off in public in someone’s face, with zip ties and duct tape at the ready.

The old “wife and kids” and church-goer defense.  Get real.

The Michigan State Police maintains the sex offender registry database in Michigan.  In response to a Michigan Supreme Court order, the agency has begun removing the names of sex offenders convicted of crimes prior to July 1, 2011.  As of last Friday, 20,000 names have been removed from a database of 43,000 offenders.

https://www.michigan.gov/mspnewsroom/news-releases/2026/09/11/sor-compliance-official-statement

As described below, the 1995 Michigan sex offender registry legislation was amended twice, in 2011 and in 2021.  Both revisions were determined by courts to be constitutionally unsound.

https://www.wilx.com/2026/09/12/michigan-supreme-court-rules-state-cannot-enforce-sex-offender-registry-law-against-some-longtime-registrants/

Sex offender registries have long been challenged.  The ACLU has been challenging the Michigan law for over a decade.

Retroactive Sex Offender Registration Law

It has long been acknowledged that sex offender registries do not work as well as they could, and that “over-registration and overly restrictive rules on all those who are registered may do more harm than good.”

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/rethinking-sex-offender-registries

A reader had some very interesting observations about the pruning of the sex offender registry in Michigan.  Take a look:

All of these legal proceedings over the years that led to this decision is beyond the scope of my intelligence right now.  And I am sure there are many offenders that probably were railroaded, and did not deserve being placed on the registry.   But what a great opportunity to remove one of their own in law enforcement.  We know the cover-up in the OCCK case seems to be continuing with the children of the prosecutors, and police officers.  But now these same people are assisting others to continue their evil ways.  Bought off or protecting their own.

One who no longer is on the list is William Hackel II.  Former Macomb County (MI) Sheriff, father to New Baltimore Michigan Judge William Hackel III, and father to current Macomb County Executive (and former Macomb County Sheriff) Mark Hackel.  In 2000 the father was convicted  of raping a woman while  they  attended  a  conference  of  the  Michigan  Sheriff’s  Association  held  at  a  casino  resort.  He faced from 3 to 15 years in prison on two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.  He served only a few years.  Hackel became MC Sheriff in 1977.  A significant year in the OCCK case.  I don’t know if this means anything or just a coincidence.  But he was the Sheriff when Richard McNamee was arrested in 1982 in Mount Clemens for CSC.

The ACLU link indicates in 2020 Federal Judge Robert Cleland ruled in favor of the class action law suit which challenged the sex offender registry law.  Cleland was born in St. Clair, Michigan. He was in private practice in Port Huron, Michigan from 1972 to 1975 (think Richards & Tazelaar). He was a county assistant prosecuting attorney of Port Huron from 1972 to 1980, serving as chief assistant from 1977 to 1980 (1977, think OCCK).  He was elected prosecuting attorney of St. Clair County, Michigan in 1980, and was re-elected twice, serving in that position from 1981 to 1990.   

Cleland must have replaced Peter Deegan who would not issue warrants for Frank Shelden because he wanted to wait until the Shelden investigation was completed.  And of course Washtenaw County prosecutor would not issue arrest warrants on Shelden because he wanted to see if St. Clair County would issue a warrant (Page 153 The Snow Killings).  I’m not even going to speculate on Deegan’s son Peter’s alliances, but I could.  He was nominated to become a U.S. Attorney by President Donald Trump, Deegan was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on September 14, 2017, and was asked to resign after Biden was elected.

Just some observations

A reader wrote me about the recent updated compilation/analysis of OCCK composite drawings.  They have researched child abductions in Michigan from the years 1965-1985, and they had this to add to the discussion:

I thought your reader’s posting on the composites was terrific and, even more than that, thought-provoking.  So here are a couple of doppelgangers that really struck me as I was doing research on child abductions 1965-1985 in Michigan.

Composite #1 (attached) is of the suspect in the June 17, 1970 abduction and vicious rape of a 6 year old girl in Gross Pointe (Wayne County).  She was walking home from Ferry School and was forced into the small black car of the suspect who drove her to Jefferson Beach Marina on Lake St. Clair, struck her several times, dragged her into a dry-docked cabin cruiser, and raped her.  He then fled. The girl was admitted to St. John’s Hospital in “critical condition” with injuries that required surgery.  She described the suspect as in his late 20s, heavy set, with dark hair long in the back, a day’s growth of beard, and wearing work clothes.  The composite was widely and often published back in the day, but the case remains unsolved.  Does it bear a resemblance to composites #1 and 2 in the posting?

Composite #2 (attached) is of the suspect in the abduction and rape of a 6 year old girl in Albion (Calhoun County) on Nov 16, 1973.  She was grabbed while walking home from school, raped, and driven around for hours before being let out of his small light green car.  Her injuries required surgery.  The suspect came to the hospital while she was recuperating and fled when she started screaming.  The case remains unsolved.  Hospital personnel described him as being in his 20’s, 5’6-5’7, thin, with light brown hair and blue eyes.  He might bear a resemblance to composite #10 in the posting.

Composite #3 (attached) is of the “Troy Molester” who abducted and sexually assaulted, or attempted to, as many as 40 young boys in Oakland and Macomb Counties during 1980.  The rather cartoonish composite was first posted in September 1980.  He was described as 19-25 years old, 135-145 pounds, with dark brown hair and a moustache.  He bears a slight resemblance to one of the “alternate looks” of composite #1 in the posting, which was acknowledged by someone who was affiliated with the OCCK Task Force, but he was summarily dismissed as a suspect in that case for reasons that were not explained in the media.