Between February 1976 and March 1977, four children vanished from the suburbs just north of Detroit, in southern Oakland County, Michigan. Mark Stebbins was 12. Jill Robinson was 12. Kristine Mihelich was 10. Timothy King was 11. Each was held for days, fed and cared for, and then killed. Their bodies were left in places where passers-by would find them. All four were last seen within about a mile of Woodward Avenue, the long road that runs from Detroit through the northern suburbs, according to WDIV, the Detroit NBC station that has covered the case for decades.
The search for whoever was responsible became, by the accounts of WDIV and WXYZ, the largest investigation of its kind in the United States at that time. It changed how a generation of Detroit-area parents raised their children. Fifty years later no one has been charged. Men have been named as suspects, persons of interest and leads; hairs have been tested and a body exhumed; families have gone to court for the files. In February 2026 the Michigan State Police said the case remains open, and the Oakland County sheriff said his detectives still ask whether new tools can be brought to bear on it.
The four children came from four neighboring cities: Ferndale, Royal Oak, Berkley and Birmingham. WDIV's case summary describes three of them as children of divorced parents who lived with their mothers, and Timothy King as the son of a married couple; all four families were Roman Catholic. They were not linked to one another in life.
What linked them, in investigators' eyes, was a pattern. According to WDIV's summaries, all were last seen within a mile of Woodward Avenue, between 9 Mile and 15 Mile roads. All were fed and cared for while they were missing. Each was bathed, or made to bathe, before death. Each body was left in the open, in clothes the child had been wearing, in a place where it would be found quickly. WDIV notes that all of the related killings took place on snowy days; a later book about the case is called The Snow Killings.
Three of the children died of suffocation or smothering; Jill Robinson was shot.
Mark Stebbins was a seventh-grader at Lincoln Junior High School, 4 feet 8 inches tall and about 100 pounds. WDIV, drawing on case records, describes him as quiet and a good student who tended to keep to himself. His parents were divorced, and he lived with his mother.
On the afternoon of February 15, 1976, Mark was at a veterans' hall in Ferndale. At about 1:30 p.m. he called his mother to say he was heading home. He never arrived. His mother reported him missing to Ferndale police at 11 p.m.
Four days later, on February 19, a businessman crossing a parking lot at a shopping center in Southfield saw what he first took for a mannequin. It was Mark, dressed in the jacket and jeans he had been wearing when he disappeared. A man who had walked a dog through the same lot at about 9:30 that morning said the body had not been there then, which led investigators to believe it was placed later in the morning. The autopsy found that he had been smothered. He had rope marks on his wrists and ankles, and he had been sexually assaulted. L. Brooks Patterson, the Oakland County prosecutor at the time, later said the autopsy team washed the body, which removed any fingerprints.
The killing was not immediately seen as the start of a series. That understanding came later.
Mark's older brother spoke about the case for decades. In 2016 he told WDIV that he thought about it every day, and he told WXYZ that he wondered what would have happened if he had walked home with Mark. In 2021 he said he still hoped someone would come forward. WXYZ reported in February 2026 that he has since died.
Jill Robinson, 12, lived in Royal Oak with her mother and visited her father. WDIV's case summary describes her as a bright, good student. On December 22, 1976, after an argument with her mother at home, she packed a denim bag with clothes and a blanket and rode away on her bicycle.
A family friend saw her at a hobby shop, and witnesses reported seeing her at a doughnut shop between 6 and 7 a.m. the next morning. Her father reported her missing at 11:30 p.m. on the day she left.
Four days after she left home, at about 8:45 a.m. on December 26, she was found beside Interstate 75 in Troy. She was fully clothed. She had been shot. Investigators believed she had been fed and cared for for at least three days before her death.
Her father told WXYZ in 1996 that remembering what happened was still painful two decades later.
Kristine Mihelich, known to her family as Kris, was 10, a fifth-grader at an elementary school in Berkley. WDIV's summary describes her as shy and quiet, a girl with few close friends who lived with her mother.
On January 2, 1977, she set out on foot for a convenience store. WXYZ places the store two blocks from her home; WDIV's 2026 account says she was walking there from the bowling alley where her mother worked. She did not come back. Three days later her mother told a reporter she was trying not to think about the Royal Oak girl whose death was in the news; her younger brothers kept asking when Kris was coming home. A false alarm about another missing child at her school brought parents lining up to collect children who had walked home alone before.
She was missing for 19 days. On January 21, 1977, a mail carrier on a dead-end road in Franklin Village saw her blue jacket in a snowbank. She was wearing the clothes she had been wearing when she disappeared. Because her body was frozen, the autopsy had to wait a day. She had died of suffocation, and she had not been sexually assaulted. Her stepfather later identified her at the State Police post in Pontiac. He told the Cleveland Scene in 2007 that he could not bring himself to touch her and could only look.
Her sister became one of the family members most often quoted in later coverage. In 2026 she told WXYZ that the family thinks about the case every day and that what they want is justice, not closure.
The deaths of Mark and Jill and the disappearance of Kris brought police agencies together. WDIV reports that a joint effort began as an idea at a meeting organized by a Southfield police lieutenant to discuss the Robinson killing and the disappearance of Kristine Mihelich. By the time her body was found, WDIV's 1977 material shows, 35 officers from nine departments had been gathered into a task force with headquarters in Southfield. Prosecutor Patterson called it the strongest effort he had ever seen in the county. WDIV's 2026 account says the task force was formally established and funded after the fourth child disappeared.
Timothy King, called Tim or Timmy, was 11 and lived in Birmingham with his parents, Barry and Marion King, and his brothers and sister. WDIV's case summary describes him as outgoing, athletic and well liked.
At about 8:30 p.m. on March 16, 1977, he left home with 30 cents borrowed from his sister to buy candy at a drugstore about three blocks away. He took his skateboard. A clerk said she sold him candy at about 8:30 and that he left through the back door into a dark parking lot. His parents came home at about 9 p.m., found the door ajar and Tim gone.
His disappearance set off the largest response of all. By the next morning police had set up a headquarters a few blocks from the King home. A 1977 account quoted by WDIV describes 100 officers, volunteers, sheriff's investigators and the county helicopter searching. Barry and Marion King went on television to plead for their son. Barry King spoke directly to Tim: stay tough, say your prayers, we are with you. Marion King wrote to The Detroit News asking that Tim be allowed to come home for his favorite dinner, according to the Cleveland Scene.
He was found on the sixth or seventh day. WDIV's 2012 and 2016 timelines give the date as March 22, 1977; its 2019, 2020 and 2026 reports give March 23. A motorist found him in a ditch beside a road in Livonia, about 300 feet south of 8 Mile Road, just over the line in Wayne County. He was in the clothes he had been wearing, and his skateboard lay about 15 feet away. The autopsy found that he had been suffocated and sexually assaulted, and that he had been washed and groomed. It also found that he had recently eaten a meal of fried chicken, his favorite.
WDIV's 2019 docuseries describes the moment as the point at which police understood that the separate missing-child cases were the work of a child killer. Birmingham Police Chief Jerry Tobin said in 1977 that the man they were looking for was the type of person a child would trust instinctively.
At the funeral, according to the Cleveland Scene, police watched from the balcony and ushers scanned the crowd for anyone who did not belong.
The first concrete lead came from Tim King's last evening. A woman told police she had seen a boy with a skateboard talking with a man in the drugstore parking lot, about two car lengths from her. She described the man's car as a dark blue AMC Gremlin with a white stripe along its side.
Police released a composite sketch of the man: white, 25 to 35, with a dark brown shag haircut and muttonchop sideburns, fair complexion and a husky build. As of March 24, 1977, the Gremlin sighting was the main lead, WDIV reports. Officers stopped and searched blue Gremlins on the roads, and, CBS Detroit reported in 2013, police questioned every blue Gremlin owner in Oakland County. A State Police lieutenant said the car was never found.
The Gremlin stayed attached to the case for decades. In 2013, when construction crews digging the foundation of a house in Grand Blanc, in Genesee County, unearthed buried car parts that included pieces of a Gremlin, the State Police notified the task force; CBS Detroit reported that investigators were trying to learn whether a chop shop had operated there, and no link to the case was announced.
Later investigators came to doubt the car altogether. In 2020 Paul Walton, chief assistant prosecutor for Oakland County, told WXYZ that the Gremlin was probably the wrong vehicle and that the sketch was a composite of several descriptions rather than a portrait of one man. WXYZ has reported that the suspect car was more likely a Pontiac LeMans or Tempest.
On March 16, 1977, the task force released a profile of the person it was looking for, as reproduced by WDIV. It described a white man aged 20 to 30, of above-average education and intelligence, compulsively clean, with no drug or alcohol problem, likely holding a 9-to-5 white-collar job and taking vacation in December and January. He would keep a clean car and house, probably a single-family home with an attached garage in southern Oakland County, and would be able to hold a child for at least 18 days. He would have had prior police contact, might be seeing a psychiatrist and, the profile said, wanted the bodies to be found.
A 1977 summary report by a State Police lieutenant and a Southfield Township youth officer, quoted by WDIV, lists eight special projects the task force ran. Under one, flyers with the profile and sketch went to postal workers, utility crews, meter readers, bank tellers and real estate agents, people who saw many homes and many faces. Under another, investigators gathered every reported sexual offense in southern Oakland County to learn more about possible offenders. The task force received tips faster than it could follow them up; WDIV's 2026 account puts the total at more than 11,000.
The best-known tip came in writing. In April 1977 a man who called himself Allen sent a letter to Bruce Danto, a Detroit psychiatrist who was helping the task force develop a profile. Allen said he was the roommate of the killer, whom he called Frank. Frank, he wrote, was a Vietnam veteran who had taken children and kept them in a Detroit apartment. Allen later telephoned Danto and agreed to meet, according to WDIV, but never appeared. Danto said the call did not seem to be a hoax. Allen and Frank have never been identified.
The investigation also led police into other crimes against children. In 1977, WDIV reports, police examined a child pornography ring connected to North Fox Island in northern Michigan. The man who owned much of the island had left the country in 1976 and was never prosecuted; he died in 1996. A Port Huron teacher was prosecuted on child pornography charges and has since died. Investigators do not believe either man was the killer. A former Wayne County detective told WDIV that the investigation looked at whether the four children had been photographed or filmed. State Police detectives also interviewed a man in an Illinois prison who had been convicted of distributing child pornography; he told them he doubted that the killer would have had any interest in pornography.
After Tim King, no further child was taken in the same way. Parents had kept their children indoors; playgrounds had emptied. In time children went back outside. The task force was shut down in December 1978. The Michigan State Police hold the case today, with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office assigning its own detectives.
One name came up in early 1977 and returned in the 2000s. In January 1977 a 27-year-old man was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting children. He led investigators to Christopher Busch, then 26, and claimed that Busch had killed Mark Stebbins. Both men took polygraph examinations and passed, WDIV reports. The man who made the claim was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for assaulting boys; Busch received probation on related charges.
Busch, who lived in Bloomfield Township (some WDIV reports say Bloomfield Hills), was found dead of a gunshot wound in November 1978. His death was ruled a suicide. Police found a drawing of a boy in his room that, decades later, investigators concluded resembled Mark Stebbins. WDIV also reported that ropes were recovered from his home and later went missing from an evidence locker, and that police sources had questioned whether his death was in fact a suicide.
WDIV reported in 2011 that the families said they had never been told, at the time, that Busch had been a suspect. In 2008 police obtained search warrants for his former home. Records released by the courts in 2010 convinced Barry King that Busch was responsible, he told The Detroit News, as reported by CBS Detroit.
The prosecutors did not agree. By 2010 the Oakland County prosecutor's office no longer regarded Busch as a suspect. In June 2012 the office said new evidence pointed away from him, and that families and media had misread public documents without seeing the actual evidence. Paul Walton said there was not a piece of evidence that pointed to Busch, and Busch's DNA did not match the physical evidence. In 2020 Walton told WXYZ that the state forensic examiner who wrote the original report on the ropes had noted no blood on them, contrary to a Wayne County detective's report. He said the lead could or could not be Busch, and that his office had explored it.
Busch died without being charged in any of the four deaths. The King family continued to believe he was responsible.
Another suspect had died before the case reached the DNA era. In August 1999, L. Brooks Patterson, who had been the county's prosecutor at the time of the killings, organized a trip to Wyoming to exhume the body of a man, D.N., who was at that point regarded as the prime suspect. Patterson called it a long shot but one worth taking. The Cleveland Scene reported that the man had come under suspicion after a necklace bearing the name Kristine was found among his belongings. DNA from his remains was compared with a hair found on one of the victims. It did not match; the Associated Press reported in 2006 that this lead collapsed in November 2000.
In February 2005 the Oakland County investigation was revived with plans to reexamine the evidence using newer databases and forensic methods, the Associated Press reported. The lead that followed came from a different direction.
A Livonia police detective, Cory Williams, had solved a 1989 robbery-killing of a cab company owner. The man convicted of that murder, R.L., told police in 2005 that he knew who was behind the child killings, and described a group of men who had preyed on boys in Detroit's Cass Corridor in the 1970s. His information pointed to T.L., a retired auto worker then living in Parma Heights, Ohio.
In December 2006 Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced charges against T.L. of criminal sexual conduct against boys in the 1970s and 1980s, unrelated to the killings, and called him the most promising suspect in the child killings at that time. R.L. was charged separately with similar offenses. The head of the Oakland County Child Killer Task Force, State Police Detective Sergeant Garry Gray, said T.L. had moved to Ohio around 1978. Investigators also said that neither man was believed to be the killer but that both might have useful information. Outside court, R.L. told WDIV he knew the killer's name; documents WDIV obtained named a member of the ring who had died.
The Cleveland Scene reported in 2007 that T.L. had told investigators he was a pedophile but denied being a killer, and that he failed a polygraph on the killings; a Livonia detective called the result very conclusive. Prosecutors offered him a reduced sentence on the sex charges if he would take a polygraph on the four deaths. In March 2007 he refused the offer and pleaded guilty to 15 counts involving young boys. The assistant prosecutor said he could not imagine why T.L. would not cooperate. The Cleveland Scene reported that the judge imposed three life terms. Prosecutors stressed that T.L. was never charged in the Oakland County killings, and he never was.
In May 2011 WDIV reported that police documents described white animal hairs, believed to come from a dog, found on all four children, and three hairs on Kristine Mihelich that had never been disclosed. One hair from her blouse was reported to be a mitochondrial DNA match to J.G., a man then living in Kalamazoo. Mitochondrial DNA is passed down the maternal line and cannot single out one person; the match meant the hair came from him or a male relative on his mother's side, and police documents said it narrowed the source to about 1 percent of the white population.
J.G. had been 16 at the time of the killings and had known Christopher Busch. Police documents theorized that he might have helped dispose of Kristine's body, or had been part of a group or used as a lure. WDIV reported that police said he had held his breath to make a prison polygraph inconclusive. He was not charged; police said they did not have enough evidence. In February 2012 he told WDIV, "I'm not guilty," and denied any involvement. Police had called him the best lead in the case.
On July 17, 2012, Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper announced what she called the very first piece of evidence linking two of the killings. FBI testing found that hairs recovered in the investigations of Mark Stebbins and Tim King came from the same person. A matching hair had been found in a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville owned by Arch Edward Sloan, then 70, a man serving life sentences for criminal sexual conduct against a boy.
Cooper was careful about what the evidence showed. The hairs were not Sloan's. She said Sloan was not a suspect, that he often lent his cars to other people, and that investigators wanted to know who else had used the car and who spent time with him in the 1970s. Sheriff Michael Bouchard said the case had stayed with every officer who worked in that era.
WXYZ pieced together the background. In 1976, after Mark Stebbins was found about seven miles from Sloan's home, Sloan's parole officer told Southfield police to look at him, and Sloan let them search the Bonneville. In 2009, according to sources quoted by WXYZ, investigators found that human hair held by the State Police had been mislabeled as animal hair. The samples went to the FBI laboratory. When Walton requested a review of all physical evidence, it turned up an untested hair from Tim King that also matched. Court orders showed that Sloan had been moved from prison for interviews and a polygraph in 2010, and to the Oakland County Jail for an ongoing investigation in early 2012. Walton later put the strength of the mitochondrial match at about 1 in 1,814 people. WXYZ reported that Sloan failed a polygraph about Tim King's death; Walton declined to comment on that.
The announcement exposed a split between the two counties. Because Tim King's body was found in Livonia, Wayne County had jurisdiction too, and WXYZ had reported in 2011 that both counties were using grand juries. Wayne County Prosecutor Worthy believed Cooper's press conference had compromised the investigation. Patterson, by then county executive, called it outrageous. Cooper's office said the decision to go public had been made jointly by the task force, including the sheriff and the State Police, and that DNA testing on these items dated back to 1999. Barry King said it was heartbreaking to see the two counties running in different directions.
Sloan was never charged in any of the four deaths. He died in prison on June 12, 2026, at 84, three days after he was placed in hospice care, a Michigan Department of Corrections spokesperson told WXYZ. Sources told WXYZ that detectives tried once more to get him to talk in his final hours and that he gave them new information; what it was has not been made public. Kristine's sister said she did not have the evidence to conclude that he killed her sister or the other children.
For much of the case's second half, the families' fight was with the agencies themselves.
The King family went to court for records. In 2010 the courts released State Police investigative records, and the family asked a court to order the Oakland County prosecutor to release its files as well. Barry King said the legal costs were being paid from money set aside for Tim's college education. In a later suit, King v. Oakland County Prosecutor, he sought an order under Michigan's Crime Victim's Rights Act requiring the prosecutor to confer with him about the investigation, and accused the office of bad faith in obtaining an order suppressing a 2008 search warrant and affidavit. After the Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court in September 2017 declined to hear his appeal, saying it was not persuaded the questions should be reviewed. It was his third appeal. He had told WDIV he did not want the case solved by conjecture, hearsay, coincidence or suspicion; he wanted the facts.
In April 2012 a Detroit lawyer filed a $100 million suit on behalf of Kristine Mihelich's mother against the Oakland County prosecutor, the sheriff and the State Police, alleging a cover-up and misconduct. Kristine's stepfather and sister said they had not been told of the press conference and did not want money. Cooper said her office investigates all sorts of leads and claims. The case was dismissed in 2013, WDIV reports.
Not every claim that reached the press was credible. In October 2012 a man who would give only his first name held a telephone press conference saying he knew the killer's identity and that there were ten more victims; Cooper said she did not believe he was credible.
In September 2020 Paul Walton gave WXYZ his office's account of where the case stood. He said the office had completed a full review of all forensic evidence, which he did not believe had ever been done before, and had asked every original agency for help. He denied that Oakland County had obstructed the investigation, as alleged in The Snow Killings, a book by Marney Keenan that follows a Wayne County detective and a Wayne County prosecutor.
He also addressed several beliefs that had become fixed in public accounts. It is not established, he said, that one person abducted and killed all four children. Carpet fibers found on the children did not show that they were held in the same house; investigators could say only that the fibers were of the same color, not the same dye lot, maker or place. The ropes in the Busch case carried no blood, by the examiner's own report. The Gremlin was probably the wrong car, and the sketch was a composite. The genetic evidence is old mitochondrial evidence, not the nuclear DNA that has solved other cold cases. He said he would not give the King family a tentative answer, because it would not help them.
Barry King died in hospice care in November 2020, WDIV and WXYZ reported, without learning who killed his son. He had spent decades and, by WDIV's account, thousands of dollars pursuing the case, including through public records requests. He and his wife founded the Tim King Fund in 1977 to help abused children and support activities for young people in Birmingham, because they did not want anyone to forget Tim's death. In 2013 the family released Decades of Deceit, a six-hour DVD setting out their view of the investigation, with the rights assigned to the fund. After his son was found, he had said he simply wanted the case solved, wherever the answer came from.
As of October 2026 the four deaths remain unsolved and no one has been charged. In February 2026, around the 50th anniversary of Mark Stebbins's disappearance, a State Police spokesman told WXYZ that the case remains open and that the agency is evaluating evidence as technology develops; the department said detectives would contact the families if there were an update. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, who helped follow leads as a new officer in 1977, said the case is assigned to his special investigations unit and remains a priority. He said he regularly asks whether DNA, genetic genealogy or other new methods can be applied, had recently been briefed on an artificial intelligence tool for analyzing case data, and would tell the families first, immediately, if there were an answer. Kristine's sister said the State Police had not contacted the family since around 2016 or 2017.
The mitochondrial hairs remain the only published scientific link between any of the cases, and they connect only the two boys. None of the men publicly named over five decades has been charged in the deaths. Christopher Busch died in 1978, D.N. was excluded by DNA, and Arch Sloan died in prison in June 2026. State Police ask anyone with information to call 1-855-MICHTIP.
Several other killings or disappearances of young people from the same years and region have been mentioned alongside the case. None is officially linked, and two were solved separately.
Cynthia Cadieux, 16, of Roseville, was last seen on the evening of January 15, 1976, and was found dead in Bloomfield Township early the next morning; Robert Anglin was convicted of first-degree murder in 1979. Sheila Srock, 14, was killed in Birmingham on January 19, 1976, while babysitting; Oliver Rhodes Andrews confessed and was convicted of first-degree murder. Jane Louise Allan, 14, of Royal Oak, was last seen hitchhiking in August 1976 and was found dead in Ohio days later; police said in a 1978 report that she had no connection to the Oakland County killings, and her case is unsolved. Kimberly King, 12, no relation to Tim, disappeared from Warren in September 1979; officials believe she was killed, but WDIV reports that no link to the Oakland County case has been established.
In 2012 a lawyer for Kristine's mother said he would argue that up to 11 more children were linked to the four; no official agency has adopted that claim.
One killer or more. Early investigators largely looked for one man, though police at the time also considered that one or two men may have been involved. Investigators later considered a group, and in 2020 the Oakland County prosecutor's office said it is not established that one person killed all four children.
The blue Gremlin and the sketch. Both came from one witness and became the public face of the case. Prosecutors now say the car was probably wrong and the sketch a composite.
Christopher Busch. The King family and others have long held that he was responsible. Prosecutors said in 2012 that no evidence tied him to the killings and that his DNA did not match; the ropes said to carry blood did not, according to the examiner's report cited in 2020.
The DNA. Only mitochondrial hair evidence has been described publicly. It links the two boys' cases to each other and to a car, but not to its owner, and it cannot identify a single person. No nuclear DNA profile of the killer has been published.
J.G. and T.L. Each was described by officials at one time as a leading suspect or best lead. Neither was charged in the deaths.
The Allen letter. Its writer and the man he called Frank were never identified, and whether it was genuine is unknown.
Additional victims. Claims of 10 or more further victims, made by private parties in 2012, have not been supported by any official agency.
Figures. Accounts give different totals for tips received and different dates for the discovery of Tim King's body (March 22 or March 23, 1977).
January 1976: Cynthia Cadieux and Sheila Srock are killed in separate cases later solved by convictions of other men.
February 15, 1976: Mark Stebbins, 12, last seen in Ferndale.
February 19, 1976: Mark found in a shopping center parking lot in Southfield.
December 22, 1976: Jill Robinson, 12, leaves her Royal Oak home on her bicycle.
December 26, 1976: Jill found beside Interstate 75 in Troy.
January 2, 1977: Kristine Mihelich, 10, disappears in Berkley.
January 1977: A man arrested on child sexual assault charges names Christopher Busch.
January 21, 1977: Kristine found in a snowbank in Franklin Village.
March 16, 1977: Timothy King, 11, disappears in Birmingham; the task force releases its profile.
March 22 or 23, 1977: Tim found in Livonia.
April 1977: The "Allen" letter reaches psychiatrist Bruce Danto.
November 1978: Busch found dead; ruled a suicide.
December 1978: The task force disbands.
August 1999: D.N.'s body exhumed in Wyoming; DNA does not match (lead reported closed November 2000).
February 2005: Investigation revived.
December 2006: T.L. named a suspect and charged with unrelated sex offenses.
March 2007: T.L. pleads guilty to 15 counts, refusing a polygraph deal on the killings.
2008: Search warrants issued for Busch's former home.
2010: Courts release State Police records; prosecutor no longer regards Busch as a suspect.
May 2011: WDIV reports a mitochondrial hair match to J.G.
April 2012: $100 million suit filed for Kristine's mother (dismissed 2013).
June 2012: Prosecutors say evidence points away from Busch.
July 17, 2012: Prosecutor Cooper announces hairs linking the Stebbins and King cases, matching a hair in Arch Sloan's car.
September 2017: Michigan Supreme Court declines Barry King's appeal.
September 2020: Oakland County prosecutor's office describes its full forensic review.
November 2020: Barry King dies.
February 2026: Fifty years after the first abduction, State Police say the case remains open.
June 12, 2026: Arch Sloan dies in prison, never charged in the deaths.