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Post by Helen Dagner on Jun 27, 2013 0:05:02 GMT -5
Hitch Hikers Guide To Reality Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Profile of the Michigan Child Killer (Babysitter) The Babysitter Serial Killer Profile: Sunday, June 29, 2008
This profile is "retrospective" and is compiled as the predator would have been in 1976 & 77.
Highly Organized Predator: This type of person fits well into society. He is often gregarious and out-going and often gets his way with people because of his manipulative manner. He is a pathological liar and has a chameleon personality. This predator selects his victims from an area which he is perfectly familiar with. He is highly intuitive and very observant.
He selects victims he can control and dominate, he also selects the site of the attack, stalks the victim and researches his craft. The crime scene will reflect controlled rage in the form of ropes, chains, gags or handcuffs present or on the victim. There is often evidence of torture, rape and aggressive act prior to death. This predator doesn't collect trophies in the form of jewelry or other personal items of the deceased. In this case, his trophy is the last breath or a lock of hair probably from the back of his victims heads. This serial killer/predator I believe may inhale the last breath of his child victims. He covets and collects their souls or "life essence".
This organized offender follows the news media and won't communicate with the police through letters or phone calls, not taunting the police and pointing out his superiority. He feels his superiority as self evident. This predator doesn't have the need to communicate in this way however, he derives his "pleasure" from being a mystery and his knowing that the police are, in his estimation, ineffective so this provides joy or an ego boost for himself therefor, there is no reason for him to taunt police as he also views such an act as a laps in security and unnecessary. He desires to be "invisible and legendary", this gives him the illusion of being like a phantom and in his mind, a superhuman creature that invades the nightmares of the public. He enjoys the fear of others and truly believes he is superior yet misunderstood. He longs for greatness and glory but not in a way in which most would as he has already obtained it by his actions. He enjoys his anonymity like wearing a magic cloak of invisibility. This predator seems to know or understand the intimate details of the investigation.
Age: 25-37 Sex: M Race: Caucasian Marital Status/ Adjustment: Married/Divorced
Intelligence: Above average bordering on highly intelligent. This individual has a mind for details with an exacting memory. He is able to use his intelligence to obtain the things he needs or to manipulate people in such a way that they are unaware. He is very insightful and knows how to second guess people. He is often times impatient with those who he deems less intelligent.
Scholastic Achievement/ Adjustment: This individual feels that "schools" are too slow or lacking for his participation. High School diploma at the most or some Community College/Tech School. This individual is a very capable mathematician.
Life Style: Married but estranged while residing with his wife or divorced. He would be controlling and distant to his spouse. He is mascarading as a heterosexual. This individual will travel 50 miles or more to find "gay or homosexual" venues to act out his sexuality.
Rearing Environment: This individual seems to have come from a broken home and is more than likely an only child. This child also suffered sexual abuse from a relative or close family friend from the age of 9 to 15 with an exceptional amount of frequency between the ages of 10 and 12. It is believed that his mother was responsible for the development of his "cleaning fetish" which is visible as an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It would also seem plausible that his mother reinforced the concept that "children are dirty creatures" and therefor she bathed or cleaned him herself well into puberty focusing on his genitals and rectum. His mother knew of his sexual experiences and interjected her religious ideologies into a "ritual" of cleansing her son. It would also seem plausible that his mothers sexual frustrations were acted out on her son. She felt since her son was more desirable to the males in her household she must act upon this in the manner in which she did. The result of the abuse, sexual and ritualistic, has caused this predator to envy so called "normal" families. His mother probably used "sodomy by object" as a form of punishment. This predator is Catholic and more than likely attends services regularly as this will put him in contact with more children. She felt this was an acceptable method of "punishment".
The predators father would have been uneducated or worked as a laborer. He would have been emotionally distant and abusive. The father would have more than likely abused alcohol and display an explosive temper. He would have exercised total control of the household and his focus of attack would have been more than often, his son (predator). His father would also utilize confinement and restraint as forms of punishment which is later acted out in his forced "captivity" of his victims.
Social Adjustment: He has learned at a young age how to keep secrets and to "act" as if normal. He can interact quite well with others around him in social situations but tends to politely avoid group events or social invitations that interfere with his "personal time". This predator can maintain his "lone state" in a room full of crowded people. He has little patience or time for normal social interactions. He will use social occasions in order to target victims. I am quite certain that he has spoken often to his victims parents.
Personality Style / Characteristics: This type of person fits well into society as a fixture or piece of furniture would in a room. He is often gregarious and out-going and often gets his way with people because of his manipulative manner. He is a pathological liar and has a chameleon personality. This individual is likable and helpful. His personality would be disarming and he can gain the trust of others quite easily. He is a good listener and often times provides sound advice to those around him. He is quite good a problem solving but not for himself.
Demeanor: Outgoing but often times withdrawn or paranoid. When withdrawn he will pretend to have a mild illness such as a migraine or a light touch of the flu. He will interact with neighbors who have children but no more than to gain access. He is the sort of neighbor who will wave at his other neighbors and offer a smile as he leaves for work or returns.
Appearance/ Grooming: This predator enjoys his OCD and projects this "cleansing" to his victims not only to remove evidence but to recapture his essence from his victims. This predator is vain but also has a great deal of self hatred or self loathing. His clothes would always been neat and clean and the use of gloves often would also fit his personality profile. He will frequently bathe or shower and this is where he will practice self sexual stimulation and gratification. He also develops his fantasies while bathing or showering. This mans manner of dress will be immaculate and he will select clothing color based on their relationship to "power, authority and trust." A clean cut snappy dresser.
Emotional Adjustment: This individual has blunted emotions. He also has trouble sleeping and struggles with racing thoughts. He gets his "emotional cues" from those around him and is unable to feel compassion or remorse. He is angry that he has to live his life in the closet and his victims represent "innocence" and he feels he has a right to make them suffer for his own projected pain. It angers him that his target child doesn't suffer the same as he has and further feels he must correct this. His rage is controlled and channeled into his abilities and techniques. He derives pleasure from the hunt, the capture, the transporting, securing, manipulating, and forcing his victim to plead.
This predator will more than likely force his victims to beg him for sex with promises of release if they comply. He enjoys this until the victim realizes that a release is not forthcoming, the victim then becomes vocal and rebellious, which he will in response begin the process of death. He chooses suffocation/asphyxiation as it silences the voice and he can control the duration of their suffering and end their life slowly while he savours the moment. This man has a God complex. He too is invisible and forces a form of worship and obedience from his victims. He enjoys having the power over life and death. He is a master manipulator. He will fluctuate from being emotionally immature to mature. He will often times when alone pretend to be a child again and verbalize his internal thoughts during this time. He also is fascinated by the media coverage and overall community fear and monitors this during and after each kidnapping. The reasons for his selection of victims would be that they are representative of children from his past who did not have to suffer as he did. His world was created by adults who abused him and therefor he feels as part of his revenge he is therefor entitled to create a "world" for his victims to suffer in. This predator has contemplated or attempted suicide in his past and more than likely did so with a firearm. The predator although had ideas of suicide did not follow through with it prior to the attacks.
Residence In Relation To Crime Scene(s): This individuals ego allows him to live in close proximity to his victims. He knows the county quite well and more than likely branches out from the center being his place of residence in all directions like an omnipotent being who feels the universe centers around him. He feels he is superior in intelligence and therefor does not fear being caught and is operating near his safe zone. He believes he is in control of his geographical location and has constantly studied it over the years. This (knowledge) would also play a role in the type of employment he would seek and obtain. He enjoys his "power" and "invisibility" as he takes his victims and deposits them close to himself and close to their homes. He will live in a home where he can have a basement or "dungeon". If in town, the house will have privacy fencing or if in a rural setting will have a gated driveway. The home he chooses may be out of character for the neighborhood in which he lives. It would be well kept and "pretentious". This predator carefully calculates time, distance, and the potential of discovery when he selects a victim. He knows their home address, the number of people living in the home and their habits. He feels quite at ease in taking his victims in broad daylight which indicates he has mastered the skill of stalking and plan execution. He also knows that when he deposits a body that all law enforcement will focus on that area therefor he will take his next victim in sequence and away from the deposit area. His movements which include abduction and deposit are similar to chess moves.
Socioeconomic Status: As a child this predator came from a lower scale economic family which would have had parents who abused alcohol and or drugs. He is currently lower middle class (working class) always attempting to clime the financial and social ladder in order to prove he is viable, validated and superior to his humble upbringing. This predator is either in a law enforcement job (sheriffs deputy, i.e.) or trucking/delivery. He has a job which allows him to be either authoritative or non-threatening. He is in fact approachable.
Type of Sexual Perversion or Disturbance: Child rapist, bully, S&M/Bondage practitioner. This individual sees himself as an Alpha wolf, one who dominates and controls and is in no way submissive or passive. He enjoys children because they are easily controlled and represent everything he is not. He chooses children who are alone. He prefers boys but will take a girl simply for the "kill fix". I'm quite certain that he used the girls he took to perform menial chores around the house such as cleaning and preparing him food. He would also punish these female children for the perceived "sins" of his mother. He picks boys who appear to be timid or weak, and all the victims could have been related if we compare their physical features.
The predator may share similar physical characteristics (dating back to his childhood) with the children he took. This man is an emotional and psychological chameleon and once his methods are widely known he may change his method of killing or to "change up" in order to keep his invisibility secure. He will continue to control, torture, rape and kill, but will change his method of disposing of the bodies. Those he really enjoyed, he will bury in the ground or deposit in a body of water, thus giving them "invisibility" as he feels he has, others he will dispose of in a far less decent manner. He has our attention and obtained it in 1976 & 77 and he knows he's kept it since those years. This closeted homosexual pedophile is by now out of the closet as a homosexual but could not be during those years. Being in the closet adds to his frustration and he feels the world is infringing on his sexual rights, this enraged him as much as his perceived "sexual curse".
Anal penetration of his victims is aggressive or violent/forceful. This is to exact the most pain and response from his victims. He enjoys the screaming and pleading. He enjoys having no mercy and the physical resistance to his actions. The movement or resistance thrills him. It reminds him he is controlling a human life by shear force of his power and will. He will utilize a mechanism of suffocation which is familiar to him as he learned this as a child. Possibly a pillow as it is certain that he has hidden is own face in a pillow while being sodomized as a child and wishing he were dead. If he uses a plastic bag it is so he can still view the face which reveals a persons humanity.
Facial expressions and movement of his victims also thrill this predator. He "dehumanizes" his victims during his overall process. He feels he has a right to do these things and they have it coming. He will continue until he is stopped by outside forces or people. He will "migrate" to other hunting grounds and more than likely seek employment that will afford him this freedom. I would recommend that law enforcement overcome "linkage blindness" and seek out similar victims in other jurisdictions. Don't look for identical methods of death or disposal techniques but be more concerned with the physical appearance of the child and age. This predator is a "chameleon" and will change in many ways as he becomes more creative, skilled and self-empowered.
Motive: Thrill killing/God Complex/Egocentric Boosting, Narcissistic & To Inflict Pain On "Normal" Families which he did not have. Sadist. He is enraged by children having happy normal lives, which he did not have. He feels entitled to do the things he does.
Indicators: This individual took the children on either Wednesday or Sunday. These are considered "church days" in the effected community. Only one victim received a "shot gun blast" to the face. This was the only child who was "defiant". She (the victim indicates this type personality due to the fact that she was the runaway.) She was obviously not as obedient and submissive as he desired. He made certain she saw it coming. He wanted her to suffer for defying him but most of all he wanted her to fear him. Posted by HitchhikersGuideToReality at 2:41 PM
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Post by Helen Dagner on Jul 1, 2013 1:05:11 GMT -5
09/29/2010 Barry King Barry King is determined; he is a man on a mission.
Thirty three years after his son, Timmy, was killed by the Oakland County Child Killer, King is intent on following new leads, demanding answers— any and all answers, from the Michigan State Police task force, suing the Oakland County Prosecutor for information related to possible case updates, and contacting the media to help open doors to hopefully crack, and maybe solve, this long-dormant case.
Doors are shutting in his face, one after another, yet King cannot rest. His 11-year old son was murdered, sexually molested, and left for police to find, and he believes there is new information on a suspect, a deceased convicted sex offender who police did not follow through with at the time, or perhaps did not know about, and he wants closure. Now. He no longer cares how many investigators he alienates, or how many attorneys or prosecutors he angers. He is nearing the end of his long life, and his patience has worn thin. He said he believes he knows who killed his son and the three other innocent children, who the man known as the Oakland County Child Killer was, and he wants everyone else to not only know who that man was, he wants law enforcement and the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office to acknowledge it.
For those who lived in the metro Detroit area in the mid to late-70s, suburban innocence was shattered by a never-identified serial killer who preyed on pre-teen boys and girls, snatching them from their neighborhoods, sexually molesting the boys, keeping them for a few days, bathing them so there was no trace of him, and then killing them. Called the Oakland County Child Killer, to this day, the murders are an unsolved mystery that haunts not only the lives of the families of the four children killed at his hands, but of formerly carefree kids and pre-teens who were used to bike riding through communities, stopping to jump on neighborhood trampolines, to play on playgrounds and skateboard down tree-lined streets, and to wave at friendly neighbors. Children used to walking and riding their bicycles home with friends from school suddenly discovered mothers outside their buildings at the end of the school day.
Like the generation before them who hid indoors during the polio epidemic, during 1976 and 1977, the easygoing youth of boys and girls in Oakland County was abruptly cut short, and they were kept indoors to play with only those playmates parents knew very well. Fear gripped parents and kids. Swings and monkey bars around the county hung vacant. Anyone and everyone was suspect.
During a 13-month period, which began on February 15, 1976, when Mark Stebbins of Ferndale was first abducted, and ending on March 22, 1977, when the fourth victim, Timothy King of Birmingham, was found in Livonia, four children were abducted and murdered, their freshly-killed bodies discovered around the area. Before each of the youths were killed, they were held between four and 19 days each.
At the time, the Oakland County Child Killer Investigation was the largest murder investigation in U.S. history, with the FBI joining local law enforcement and the Michigan State Police. To date, despite thousands of leads and dozens of suspects, the killer has never been found.
While there were other murder victims in the county at the time, only four youths were confirmed as victims of the Oakland County Child Killer. They were 12-year old Mark Stebbins of Ferndale, who was last seen leaving an American Legion Hall on the afternoon of Sunday, February 15, 1976. Stebbins had told his mother he was leaving to go home to watch television. He never made it home. His body was found four days later, on Thursday, February 19, neatly laid out in a snowbank in the parking lot of an office building at Ten Mile and Greenfield roads in Southfield.
He had been sexually assaulted with an object, and strangled. Rope marks were visible on his wrists, and he was fully clothed in the outfit he had last been seen in. He had been freshly bathed.
Initially, it was believed to be the work of a one-time deviant. There was no further activity until December 22, 1976, when 12-year old Jill Robinson packed a backpack and ran away from her Royal Oak home following a fight with her mother over making dinner. The next day her bicycle was discovered behind a hobby store on Main Street in Royal Oak.
On the morning of December 26, Jill's body was found in a snowbank on the side of I-75 near Big Beaver Road, in plain view of the Troy Police. She had been killed by a shotgun blast to the face. She was fully-clothed, with her backpack on her back.
Soon again, the killer struck. Kristine Mihelich, 10, was last seen on Sunday, January 2, 1977, around 3 p.m. at a 7-Eleven store on Twelve Mile Road in Berkley while buying a magazine. After a frenzied search for her, a mail carrier discovered her fully-clothed body 19 days later on the side of Bruce Lane in Franklin Village.
Kristine had been smothered, freshly bathed, with her eyes closed and her arms folded across her chest. She also had been placed in the snow, and was laid out in plain view of several nearby homes.
Bloomfield Township psychiatrist Bruce Danto, working with police, felt that the killer was speaking out to him, leaving him a message by placing Kristi's body on Bruce Lane. Several weeks later he received a letter from a man named "Allen," who claimed he was the killer's roommate, and had even helped care for the victims. Shortly thereafter, "Allen" phoned Danto, offering to provide photos in exchange for prosecutorial immunity. They were to meet at a gay bar near Detroit's Palmer Woods, but "Allen" never showed up. Danto made numerous attempts to reach out to "Allen" and to the killer, to no productive avail. In case he was ever approached again, Danto's home and office were observed by undercover FBI officers for the next 18 months.
Despite numerous warnings not to go anywhere on his own, on Wednesday, March 16, 1977, at around 8:30 p.m., 11-year old Timothy King of Birmingham borrowed 30 cents from his older sister, and without telling her, left his home with his treasured skateboard to head to a nearby drugstore, the Hunter-Maple Pharmacy at Maple and Woodward, to buy candy. His parents were having dinner across Woodward at Peabody's Restaurant, and his older siblings were babysitting him. He was last seen leaving the drugstore from the rear exit, which shared a large parking lot with a grocery store, where the current downtown Kroger's is today. Sadly, he was never seen again alive.
There was an all-out search for Timothy which covered the entire metro Detroit area. Barry King went on TV, and made an emotional plea to the Oakland County Child Killer, begging him to release his son unharmed. Timothy's mother, Marion, wrote a letter to the killer that was printed in The Detroit News, stating she hoped he would be released soon so that he could enjoy his favorite meal of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Late on March 22, 1977, two teenagers in a car noticed his body in a shallow ditch along Gill road, just south of Eight Mile Road in Livonia, technically just across the county line in Wayne County. His treasured possession, his skateboard, was placed next to his body.
Timothy had been freshly bathed, his body was still warm and damp, and his clothing had been neatly pressed and washed. He had been sexually assaulted with an object, and suffocated. There were rope marks on his wrists and ankles, signs that he had been tied down.
An autopsy showed that he had eaten fried chicken right before he was killed.
Current Birmingham Chief of Police Don Studt was a Birmingham policeman in 1977, and was randomly assigned to the King household when Timothy was abducted. He investigated the case, basically living in the home for a month. He broke the news to the family when Timothy's body was discovered, and accompanied Marion King to the morgue to identify the body. It is not a time he would like to relive, nor will he discuss it, other than to say it was horrible, and a profoundly difficult time.
Law enforcement knew after the second case, and certainly by the third, that they were dealing with a serial killer. The Michigan State Police led a group of over 200 law enforcement officials from 13 communities, forming a task force devoted solely to the investigation. Soon after Timothy King was abducted, a composite drawing of the suspected kidnapper and his vehicle was released. A woman claimed she had seen a boy with a skateboard talking to a man in a parking lot of the drugstore to which Timothy had gone. The vehicle was reportedly a blue American Motors Gremlin with a white side stripe. Ultimately, law officials would question every Gremlin owner in Oakland County, and every blue Gremlin was reviewed.
"The biggest red herring of all was the blue Gremlin," said Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, who was the Oakland County Prosecutor at the time. "But that was all we had to go on at the time. We were looking at any lead at the time."
The investigators put together a profile of the killer based upon witnesses' descriptions of the man believed to have been seen talking to Timothy King the night he disappeared. He was a Caucasian male with a dark complexion, about 25 to 35 years old with shaggy hair and sideburns. Authorities believed that the killer had a job that allowed him to move around freely, and that he may have appeared to be someone that a child might trust, such as a police officer, clergyman, or a doctor. Law enforcement believed he was likely someone familiar with the area, and had the ability to keep children for long periods of time without arousing neighbors' suspicions.
"It was all hands on deck. It was trying to pull out all stops to prevent another homicide. We had guys come out on their days off," said Patterson.
Although the task force checked out more than 18,000 tips, they never made substantive headway on any of them, and they disbanded in December 1978.
"But homicide cases are always open. There is no statute of limitations on homicides, and they can always go back and be revisited," Patterson pointed out.
The Oakland County Child Killer has never been heard from again.
It's unknown if the killer died in the years since he last made his presence known, moved away, or was incarcerated for other crimes, and that is why he hasn't struck again. Psychologists and profilers say it is unlikely that a sociopath with a proclivity for sexually molesting and killing children would just stop on his own. Patterson said that most people who have been involved in the case in the past believe whoever was the killer is probably dead.
At various times over the last 33 years, the Michigan State Police have had leads they have pursued, all for naught. On February 17, 2005, almost 29 years to the day after Mark Stebbins was abducted, the Michigan State Police re-activated their search and task force, recognizing that new technology and forensic research could hopefully provide new results. They transferred their files, containing over 99,000 names, to their Oak Park outpost and began a renewed search.
Out of their entire database, the only useable item of evidence they came up with is one lone piece of hair that they tested for DNA.
Barry King, whose wife Marion passed away in 2004, stayed close with many of the law enforcement investigators who worked the original Oakland County Child Killer case, such as Michigan State Police Captain Harold Love and Detective Sergeant Dave Robertson, and as it progressed, stayed on top of all new developments. An attorney, he would pass along legal developments as well as interesting or important tips. It was a mutually symbiotic relationship which, unfortunately, never bore the perfect ripe fruit.
Until, King believes, July 2006, when Patrick Coffey, a California polygraph examiner, who had been a childhood friend of the King children, attended an American Polygraph Association conference, and met Lawrence Wasser, a Southfield forensic polygraph examiner. Coffey grew up across the street from the Kings, and has claimed he became a forensic polygraph examiner because of Timothy's murder. Chris King, Timothy's older brother, received a call from Coffey after the conference, telling him that he met an examiner from the Detroit area who had polygraphed the Oakland County Child Killer in 1977 before Timothy had been abducted and killed.
"Coffey told my son Chris that Wasser identified Christopher Busch, a three-time convicted sex offender who was a pedophile, as the person who killed the kids. He said he had polygraphed him in the Stebbins case," said King. "He lived at Maple and Lahser at the time; there had been some mentions of him in The Detroit News. He was the son of a prominent GM executive, and he committed suicide in November 1978."
Christopher Busch was the son of Harold Lee Busch, a high level General Motors executive, and his wife Elsie, who lived on Morningview Terrace in Bloomfield Village. Their son lived with them at that address. Both elder Busch have since passed away. Christopher Busch was in and out of police custody around the time of the Oakland County Child Killings for his involvement with a suspected child pornography ring, and had been previously convicted in pedophile cases.
While he would likely not have driven an AMC Gremlin with a father working for GM, research shows that General Motors had a few similar subcompact cars out at that time, especially the Chevy Monza, introduced in September 1974, in production from 1975 through 1980, which it is possible Busch could have been driving. The Monza also had a hatchback style. The Chevrolet Camaro and the Pontiac Astre had similar body platforms and styles, and were popular models at that time, as well.
Busch and a cohort, Gregory Greene, as well as Vincent Gunnels, were arrested, arraigned and bound over for trial in Flint in February 1977 on multiple charges of criminal sexual contact. They were charged with using gifts, threats and physical force to persuade as many as 75 boys to engage in sodomy, oral sex and lewd photography sessions.
The boys, who ranged in age from 10 to 14, were discarded by Busch, Greene and Gunnels once they reached puberty, according to a police source at the time. Supposedly the men met them by picking them up as hitchhikers and by working as counselors at community service groups and as sports team coaches.
Occurring concurrent with Mark Stebbins abuse and murder, Patterson had the men investigated and polygraphed, although today he does not recall them being serious suspects. It was concluded at the time that neither was a suspect in Stebbins case.
"That name (Busch) really does not ring a bell. It was not on the front burner at the time," Patterson said.
According to Larry Wasser's Detroit attorney, he did polygraph someone for a criminal sexual conduct case at that time, "but it had nothing to do with the Timothy King case," the attorney, who requested to remain nameless, said. He did not specify if Wasser did or did not polygraph Busch.
"The sad thing is, this man (Coffey) started something out of nothing. There is no basis in truth, and he has gotten the family stirred up for nothing," the lawyer said. "He basically made it all up. Maybe he wants recognition, or he wanted to write a book."
Busch was freed on $1,000 cash bond for the extensive alleged crimes in Flint; Greene and Gunnels remained in Genesee County jail in lieu of $75,000 bond, and were sentenced to prison for the crimes. Busch did not serve any jail time for the crimes, although his record showed that he was a convicted sex offender.
Busch's movements are unknown after that time and November 20, 1978, when he committed suicide. According to incident reports from the Bloomfield Township police, they received a call from the Busch's housekeeper who said she cleaned every Monday, that she could not enter because the night latch was locked from inside. Several days' worth of newspapers were piled in front of the door, and she reported that she felt "something was wrong with Mr. Busch."
Busch's brother, Charles, arrived, and with the police, broke the glass to the storm door off the kitchen, eventually gaining access to the house. Charles led the police up the stairs to Christopher's bedroom, where his door was closed. According to the police report, Det. Quarles wrote, "We opened the door and observed the brother in bed with a 22 cal(iber) rifle by his side, lying on his back, obviously dead, and for some time (3-4 days). Victim had apparent gunshot wound to the head, with a rifle found next to the victim, pointing at his head."
The death was ruled a suicide.
Charles Busch informed police his parents were in England, and that he, his wife Nancy, and his two other brothers, John and David, had not noticed any despondency on Chris' part.
However George Enochs, Christopher's Oakland County Probation Officer, possibly for the Flint criminal sexual conduct cases, stated on November 28, 1977 that Christopher had been despondent over "the four cases against him and may have committed suicide because of this."
The report does not elaborate as to what the "four cases against him" were, and on November 29, 1978, the investigation into his death was closed.
Around the same time, perhaps coincidentally, the Oakland County Child Killer ceased all activities, and has not been heard of either.
"It's everyone's belief that Christopher Busch probably did it. But there's no proof. And they're never going to know 100 percent after all these years," said Wasser's attorney.
"Busch is certainly a good lead. But we may never know for sure," said Patterson.
Birmingham Police Chief Studt concurs. "Busch is as good a suspect as any. But am I willing to definitely say it was him? Not until I see some proof."
That is what Barry King wants to see. Because whether or not Patrick Coffey heard it first hand from Larry Wasser, or imagined he did, King believes law enforcement and the Oakland County Prosecutor's office knows things, have evidence, are doing investigations, and are not telling him or any of the other families of the children who were murdered. He has filed suit against the Michigan State Police and the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office, demanding the right to see and know all of the information they know.
"I went 30 plus years without having any worry at all about the fact that the police were doing a good job on this. I don’t sleep as well as I used to. I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about this case and what happened to Tim," says King. He says Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper won’t talk to him and has sent him a letter that she will not, and cannot, release the files on Busch. But King wonders why, since Busch has been dead for years, and he cannot be convicted, why he can't see the file and decide on his own.
In King's lawsuit against the Michigan State Police, it is noted that on October 16, 2009, Deborah Jarvis and Erica McAvoy, Kristine Mihelich's mother and sister, met with Detective Sergeant Garry Gray of the Michigan State Police to discuss the status of Kristine's case, and Gray identified Busch, Green and Gunnels as the current persons of interest in the case, and identified three notebooks, one for each of the men. Gray also showed them photographs of the Busch suicide scene, which included bloody ligatures, and a drawing of a young man.
Both Green and Gunnels were in prison at the time of Timothy King's murder, and may have been at the time of Michelich's as well. King and Stebbins had both been tied down prior to being killed.
Sgt. Gray did not return calls to Downtown Publications.
"The Michigan Constitution, in Article 1, Section 24, says that crime victims have the right to confer with the prosecutor," he said. "I'm suing because I just want to see the file and make up my own mind. After so many years of conjecture, I need to know whether there's been a cover up or a mistake.
"If I see the file," King said, " and see that they're looking at the same facts as I am, and coming to the same, or even a different conclusion than I do, that's fine. I just want to know about Christopher Busch. I want a conversation with the prosecutor, who can finally look me in the eye and tell me how a three-time convicted pedophile never spent a night in jail.
"That's all I want. That's all my family wants."
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has not responded to King's numerous inquiries, and has unsuccessfully attempted to have his lawsuit thrown out. They will meet in court on October 29.
"All I can say is that it is an open and extremely active investigation," said Cooper. "With new techniques and new information, hopefully one day there will be new developments. However, I cannot discuss this publicly. Mr. King knows this cannot be discussed, and he is deferring precious resources with his lawsuit."
In her letter to King, she reiterates that the prosecutor's office is not an investigative agency, and that the policy of the office is to advise their police agencies to keep all developments of their investigations confidential until they are ready to present them to the Prosecutor for possible issuance of charges.
Patterson, the original prosecuting attorney, continues to follow the case that follows him.
"He ought to have access to the files and records. It's not going to do any harm. Who's rights are they protecting?" he asked. "If I was prosecuting attorney, not to start a fight with the current Prosecutor, those files would be sitting on my conference table and Barry would be looking at them. If they're so confidential, then swear King in as an Assistant Prosecutor, or have (Oakland County Sheriff) Mike Bouchard deputize him. There's a million ways to get around it. Personally, that's how I would have approached it."
Patterson said that if a suspect is deceased, it does not prevent the Prosecutor's Office or a law enforcement agency from acknowledging that person's name.
"I do not know of any rules or laws that prevent a deceased suspect’s name from being released or acknowledged. And we're talking over 30 years now," he said.
That may be the change in tone that King has experienced, from an open, collaborative experience with the Task Force and previous administrations at the Prosecutor's Office, to a relationship that is one-sided, and views King and the other family members not as collaborators, but as adversaries who are in the way of them doing their job.
King doesn't care. It's been 33 years. His son Timmy is forever 12 years old; Kristi Mihelich is 10; Jill Robinson, 12; and Mark Stebbins, 12. Family members have grown old, and some have passed away. Siblings have grown up, and had children of their own. It's time to close the family album on the Oakland County Child Killer.
"This was probably the most notorious case, along with Jimmy Hoffa, in my 16 years as Prosecutor. Both made national attention. Hoffa, for who he was. This case, for the four little kids," said Patterson. Both, still unsolved.
Was Christopher Busch the killer? There may never be prosecutorial certainty. But King wants to be able to make up his own mind. And finally find peace.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOGnQnkF5bQ FSPC - 23 Jan 2011 - Context (Josiah Tazelaar) and Hymn #482 flow chart of national connections within boy-lovers community constructed by convicted child molester F. Joe Tazlaar (Boy friend, Mark Schuck, Port Huron) May be found through another B.L. = Gordon M_nnier (alias Laryy K_tsw_ki) of Pontiac, Michigan [pp. 80-81 – Exhibits for a prepared statement of Robert F. Leonard , president-elect, National Association of District Attorneys; Hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives Ninety-Fifth Congress – SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN] THE ARGUS-PRESS, Owosso, Mich., Tues., July 26, 1977 – p. 5 PORT HURON, MICH. (AP) – Josiah Tazelaar, 44, of Highland Park, sentenced to 1-1/2–15 years in prison in St. Clair County Circuit Court by Judge Halford Streeter for sexual offenses involving children in a park over a three day period. Pled guilty in May 1977 to one count of 2nd degree criminal sexual conduct The offenses occurred in June 1975 in a campground south of Port Huron in St. Clair Twp. 8 Josiah M. Tazelaar (79) – Born June 1934 (to be confirmed) Josiah Tazelaar, B.A. in History, 840 Sigsbee, S.E., Grand Rapids, Mich. University of Michigan – Michiganensian Yearbook, (Ann Arbor, MI) Class of 1958, p. 484. www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/University_Michigan_Michiganensian_Yearbook/1958/Page_484.html Baritones: Josiah Tazelaar, Grand Rapids, Michigan University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club Spring Concert, Roster, May 10, 1958 School of Music, Theatre & Dance (University of Michigan) Publications books.google.com/books?id=gF3lAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT191&lpg=PT191&dq=josiah+tazelaar+detroit&source=bl&ots=XulhzfJebU&sig=5cfzK_fAvS7qVXMhR4AzIp8wNZw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Dd7ZUfiCH5Ww4APZiYHwBw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBg ** Jerome Shaffer, … , …., Josiah Tazelaar, … University of Michigan – Michiganensian Yearbook, (Ann Arbor, MI) Class of 1958, p. 301. www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/University_Michigan_Michiganensian_Yearbook/1958/Page_301.html Fort Street Presbyterian Church – Josiah’s Brahm’s Briefings 631 W. Fort Street (at Third Street) Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 961-4533; (313) 961-3617 (Fax); E-mail: info@fortstreet.org www.fortstreet.org/Music/Chorale/Josiah's%20Musings/indexpage.html FSPC (Fort Street Presbyterian Church) YouTube videos by RandyatWayne www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOGnQnkF5bQ Contact and Other Information Present Associated Past/Present/Associated (?) 2925 W. 13 Mile Rd., Apt. 204 Royal Oak, MI 48073 (248) 549-2446 2762 Windemere Rd. Birmingham, MI 48009 (248) 649-5439 505 W. Golden Gate Highland Park, MI 48203 (313) 369-9014 (cell/unlisted) Willem H. Tazelaar – Age 79 (address reverse look-up) FXxxx Xxxxx GXxxx Xxxxxx (313) Xxx Xxxx Bordering Detroit – edge of Palmer Park -----Original Message----- I spent most of Monday trying to reach Josiah Tazelaar -and when it got to the point that I felt like I was having a relationship with his answering service-then I knew the word was out and he must have put me on his NO CALL LIST-Well I had a lot of great questions for him-so thought I would post some of them-In case he wants to call me back with corrections or answers--My first question-are you the OCCK? Do you know who is? I found a connection between you and John McKinney at Palmer Park,would you like to explain that? I found a connection between your Brother and John Hastings,Would you like to comment on that? Then there is the connection to Ted? I guess you know a lot of the same people I have been looking into for years-even recent people -like your connection to Shaffer?? (To Be Continued)
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