Sources told Catallo that the 84-year-old convicted pedophile gave law enforcement new information to pursue in the case.<\/p>\n
Between 1976 and 1977, Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich and Timothy King were abducted along the Woodward Corridor in southern Oakland County and later murdered. Their killer \u2014 or killers \u2014 have never been charged with their deaths.<\/p>\n
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A Michigan Department of Corrections spokesperson says Sloan had been placed on hospice care on June 9 and later died on June 12, 2026. The 7 Investigators learned detectives were able to visit Sloan in his final hours and question him one last time about the child killings.<\/p>\n
Sloan has been locked up since 1984 after pleading guilty to raping a 10-year-old boy. Court records show the crime took place inside Sloan\u2019s camper that he parked at the Packard Plant in Detroit. That case ended a 14-year stretch of arrests and convictions for various sex crimes with minors between Pennsylvania and Michigan.<\/p>\n
Back in 1976, Sloan\u2019s disturbing criminal history prompted his parole officer to tell Southfield police to investigate Sloan after Mark’s body was found at 10 Mile and Greenfield roads, about seven miles from Sloan\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
At the time, Sloan agreed to let police search his 1966 Pontiac Bonneville, but he was not arrested for the murder. Decades later, new testing at the FBI lab revealed the hairs recovered in that search would connect Sloan\u2019s car to hairs found on both Mark and Timothy. But prosecutors say the mitochondrial DNA does not belong to Sloan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigators took tapings from the interior of the car, and on those tapings were small hairs, fibers and fur,\u201d said former Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper at a press conference on July 17, 2012. \u201cThat testing however revealed that the hairs do not come from the driver of that vehicle. The driver of that vehicle is not the donor of either the hair found in the Bonneville or the hairs found on the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Related: Oakland County Child Killings: 50 years later, police hope new tech could help crack case<\/a><\/p>\n The 7 Investigators were the first to report that Sloan was polygraphed in recent years, and police sources told Catallo that Sloan failed the lie detector test when he was asked about murder of Timothy.<\/p>\n