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As I discussed in Chapter 39, prior to the March 1, 2010 phone call from Jessica Cooper my family had requested only two documents from the appropriate authorities, the Bloomfield Township Police Department and the Genesee County Circuit Court. In both instances the authorities denied the King family access to this information and then provided […]

In the first letter I have received from Jessica Cooper is dated November 13, 2009 following the one and only meeting with the Oakland County Task Force on October 27, 2009. In this letter she states as follows: “In addition, the publicizing of some information, such as that related to polygraphs is actually a crime.”

The search warrant affidavit (Chapter 8 Exhibit A) prepared by the Oakland County Prosecutor contains two subsections discussing the Christopher Busch polygraph history. They provide as follows: (3) V. “Affidavit has obtained and reviewed a polygraph report prepared by Ralph E Cabot, who at that time was a Michigan State Trooper and a member of

As we noted in chapters 30 & 31 Ted Lamborgine was the first person of more than 300 suspects in the OCCK Case to fail a polygraph examination. This information was made available to the King family in October 2013 when we received additional police reports. The Michigan State Police reports I received on December

Since Jessica Copper, the Oakland County Prosecutor, won’t talk to me about the OCCK case, I am setting forth my questions and conclusions regarding the polygraph situation as follows. 1. In Jessica Cooper’s letter on November 13, 2009, was she warning me that she would bring criminal proceedings against me for any publicity on the

The King Family has received four unrelated reports that the OCCK murderer was the son of an automobile or GM executive. I initially referred to them as urban legends but my children said we lived in the suburbs and therefore I changed the Title to Suburban Legends for this Chapter. Within three or four weeks

The Michigan State Police reports contain one small paragraph reference to Christopher Busch having a suitcase of pornographic photographs on North Fox Island. Since Busch was apparently not indicted for his possession of these pictures this prompted my inquiry of this location. The King Family learned that North Fox Island was an island in Traverse

In my second FOIA Case, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Paul Walton filed a Bill of Particulars which he signed with an accompanying Affidavit dated August 8, 2012, which states in Paragraph 3(k) as follows: (k) To prepare my PowerPoint presentation, detailing the strengths and weaknesses of the ongoing aspects of the OCCK investigation, I spent in

The public body in FOIA cases has both the burden of proof and the burden of going forward to claim any exemption from production of documents. In my second FOIA case the Oakland County Prosecutor told the court she had returned all police reports. Quite obviously, if you do not have a document you cannot

Richard Thompson was the Chief Assistant Prosecutor in Oakland County in 1977 and succeeded L. Brooks Patterson as Prosecutor. He drove to Flint in a snowstorm to attend the polygraph examination of Christopher Busch on January 28, 1977. Thompson attended the examination to determine if Busch was involved in the murder of Mark Stebbins, the