Mark Douglas Stebbins, a 12-year-old boy from Ferndale, Michigan, was last seen the afternoon of February 15, 1976, leaving the American Legion Hall where his mother worked. He called to say he was walking the short distance home to watch a movie but never arrived. A four-day search ended when his body was found in a snowbank in a Southfield office parking lot on February 19, 1976.

An autopsy found Mark had been held captive, bound with ligatures at his wrists and ankles, sexually assaulted, and smothered; cause of death was asphyxia. His clothes, the same blue jeans and blue jacket he was last seen wearing, were on his body. Mark’s murder was later linked to a series of child killings in Oakland County between 1976 and 1977 attributed to the Oakland County Child Killer. Over the years investigators examined several suspects, including Chris Busch, Greg Greene, and Arch Sloan, and some hair evidence produced DNA leads, but no one has been criminally charged in Mark’s death. The family pursued a wrongful death lawsuit in 2007.

What can readers who lived in Oakland County in 1976 add about Mark’s last movements or anyone seen near the American Legion Hall that afternoon?