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At least five violent deaths have been reported since October 2025 along the same stretch of a popular trail in Michigan’s capital, leading local investigators to wonder whether they should be looking out for one killer.
“One question that we are being asked is, ‘Do we have a serial killer in Lansing?’ … What we need the public to know is that we are investigating all of these cases,” police Chief Robert Backus told reporters earlier this month. “They are all active investigations, and we are looking at the idea or the possibility that these may be related cases.”
According to CNN, Backus said investigators believe the crimes could represent a pattern targeting white unhoused men who were sleeping overnight along the Lansing River Trail. Lansing Mayor Andy Schor told the outlet in a statement that authorities have a suspect in at least one of the deaths in custody, and that police are looking into “all possible connections.”…