Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 19, 2011 21:09:14 GMT -5
Has Michigan Law Enforcement been caught with their pants down? I think not. There are, however, some people who want to convince others that certain members of LE were (are still?) involved in some kind of elaborate cover up. These well intentioned (but misguided) people that have new information obtained with a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) filing. The FOIA papers mainly concerned Busch, saying he was indeed a pedophile charged with several sex crimes against children. I can easily understand how some one who has a particular suspect in mind (Busch in this case), could selectively look at things that made their guy look good for the crimes. That's just the normal human tendency to filter and interpret new information in such a way as to fit in with and reinforce an already held belief or feeling. Hell, I've done it myself. At first, I didn't want to believe what John was telling me, so I looked for reason to indicate he was pulling my leg or something (turned out that he wasn't). So, anyway, a few things might make any one of a number of creeps look good for the OCCK, there is always a flaw in the over all picture, as in Busch's case, yeah, he had a few characteristics we would be looking for, but, the fatal flaw in the Busch picture is that BUSCH DIDN'T LIKE OR MOLEST GIRLS. Looks like a gaping hole in the motive for Busch. I applaud the Families efforts to keep pressure on LE, talking to the media and posting on blogs in order to keep the interest up and the investigation alive. I do, however, feel that the cops have been getting a worse rap on this than they deserve. Sure, they made some mistakes (But you gotta' hand it to the killer, he didn't leave them with a whole lot to work with). I think they should have questioned more people than they did and etc, but we all have to remember that the book was written on most of this serial killer business years AFTER the OCCK, and forensics was almost primitive compared with what they have today. That being as it may, no one can question the Cop's dedication, effort and desire to stop the killer. I will say again that I have never found any info that indicates any kind of cover up involving LE, but some still believe it. I guess it's like the Kennedy assassination, you could find enough scraps of unrelated information to make a case for the assassin to be any one from Oswald to the Russians to the Mob to LBJ, or even the CIA.....