Lansing police investigating possible serial killer after five deaths

The River Trail in Lansing, Michigan, cuts right through downtown and runs for about 20 miles, but it’s a one-mile stretch between Old Town and Kalamazoo Street that has seen five violent deaths of unhoused men. Lansing police are considering that the deaths could be the work of a serial killer.

“What we need the public to know is that we are investigating all of these cases. They are all active investigations, and we are looking at the idea or the possibility that these may be related cases,” said Lansing Police Chief Robert Backus.

The five men who were found along the River Trail range in age from 22 to 70. According to police, they were all unhoused, and they’ve been identified as Gino Chouinard, Dennis Dunnebacke, Robert Smith, Daniel Lusk and Louis Woodruff…

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