It was the late 1960s, and the naked, mutilated, dead bodies of young women were being found one after another along Michigan roadsides and in vacant lots. A serial killer was running wild. His victims ranged in age from thirteen to twenty-three. I was a junior high school student, born in 1955, old enough to read the newspapers and listen to the adults at my grandmother's house discuss the crimes. The stories hit home with me since all but two of the girls butchered by this

Donnovan Lewis pled guilty to the escape charge in January 2019. In February, he received a seventeen-month-to-four-year jail sentence. So, he'll do some time behind bars. At the time of this writing, Donnovan was still awaiting trial for murdering Aniya Mack, stuffing her body into a suitcase and first throwing it into a creek, then when it floated, burying the case in the muddy banks of the waterway. Some time. But will it be enough time for Aniya's mother and friends? Will

Whether or not he pleads guilty or is convicted of killing his girlfriend, stuffing her body into a suitcase and pitching it into a river, Donnovan Terrell Lewis is going to spend time behind bars. That is what jumping over three, fifteen-foot high fences — one topped with shards of glass, another with barbed wire — then stripping off your county jail orange and running through downtown Kalamazoo in your county-issued boxers will get you. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Don

Kahlek McPherson wouldn't budge. He pled not guilty to a charge of murder in the death of Corey Thompson, and Kahlek was bound and determined to stick to his story in a Muskegon County, Mich. courtroom. Kahlek even took the stand in his own defense, against the advice of his attorney. Kahlek insisted on testifying. He told the jury in no uncertain terms that he did not fire the shot that killed Corey while the forty-four-year-old was sitting alone on his porch drinking a beer