GUILTY MI - Michael VanBuskirk, 38, Battle Creek, 27 Aug 2011

Police fear missing Delton man 'definitely could be' victim of homicide; investigators link second missing man to Harold Ordway

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Police are still seeking answers about why a Battle Creek man had a mattress with a large amount of blood on it in the back of his truck when he allegedly caused an accident near Plainwell.

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Police have been searching for Paul Atchley and Michael VanBuskirk. No one has seen them for about two weeks now.

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ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) -- A man who authorities say was found with a bloody mattress in the back of his pickup truck following a crash in southwestern Michigan is getting a competency evaluation.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Michael VanBuskirk oldest son has a simple wish: he wants his dad home before his 12th birthday.

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GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) -- The Barry County man at the center of 2 missing person’s cases is being held on state charges and now faces federal gun charges as well.

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WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – New details are emerging in an investigation that Newschannel 3 was first to report nearly two months ago.

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WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – The search is on to find two men who've been missing since a bloody mattress was found in the back of a pick-up truck.

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He isn’t exactly getting away with murder, but some might say Harold Ordway is getting off relatively easily for someone who has confessed to killing two people. He has been given 20 to 50 years for 2nd degree murder, as part of a plea deal with Prosecutors.

They say in one case they don’t have a body, and in the other, the body was too badly decomposed to determine a cause of death.

Ordway told authorities that he strangled Van Buskirk, dumping his body in a farmer’s field near Vicksburg. It was eventually found but too badly decomposed to detect soft tissue damage. Ordway told detectives he had to kill Paul Atchley because he knew about the Van Buskirk killing. He shot him to death and buried his body in a shallow grave somewhere in southern Allegan or northern Van Buren County. It has never been found.

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