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The Snow Killings ~ Over the course of 13 months in 1976 & 1977, four children were abducted, abused in captivity, and murdered. The Oakland County MI Child Killing Task Force was launched in 1977 -the largest manhunt in the US at the time, but the Task Force failed to make a single arrest. Why?
In July of 1976, as the Task Force was investigating the snow killings, Gerald Richards, an elementary school gym teacher, was arrested for child pornography. Richards told police about a massive pedophile network that was financed by Francis Sheldon, an affluent scion. Sheldon bought Fox Island where children were flown in and out of, pandered and also filmed. Sheldon fled after Richards edified the police about him, and he jumped from country to country, avoiding extradition with the help of his family’s money and lawyers. The Task Force, however, didn’t investigate whether or not there was a link between Sheldon’s network and the *snow killings.*
The case gathered dust for more than 30 years, when Detective Cory Williams became the lead detective on the case. Williams was a detective for the Livonia Police Department—Livonia is a suburb of Detroit. Williams was 15 years old when the 3rd victim, Kristine Mihelich, went missing, and he was the son of a detective who had worked the snow killings case.
In 2005, Cory Williams was assigned to investigate a 13-year-old cold case murder that he ultimately solved: Richard Lawson was the murderer and an inveterate pedophile, too. Vying for leniency, Lawson discussed the child prostitution and pornography network operating near Detroit. Lawson told Williams that he and others were pandering children to automobile executives in the suburbs.
Lawson also coughed up the name of Ted Lamborgine who had been indicted for molesting underage 12 yr old boys. He was arrested in 2007 and given 3 life sentences. Lamborgine failed a polygraph on the snow killings, but he refused to help police solve the crimes.
Patrick Coffey was a childhood friend of Tim King’s, the fourth murdered child. He had become so traumatized by Tim’s murder that he became a polygraph examiner. In July of 2006, Patrick gave a presentation to the American Polygraph Association in Las Vegas, and Larry Wasser was sitting in the audience. Wasser had been the president of the Michigan Association of Polygraph examiners. After Patrick’s presentation, Wasser introduced himself to Patrick.
Patrick told Wasser why he became a polygraph examiner. Wasser was acutely aware of the snow killings, and he disclosed that he polygraphed a man who confessed to the murders. In divulging that information, Wasser realized that he had violated attorney-client privilege.
Wasser quickly fell silent, but Patrick rushed to the phone, and told his family he had a lead on the killer of Tim King. Wasser fought a subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court, and it took nearly two years to determine the suspect Wasser had pegged—Christopher Busch.
Christopher Busch had previously been indicted for child molestation four times, and lived within a 5-mile radius of where the four children’s bodies were found.
Years earlier in 1977, a fellow predator and friend of Christopher Busch, Greg Greene, had been arrested for molesting underage boys. Greene also matched a police sketch of a man talking to Tim King before his abduction.
When Greene was interrogated, he confessed that Busch had murdered Mark Stebbins, the first victim of the snow killings. Busch was picked up for questioning. When asked where he picked up children, Busch cited the first 3 abduction sites in chronological order.
The Task Force was alerted to Busch, and Assistant District Attorney of Oakland County Richard Thompson interviewed Busch and Greene. Thompson was adamant that Busch should not receive any plea deals. But Busch merely received probation for four counts of raping minors. Thompson maintains that he didn’t remember the name Christopher Busch and disavows interrogating him.
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During the time of Busch and Greene’s arrest, L. Brooks Patterson was the District Attorney of Oakland County, and he was running for the United States Senate. Keenan surmises that when Busch was arrested, Brooks sought to curry favor with an influential and powerful constituent: Christopher Busch’s father, H. Lee Busch, a senior financial director for GM, by offering to protect his son. Subsequent evidence was found demonstrating that the polygraph taken by Christopher Busch was doctored in order to exonerate him of the murders.
Keenan also discovered that Patterson received a $10,000 contribution for his Senate campaign from Albert Thompson who was the father of one of the detectives working the case. Thompson was a retired auto assembly line worker living on a small pension and could hardly afford that sum of money. Thompson’s check was deposited at the same time Christopher Busch’s lawyers were pleading for leniency, and Busch received leniency to the third power.
Keenan believes that protecting Christopher Busch in exchange for a campaign donation from his father seemed like a minor transgression to the prosecutors, because they thought Busch was merely a molester, not a child murderer.
However, when Tim King was murdered after Busch’s release, the prosecutors probably realized that they had essentially freed a child murderer. Thus began the destruction of evidence, false statements to the media, and the full throttle cover-up. The community was kept in the dark about the malfeasance of the Oakland County prosecutor’s office and the families of the victims would be traumatized for decades without resolution.
In late November 1978, a year after the child murders stopped, Christopher Busch was found dead in his home from an ostensible self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. But the evidence bellied the police cover story, because the suicide had been so obviously staged. There was no blood spatter on the walls and his sheets were pulled up as if he were sleeping. There was also no gun powder residue on his hands. Bush’s body was cremated 2 days later. Within a month of the suicide, the Task Force closed, declaring it was out of money.
Busch’s polygraph about the snow killings was doctored to exonerate him, and Christopher Busch’s friend, John Hastings, egregiously failed a polygraph on the snow killings case in 2009. The polygraph examiner declared that there was no way Hastings didn’t have involvement in the snow killings. But law enforcement never followed up with him.
James Gunnels was a 13-year-old victim of Busch who also became a perp. His mitochondrial DNA was found to have the same consistency of a hair found on murder victim Kristine Mihelich. Gunnels also failed a polygraph on Mihelich’s murder, but he refused to talk about it.
L. Brook Paterson never relinquished his power in Oakland County. After 16 years as the Oakland County prosecutor, he was elected to the office of Oakland County Executive and served in that capacity until his death in 2019. Both positions allowed Patterson to be the ultimate gatekeeper of his own crimes.
Although the snow killings were pinned on Cristopher Busch, he may not have been the lone murderer. Two failed polygraphs, an eye witness account, and mitochondrial DNA may, respectively, link Ted Lamborgine, John Hastings, Greg Greene, and James Gunnels to the murders of the four children.
A commonality among the Epstein and Franklin networks and the network producing the snow killings was that the pedophiles could be extremely sadistic. One Epstein victim told me that one of her perpetrators was so violent that she had to be hospitalized. Two victims of the Franklin network discussed witnessing the homicides of children
A second commonality among the three networks is that they were covered up. According to state and federal law enforcement, the Franklin network never existed. And although the existence of the Epstein network has been acknowledged by law enforcement, none of the perpetrators, with the exception of Ghislaine Maxwell, have been prosecuted. So for all intents and purposes, the Epstein network has been covered up, too. The snow killings would’ve been immaculately covered up if two polygraph examiners didn’t have a chance meeting at a 2006 conference of the American Polygraph Association in Las Vegas.
#politics
In July of 1976, as the Task Force was investigating the snow killings, Gerald Richards, an elementary school gym teacher, was arrested for child pornography. Richards told police about a massive pedophile network that was financed by Francis Sheldon, an affluent scion. Sheldon bought Fox Island where children were flown in and out of, pandered and also filmed. Sheldon fled after Richards edified the police about him, and he jumped from country to country, avoiding extradition with the help of his family’s money and lawyers. The Task Force, however, didn’t investigate whether or not there was a link between Sheldon’s network and the *snow killings.*
The case gathered dust for more than 30 years, when Detective Cory Williams became the lead detective on the case. Williams was a detective for the Livonia Police Department—Livonia is a suburb of Detroit. Williams was 15 years old when the 3rd victim, Kristine Mihelich, went missing, and he was the son of a detective who had worked the snow killings case.
In 2005, Cory Williams was assigned to investigate a 13-year-old cold case murder that he ultimately solved: Richard Lawson was the murderer and an inveterate pedophile, too. Vying for leniency, Lawson discussed the child prostitution and pornography network operating near Detroit. Lawson told Williams that he and others were pandering children to automobile executives in the suburbs.
Lawson also coughed up the name of Ted Lamborgine who had been indicted for molesting underage 12 yr old boys. He was arrested in 2007 and given 3 life sentences. Lamborgine failed a polygraph on the snow killings, but he refused to help police solve the crimes.
Patrick Coffey was a childhood friend of Tim King’s, the fourth murdered child. He had become so traumatized by Tim’s murder that he became a polygraph examiner. In July of 2006, Patrick gave a presentation to the American Polygraph Association in Las Vegas, and Larry Wasser was sitting in the audience. Wasser had been the president of the Michigan Association of Polygraph examiners. After Patrick’s presentation, Wasser introduced himself to Patrick.
Patrick told Wasser why he became a polygraph examiner. Wasser was acutely aware of the snow killings, and he disclosed that he polygraphed a man who confessed to the murders. In divulging that information, Wasser realized that he had violated attorney-client privilege.
Wasser quickly fell silent, but Patrick rushed to the phone, and told his family he had a lead on the killer of Tim King. Wasser fought a subpoena all the way to the Supreme Court, and it took nearly two years to determine the suspect Wasser had pegged—Christopher Busch.
Christopher Busch had previously been indicted for child molestation four times, and lived within a 5-mile radius of where the four children’s bodies were found.
Years earlier in 1977, a fellow predator and friend of Christopher Busch, Greg Greene, had been arrested for molesting underage boys. Greene also matched a police sketch of a man talking to Tim King before his abduction.
When Greene was interrogated, he confessed that Busch had murdered Mark Stebbins, the first victim of the snow killings. Busch was picked up for questioning. When asked where he picked up children, Busch cited the first 3 abduction sites in chronological order.
The Task Force was alerted to Busch, and Assistant District Attorney of Oakland County Richard Thompson interviewed Busch and Greene. Thompson was adamant that Busch should not receive any plea deals. But Busch merely received probation for four counts of raping minors. Thompson maintains that he didn’t remember the name Christopher Busch and disavows interrogating him.
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During the time of Busch and Greene’s arrest, L. Brooks Patterson was the District Attorney of Oakland County, and he was running for the United States Senate. Keenan surmises that when Busch was arrested, Brooks sought to curry favor with an influential and powerful constituent: Christopher Busch’s father, H. Lee Busch, a senior financial director for GM, by offering to protect his son. Subsequent evidence was found demonstrating that the polygraph taken by Christopher Busch was doctored in order to exonerate him of the murders.
Keenan also discovered that Patterson received a $10,000 contribution for his Senate campaign from Albert Thompson who was the father of one of the detectives working the case. Thompson was a retired auto assembly line worker living on a small pension and could hardly afford that sum of money. Thompson’s check was deposited at the same time Christopher Busch’s lawyers were pleading for leniency, and Busch received leniency to the third power.
Keenan believes that protecting Christopher Busch in exchange for a campaign donation from his father seemed like a minor transgression to the prosecutors, because they thought Busch was merely a molester, not a child murderer.
However, when Tim King was murdered after Busch’s release, the prosecutors probably realized that they had essentially freed a child murderer. Thus began the destruction of evidence, false statements to the media, and the full throttle cover-up. The community was kept in the dark about the malfeasance of the Oakland County prosecutor’s office and the families of the victims would be traumatized for decades without resolution.
In late November 1978, a year after the child murders stopped, Christopher Busch was found dead in his home from an ostensible self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. But the evidence bellied the police cover story, because the suicide had been so obviously staged. There was no blood spatter on the walls and his sheets were pulled up as if he were sleeping. There was also no gun powder residue on his hands. Bush’s body was cremated 2 days later. Within a month of the suicide, the Task Force closed, declaring it was out of money.
Busch’s polygraph about the snow killings was doctored to exonerate him, and Christopher Busch’s friend, John Hastings, egregiously failed a polygraph on the snow killings case in 2009. The polygraph examiner declared that there was no way Hastings didn’t have involvement in the snow killings. But law enforcement never followed up with him.
James Gunnels was a 13-year-old victim of Busch who also became a perp. His mitochondrial DNA was found to have the same consistency of a hair found on murder victim Kristine Mihelich. Gunnels also failed a polygraph on Mihelich’s murder, but he refused to talk about it.
L. Brook Paterson never relinquished his power in Oakland County. After 16 years as the Oakland County prosecutor, he was elected to the office of Oakland County Executive and served in that capacity until his death in 2019. Both positions allowed Patterson to be the ultimate gatekeeper of his own crimes.
Although the snow killings were pinned on Cristopher Busch, he may not have been the lone murderer. Two failed polygraphs, an eye witness account, and mitochondrial DNA may, respectively, link Ted Lamborgine, John Hastings, Greg Greene, and James Gunnels to the murders of the four children.
A commonality among the Epstein and Franklin networks and the network producing the snow killings was that the pedophiles could be extremely sadistic. One Epstein victim told me that one of her perpetrators was so violent that she had to be hospitalized. Two victims of the Franklin network discussed witnessing the homicides of children
A second commonality among the three networks is that they were covered up. According to state and federal law enforcement, the Franklin network never existed. And although the existence of the Epstein network has been acknowledged by law enforcement, none of the perpetrators, with the exception of Ghislaine Maxwell, have been prosecuted. So for all intents and purposes, the Epstein network has been covered up, too. The snow killings would’ve been immaculately covered up if two polygraph examiners didn’t have a chance meeting at a 2006 conference of the American Polygraph Association in Las Vegas.
#politics
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