Court Rules Joe Gentz Can Continue to See His Daughter

GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. (WJBK) -- Joseph Gentz left the Grosse Pointe Park Police Department Wednesday after a quick stop. We believe he was just trying to pick up some of his belongings that were confiscated last week.

"Are you asking to take another polygraph?" a reporter asked him in the lobby.

"No," he replied.

The 48-year-old alleged confessed killer was in court earlier in the day not for his reportedly admitted role in the murder of Jane Bashara. Gentz allegedly told police last week that Bob Bashara paid him to strangle his wife, but nobody has been arrested yet in that two week old murder.

Instead, Gentz was in family court in Mount Clemens appearing tall and strong. He wore a suit and stayed quiet. A custody hearing was underway for his 10-year-old daughter. The state was trying to suspend his visitation rights based on all of the reports in the media about his confession.

However, the referee ruled there is not enough evidence. Gentz hasn't even been charged and so visitation can continue as long as it's supervised by the Department of Human Services.

Gentz was whisked away through a back door where it's believed Detroit detectives were waiting to talk to him as a search warrant was being executed at Bob Bashara's Grosse Pointe Park home.

Bashara's attorney David Griem believes Joe Gentz is giving investigators information and cutting a deal with prosecutors, who could then charge Bob Bashara with the murder of his wife.

Griem accused Gentz of celebrating at a Saint Clair Shores coffee shop the other night. Employees there would not comment.

"He was not only high-fiving the patrons that he knows, but he was signing autographs for those people. God help us all if that's our system of justice," said Griem.

We couldn't ask Joe Gentz about that because he wouldn't stop to talk to us. However, it's interesting that he did call our assignment desk last night because he said he liked a photograph that we've been showing of him and wondered if he could have it. He told us he would be in court Wednesday morning and seemed to sort of break down when he started talking about his daughter.