(WXYZ) \u2014 He is a key suspect in one of Michigan\u2019s most notorious unsolved murder mysteries: the Oakland County Child Killer case. Now the man who says he shared a prison cell with Arch Sloan is sharing new details about the convicted pedophile.<\/p>\n
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Man who says he shared cell with Oakland County Child Killer suspect speaks out<\/p>\n
7 Investigator Heather Catallo first revealed in July that detectives had met with Arch Edward Sloan in his final hours alive, and that Sloan did give law enforcement new information to pursue in the Oakland County Child Killer case.<\/p>\n
Ever since forensic test results linked hairs found in Sloan\u2019s car to victims in the Oakland County Child Killer case, the convicted pedophile has been a key suspect.<\/p>\n
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Between 1976 and 1977, four children were abducted along the Woodward corridor in Oakland County. They were held for days and then murdered.<\/p>\n
Sloan died in early June. The 84-year-old had been locked up since 1984 after he pleaded guilty to raping a 10-year-old boy inside his camper in the city of Detroit. That case ended a 14-year stretch of arrests and convictions for various sex crimes with minors between Pennsylvania and Michigan.<\/p>\n
That lengthy criminal history prompted police to question Sloan in 1976 about the very first Oakland County Child Killer victim \u2013 Mark Stebbins. In February 1976, the 12-year-old\u2019s body was found just 7 miles from Sloan\u2019s home. At the time, police took samples from Sloan\u2019s Pontiac Bonneville, which decades later matched hairs found on both Stebbins and the child killer\u2019s 4th victim, Tim King.<\/p>\n
Related:\u00a02016 coverage from WXYZ: More details emerge about Arch Sloan<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThey offered if he would just tell him what happened to the kids, they’d let him go and he refused,\u201d said William Whateley.<\/p>\n Whateley says he spent 9 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. While he was locked up, he says he was assigned to be Sloan\u2019s cellmate for about two years while the two were held at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility near Adrian.<\/p>\n \u201cDid Arch Sloan’s fellow inmates believe he was the Oakland County child killer,\u201d asked 7 Investigator Heather Catallo.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, that’s how I found out who I was living with. They told me, who you’re in there with was the Oakland County child killer,\u201d said Whateley.<\/p>\n Sloan\u2019s involvement in the case has never been publicly proven. The hairs from his car that are connected to the two male victims are not Sloan\u2019s DNA.<\/p>\n Whateley says Sloan kept a picture of the Bonneville in his cell, and he says Sloan had a friend who would send him money in prison.<\/p>\n