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TONIGHT ON WOOD TV. 8. I'M HOUR-LONG TARGET. 8 DIVISION. THE GRAND RAPIDS SERIAL MURDERS. HERE'S TARGET 8 INVESTIGATOR. SUSAN.
IN THE MID 1990'S, OVER 3 TERRIFYING YEARS, THE STREETS OF GRAND RAPIDS WERE UNDER SIEGE. ITS WOMEN HUNTED DOWN AGAIN AND THE MURDERS. THERE'S BEEN NO JUSTICE AND LITTLE PUBLIC AWARENESS. HOPEFULLY, THAT'S ABOUT TO CHANGE.
NO ONE RECOGNIZED THAT CHRISTMAS OF '93 ON GRAND RAPIDS UNSUSPECTING STREETS. BONE AGLOW WITH GOOD TIDINGS, A SINISTER SEASON. SOMEONE WAS COMING TO TOWN. RIGHT. STAY THE SAME. MERRY CHRISTMAS. GOD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS. YOUR SISTER. 1 THUS A CARD THAT SENT TO ME. THEY HAD ALWAYS BEEN TIGHT, NORMA HABIT AND HER BIG SISTER, LINDA MCHUGH NURTURING AND.
I WAS LOOKING OUT FOR ME.
TO NICE PERSON, NOT SELFISH AND NO WAY AT ALL.
IT WAS A COUPLE WEEKS BEFORE CHRISTMAS AND MCCUE WAS VISITING ABBOTT. BUT AS NIGHT NEAR.
PRETTY JOB AND GOT OURSELVES TOGETHER AND LIKE, OK, BY FROM THE COMING TO GET ME A MODEL OF MY FRIENDS. I SAID BEHAVE, RIGHT. SHE'S LIKE, YES, I WILL. SHE SAID, I LOVE YOU, NORMALCY LANER, BUT NORMAL, WOULD YOU SEE HER LATER. AND WHEN 29 YEAR-OLD LINDA MCHUGH DIDN'T SHOW UP ON CHRISTMAS DAY.
LIKE THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG BECAUSE WONDER WOULD NOT MISS.
THEIRS WAS A BIG FAMILY. BUT ABBOTT SAYS SHE MCHUGH AND THERE HAVE FURTHER JIM BREUER ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO HOME, SCARRED BY ALCOHOL-FUELED ABUSE. MCHUGH. THEY SAID HERSELF AROUND 13. BUT SHE ALSO GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL, HAD JOBS, A WEDDING. A BABY GIRL. SHE ADORED. AND IN THE END, A CRACK COCAINE ADDICTION, SHE WOULD NEVER GET THE CHANCE TO BEAT. MEAN, THIS IN JAIL. SEND ME THIS. WE MAKE ME FEEL GOOD INSIDE. NEAR THE BEST SISTER ANYONE COULD ASK FOR. COMES FROM MY.
THING. I GOT.
SHE US.
IF EVERYBODY. WOULD AGREE HADN'T SHE WOULD DO NOTHING.
THE 90'S GRAND RAPIDS. THOSE LOOKING TO BUY SHOP BY PROSTITUTION HAD A BUSINESS ADDRESS. THIS WAS IT. A 3 MILE STRETCH OF DIVISION, A GRITTY ARTERY THAT PASS THROUGH THE HEART OF GRAND RAPIDS ON CORNERS FROM WEALTHY STREET TO 28. WORKERS OFTEN TRAPPED BY ADDICTION AND TRAFFICKERS ADVERTISED THEIR SERVICES. I GO DOWN AND DIVISION AND GRABBED HER. PART OF THIS WORLD LIKE THIS. HOW WE LEARN AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE DOING THIS TO YOURSELF. ALL YOU NEED TO GET OUT HERE. IT'S NOT SAFE FOR YOU. BUT IT'S SAFE FOR YOU.
ACCORDING TO POLICE, BOYFRIEND WHO REPORTED HER MISSING. HE TOLD POLICE SHE HAD CALLED HIM UPSET AND CRYING AROUND 3 IN THE MORNING, ASKING TO BE PICKED UP AT A PARTY STORE ON DIVISION SOUTH OF BURTON. BUT WHEN HE GOT THERE, HE TOLD POLICE MCHUGH WAS GONE. SHE HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND.
AS WINTER SETTLED IN THAT JANUARY OF '94, SO TOO DID A DEADLY MENACE. ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE NEW YEAR, IT WOULD CLAIM A SECOND VICTIM. 29 YEAR-OLD LEE SOAP, A MOM OF 3. ADDICTION. POLICE SAY OPRAH WAS LAST SEEN AROUND 04:30 AM IN THE MORNING, GETTING INTO A VEHICLE AND DIVISION AND COTTAGE GROVE. A MILE NORTH OF LINDA MCHUGH'S REGULAR SPOT.
ARTICLES GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
IT'S BEEN 29 YEARS SINCE CANDY WORLD FOREVER CHANGED. SINCE THE WOMAN AT THE CENTER OF IT DISAPPEARED.
SHE'S PRETTY I'M SURE.
BERG WAS 9. THE LAST TIME SHE SAW HER MOM, LISA. IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY 1993.
SHE GOT ME LIKE PRESS ON FAKE FINGERNAILS AND A BARBIE DOLL AND.
SHE TRIED TO DO IT. SHE WITH THE LITTLE THAT WE DID HAVE. SHE WAS BY. SHE'S LOUD. SHE AN OPINION. SHE LET YOU KNOW. SHE HAD THE BIGGEST HEART. SHE WOULD HELP ANYBODY.
NEEDED HELP TO STOCK IN VICE GRIP OF THE CRACK COCAINE EPIDEMIC. TOWARDS THE END. THEY GOT IT WAS A LITTLE ROUGH. BECAUSE THAT LAST PICTURE REALLY DOES KIND. SPEAK VOLUMES. SHE LOOKS. PRETTY MESSED UP AN ISLAND. VERY UNHAPPY.
THERE WAS A TIME CATER BERG PRESENTED HER MOM. BUT NO MORE.
I THINK SHE HAD A LOT TO DEAL WITH HERSELF. SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE BEST CHILDHOOD. IF I LOOK BACK WHO I WAS AT 23. I'VE MANY YEARS. 2 TO GROW AND CHANGE AND DEVELOP IN. MAKE BETTER CHOICES IN MY LIFE. AND SHE JUST DIDN'T HAVE THAT OPTION. SOMEBODY TOOK THAT OPTION ALIVE.
IT WAS A GRANDMOTHER WALKING WITH HER HUSBAND AND HER MUSKEGON. POLICE SAY SHE SPOTTED FEET, STICKING OUT OF A BUSH NEAR HACKLEY AVENUE IN STEIN STREET, 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS. PER HAD BEEN MISSING 3 MONTHS. CATER BERG FOUND OUT WATCHING THE NEWS.
AND I REMEMBER EVERYBODY IS KIND OF LOOKING AT ME. BUT. I WAS EXCITED THAT THEY HAD FOUND MY MOM. I DIDN'T REALIZE FINDING HER BODY MEANT THAT SHE WAS DEAD.
HEARD WAS FOUND. SHE HAD BEEN STRANGLED. POLICE HAVE SEVERAL LEADS AND DEATH OF A LOCAL 3 DECADES LATER, CATER BYRD WANTS TO KNOW WHOSE FACE HER MOM. SO AT THE END AND WHAT SHE.
WANT TO KNOW THE FACTS. THAT'S HOW MY BRAIN ALL OF EVEN WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I WANTED TO KNOW THAT THE POLICE AND YOU WHAT, CANDY, PETER BERG DIDN'T KNOW THAT ANSWER WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
YES, I WAS CALLING TO SEE IF I COULD.
GET ANY INFORMATION ON MY MOM'S CASE.
THAT'S COMING UP LATER. BUT FIRST, AFTER THE BREAK, THE DEADLIEST SEASON AND EARLY.
THE SERIAL ATTACKS ON GRAND RAPIDS WOMEN BEGAN WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LINDA MCHUGH IN LATE 1993 AND THE MURDER OF SUMMER OF 1996. FOR MORE WOMEN HAD BEEN MURDERED AND 3 MORE AT VANISHED. THEN CAME THE DEADLIEST SEASON OF ALL.
POLICE SAY THEY HAVE IDENTIFIED ANOTHER ONE OF THE.
THE MOST RECENT BODY SOUTH HERE IN THIS FIELD.
AND THERE'S CONCERN THAT IT IS A FEMALE. HISTORY OF DRUGS AND PROSTITUTION. THE 10TH WOMAN TO BE FOUND DEAD AND BELIEVED MURDERED.
AS THE LEAVES BEGIN THEIR DISSENT IN LATE SUMMER '96, THE BODY COUNT SPIKED. 6 WOMEN FOUND MURDERED WITHIN 3 MONTHS. 4 IN OCTOBER ALONE. 2 WITHIN 2. BUT THEN IN FALL '96, THE KILLING SEASON SEEM TO STOP ABRUPTLY. IN THE END, IT HAD CLAIMED 17 LIVES. IN 4 OF THE WOMEN VANISHED. 13 WERE FOUND MURDERED. THEIR BODIES SCATTERED VOIDS IN CANCER RISK AN COUNTIES BUT NOT THEIR LAST KNOWN LOCATIONS. THOSE WERE CHILLINGLY CAN FIND. POLICE RECORDS SHOWED NEARLY ALL OF THE VICTIMS FROM 3 MILE STRETCH OF DIVISION AVENUE.
DAUGHTERS, SISTERS, WIVES, MOMS MISSING AT FIRST FOR A WEEK. A FEW MONTHS, 2 YEARS IN ONE CASE UNTIL THEY WERE STUMBLED UPON BY A GUY LOOKING FOR CANS ABATE SELLER HEADING OUT TO TRAP MINNOWS. A CITY WORKER RELIEVING HIMSELF.
WHEN THE BODY SLAM, RIGHT. THERE'S REAL DECOMPOSE.
IN 8 OF THE 13 MURDERS, AND WAS TOO LATE TO DETERMINE A DEATH CAUSE. OF THE OTHER 5, 4, WERE STRANGLED. ONE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH. BUT POLICE WON'T SAY WHETHER THEY THINK THE KILLINGS ARE CONNECTED. FAMILY MEMBERS OF SOME VICTIMS ARE ALREADY CONVINCED. MEAN, WHAT ELSE ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO THINK.
SUFFICIENT SIMILARITIES THAT TO THE.
IN OCTOBER. '96 WITH BODY SHOWING UP ALMOST WEEKLY, POLICE FORMED A REGIONAL TASK FORCE AND THE FBI STEPPED IN TO.
WE HAVE A FULL-TIME FBI AGENT ASSIGNED TO THE TASK FORCE. CONVICTED OF ANY OTHER OFFENSES. MISTER LISI.
YES, SIR. BY DECEMBER '96, INVESTIGATORS HAVE IDENTIFIED A MAN, JAMAL ONLY SEE THE PRIMARY SUSPECT IN THE MURDERS OF WORKERS.
INVESTIGATORS SAY LACEY TRIED TO STRANGLE A 15 YEAR-OLD WITH AN EXTENSION CORD BACK IN MARCH OF 1995.
JAMAL ONLY SEE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR CHOKING 2 WOMEN WHO SURVIVED, BUT HE DENIED KILLING ANYONE. AT LEAST THE SENTENCING PROSECUTOR SAID MURDER CHARGES MAY FOLLOW, BUT THEY NEVER DID. AND DETECTIVES WOULD LATER DEVELOP OTHER SUSPECTS. GREGORY KELLY WAS A VERY DANGEROUS AND VIOLENT INDIVIDUAL.
IN 2004, NEARLY A DECADE MARK BURNS, NOW RETIRED FROM THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, WAS ASSIGNED TO ONE OF THE UNSOLVED MURDERS.
ALL THOSE WOMEN CAME IN CONTACT WITH. SO THAT HE WAS VIOLENT TO THEM.
GREGORY KELLY NEVER CHARGED IN ANY OF THE MURDERS WAS SENTENCED IN 2005 FOR TRANSPORTING WORKERS. HE DIED FROM COMPLICATIONS OF COVID-19 WHILE IN PRISON.
I DON'T BELIEVE FOR ONE MINUTE THAT ONE AND KILLED EACH OF THOSE PEOPLE IN THE MID 90'S. I THINK THAT TO JUST PAY SOME INFORMATION AND NOT HUNDREDS OF INTERVIEWS THAT WE DID THAT. THIS TRAVELING TO THE 3 DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDERS. RETIRED DETECTIVE IN FEBRUARY. 22 HE PREDICTED CORRECTLY THAT DNA WOULD SOON LEAD TO A BREAK. HE PREDICTED SOMETHING ELSE TO BASED ON A PRIVATE LAB ANALYSIS OF CRIME SCENE DNA. THE LAB DETERMINED IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE POLICE WERE LOOKING FOR A WHITE MAN DECADES EARLIER. SOME VICTIMS, FAMILIES FEARED POLICE HAD STOPPED LOOKING FOR ANYONE.
POLICE HAVE BEEN TRACKING DOWN HUNDREDS OF TIPS SINCE OCTOBER. BUT NOW THE LEAVES ARE RUNNING DRY AND MAYBE THE MONEY TOO. INVESTIGATORS SAY IT MAY BE TIME TO BREAK UP THE TASK FORCE AND MAYBE MORE A MATTER OF ARE THE AGENCIES. ALL THE AGENCIES GOING TO BE ABLE TO COMMIT THAT TYPE OF MAN POWER TO THE TASK FORCE PAIN.
STRONGLY BELIEVE MY DAUGHTER AND THE OTHER GIRLS. DIDN'T HAVE A LABEL AS AND DRUG INVESTIGATION WOULD CONTINUE. KATHLEEN ROBINSON'S DAUGHTER 27 YEAR-OLD SONIA COMPOST WAS FOUND MURDERED IN INFORMERS '96. FOR MONTHS AFTER THE MURDER, ROBINSON REFUSED TO BE SILENCED.
JUST THINK IT'S BUT NEARLY 3 DECADES AND NO ANSWERS. LATER ROBINSON'S VOICES WEARY AND HER FAMILY FEARS. SHE'LL LEAVE THIS EARTH WITHOUT KNOWING WHO KILLED HER DAUGHTER. SHE'S IN POOR HEALTH. SO IT WAS COMPOST. A THE FAMILY'S ANNUAL MEMORIAL LAST YEAR.
26 YEARS. WE DON'T KNOW. WE DID IT. WHY THEY DID WE NEED.
YOU KNOW, EVEN NOW IT'S LIKE I'M LIKE SHAKY RIGHT NOW. SO DOES THE FAMILY OF SHERRY STUART BROWN, A 32 YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF 4 WHO VANISHED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MURDEROUS FALL OF '96. SHE WAS FIERCELY PROTECTIVE OF ME. I WAS THE YOUNGEST. AND SO WHEN PEOPLE LEAVE COME AT ME, SHE WOULD KIND OF PICK UP MY SHE WAS VERY STRONG WILLED. THEY WERE JUST 13 MONTHS APART DEBORAH WILLIAMS AND HER SISTER, SHERRY STUART BROWN. SHE WAS A GOOD PERSON. SHE WAS A GOOD MOM. SHE WAS ALSO HER SISTER'S BEST FRIEND. IT CAN BE WILLIAMS SAID HER SISTER HAD STRUGGLED WITH ADDICTION.
AND WAS MISSING FOR 2 YEARS BEFORE A COUPLE TRYING TO ROUND UP STRAY DOGS FOUND HER REMAINS JUST 2 MILES FROM WHERE SONIA COMPOST HAD BEEN FOUND. ANY EVIDENCE OF WHAT STUART BROWN SUFFERED AT THE END WAS LONG GONE. THAT WAS WE COULD DO TO HELP. THERE WAS ANYTHING WE COULD HELP HER DURING THOSE LAST MOMENTS. I DON'T KNOW STRIKEOUT. HE'S NOT BEING ABLE TO HELP HER. IT'S WE JUST FELT SO HELPLESS.
KENT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, MAJOR CASE DETECTIVES ON OCTOBER 3RD 1996. A DELIVERY DRIVER HEADING WEST ON 76TH STREET SPOTTED SOME SORT OF PACKAGE SHAPED LIKE A HEAD AND SHOULDERS. THE BLANKET RULE BODY OF SHARON HANEKE WAS IDENTIFIED THROUGH FINGERPRINTS, BUT IT WOULD TAKE DNA AND 26 YEARS OF SUSPECT.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 29 YEAR-OLD SHARON HANEKE IS THE 10TH WOMAN TO BE FOUND DEAD AND BELIEVED MURDERED IN CANTON NEARBY COUNTY SINCE MARCH OF '94.
FROM A PASSERBY OR NOTICED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A BODY LYING IN THE DITCH.
29 YEAR-OLD SHARON HANEKE HAD BEEN RAPED STRANGLED STABBED IN THE HEAD BOUND AND WRAPPED IN AN ELECTRIC BLANKET. SHE STILL WORE A BRA A PEARL NECKLACE AND EARRINGS.
WANT ON PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR.
IF YOU THE LOVELY A DAUGHTER IN A LOVING MOTHER TO 2 CHILDREN. I'M PRETTY JOE VITT OUT IT. WE JUST WANT TO DO FOOD. IT JUST TO HARASS ANYBODY COULD HELP FORWARD.
LET'S HOPE MY PARENTS WOULD HAVE GOT CO-CHAIR BEFORE THEY PASSED AWAY.
GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY. SO FIRST THING I WANT TO DO IS THANK THE HAMMOND FAMILY FOR BEING HERE TODAY.
MY BROTHER WAS SITTING IN THE CHAIR AND HE SAYS TERRY, THERE'S A COUGH OR SOMETHING COMING TO THE PORCH.
AND HE SAID I HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. AND THEN IT'S UP TO HIM. CALLAWAY SAYS GOING HE SAID YES, BUT YOU GOT.
LAST WEEK KENT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, MAJOR CASE DETECTIVES ARRESTED GARY DEAN ARTMAN THE 64 YEAR-OLD FLORIDA MAN FOR THE 1996 MURDER OF SHARON HAM. THESE CONCH ASIAN.
IS OVER THE WRONG TRACK. AND I GUESS WHAT ABOUT SKY AND SOME OF THEM. THEY GOT THEM. IT WAS A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT. THE FIRST EVER ARREST IN THE STRING OF MID-NINETIES MURDERS.
THE VICTIM WAS HIGH TIDE STRANGLED BY LOOK AT YOUR GARY HARTMAN PULLED OVER AND PICKED WAS CHARGED WITH THE 26 YEARS COLD RAPE AND MURDER OF SHARON HANEKE.
A GENETIC GENEALOGIST USING CRIME SCENE. DNA HAD BUILT AN ALLEGED KILLER'S FAMILY TREE IN REVERSE.
SHE HAD. THERE ARE DOWN GENERATION ONE FOR SONS OF OVER.
4 SONS, BUT ONLY ONE WHO POLICE SAY LIVED IN GRAND RAPIDS WHEN SHARON HANEKE WAS MURDERED. AND NOT JUST IN GRAND RAPIDS. COURT RECORDS SHOW ARTMAN LIVED 5 MILES FROM DIVISION AND BURTON WERE HAMMOCK WAS LAST SEEN AND 8 MILES FROM 76 AND CRAFT WHERE HER BODY WAS DUMPED. A SPOT THAT WAS ALSO 4 MILES FROM MARTIN'S JOB. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL.
HE INDICATED THAT DURING HIS TIME IN GRAND RAPIDS. HE DIDN'T USE PROSTITUTES ONLINE RECORDS SHOW HARTMAN ALSO USED AT LEAST 10 MAILING ADDRESSES MOSTLY IN KENT COUNTY FROM 1992 TO 2018 TO 25 YEARS. HE HE WAS A TRUCK DRIVER AND HE DID NOT HAVE A SPECIFIC RESIDENCE.
YOU KNOW YOUR SIDE. YOU YOU ALSO SAID YOU'RE NOT REALLY WHAT HE WAS.
IN OCTOBER '96, THE SAME MONTH. 4 BODIES WERE FOUND ELLEN WAS WORKING AT SKY RUNNERS WHERE A GUY NAMED ARTMAN, THEN 38 YEARS OLD, DELIVERED AIR FREIGHT AROUND WASN'T. WAS IT RIGHT THE WAY HE SPOKE ABOUT COLLECTION.
AARDMAN. SHE SAYS BRAGGED ABOUT HIS COLLECTION OF SWORDS AND KNIVES EVEN BROUGHT THEM TO WORK AND ONCE THREATENED TO SLICE UP HIS BOSS WHO FILED A REPORT WITH KENT WITH POLICE.
IF THE. HIRED HIM, HE WAS AFRAID RETALIATION.
THE BOSS DOCUMENTED HARTMAN'S VIOLENT TEMPER AND THREATS OF REVENGE. AND IN THIS HANDWRITTEN NOTE, A YOUNG ALLEN ADDED SHE HAD BEEN AFRAID TO BE ALONE IN THE OFFICE WITH HIM.
WHILE YOU WORKING WITH DID YOU KNOW HIS HISTORY.
NO.
I DID NOT REALIZE HE HAD A RECORD.
IN OCTOBER. 1980, 16 YEARS BEFORE DETECTIVES SAY ARTMAN MURDERED SHARON HANEKE, 2 TEENAGE GIRLS IN HIS HOMETOWN OF PORT HURON ASKED HIM IF HE KNEW WHERE THEY CAN BUY POT. HE WAS 22 YEARS OLD AND BACK HOME AFTER A STINT IN THE MARINES. WHAT THE GIRLS DIDN'T KNOW. ARTMAN WAS ALREADY OUT ON BOND ON A CHARGE HE RAPED A WOMAN. HE HAD GIVEN A RIDE. HE WOULD DO THE SAME TO THE 2 TEENAGERS THREATENING TO SLIT REPEATEDLY FOR HOURS.
GETS CONVICTED. HE SERVES. I THINK 11 YEARS, 11 YEARS FOR 3 WOMEN IN 2 SEPARATE VICIOUS ATTACKS. ANDY BURTON WHACK IS RETIRED FBI. YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE REASON THAT HE GOT CONVICTED BECAUSE THE VICTIM TESTIFIED AGAINST HIM. SHE WAS THIS CAN'T HAPPEN AGAIN. WHILE PREDATORS ME THINK THAT THEY'D SURELY KEEP IT TO THEMSELVES RIGHT.
NOT VERY ARTMAN, NOT REPORT FILED THE YEAR AFTER HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON. CORRECTIONS OFFICERS WANT TO DETECTIVES TO LOOK AT HARTMAN AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT IN THE ABDUCTION AND RAPE NEAR ANN. THEY TOLD STATE POLICE ARTMAN WAS THREATENING TO MANY D O C EMPLOYEES, ESPECIALLY FEMALES. THE REPORT QUOTED HIM AS RELEASE THAT NEXT TIME HE WOULD NOT LEAVE ANY WITNESSES TO HIS CRIME. SOME PEOPLE GO TO PRISON.
AND THEY USE. THAT IS AS LIKE TRADE SCHOOL TO BETTER REFINE THEIR CRAFT.
WE DON'T KNOW. IS THE STATE WARNS POLICE IN GRAND RAPIDS THAT GARY CONVICTED. RAPIST CITY'S RED-LIGHT DISTRICTS.
RELEASED FROM AN EYE ON YOUR PRISON IN JUNE, 1990 TO LANDED AT THE HOTEL GROUND 0 FOR THE MURDER SPREE THAT WOULD START 18 MONTHS LATER AND LIKELY CLAIM 17 WOMEN BEFORE THE CHILLING SEEM TO STOP SUDDENLY AROUND HALLOWEEN 1996. THE SERIAL ATTACKS NOTED SOME DETECTIVES INDEED SHORTLY BEFORE AN EARLY SUSPECT JAMAL.
GARY ARMED MEN CHARGED IN A 1996 RAPE AND MURDER IN GRAND RAPIDS CALLED WEST MICHIGAN ONLINE RECORDS. BUT HE WAS TRANSIENT FOR MUCH OF THAT TIME TRAVELING THE COUNTRY AND WHAT POLICE HAVE DUBBED A MOBILE CRIME SCENE. THE CAB OF A SEMI TRUCK.
COME ALONG MORE. HAVE MELLOW. GOT ALONG EVERYBODY.
SHE WAS IN HER EARLY 20'S, A NEW MOM AND TALENTED ARTIST WHEN IT STARTED.
SHE WENT TO SERIES OF BREAKDOWNS.
IS DIAGNOSED AS READING.
WIND GUSTS TO SHUCK STARTED SHOWING SIGNS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA AS A YOUNG ADULT. SHE GOING FOR TREATMENT BUT END UP.
WIN OVER THE ROAD TRUCKER. GARY HARTMAN WAS CHARGED WITH THE 1996 MURDER OF A GRAND RAPIDS WOMAN. THE FAMILIES OF OTHER VICTIMS FROM THAT SAME TIME PERIOD HAVE ONE QUESTION. WAS IT POSSIBLE ARTMAN WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDERS OF ANY OF THE OTHER WOMEN AND IF SO, DO POLICE HAVE THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE IT. ON THE BANKS OF THE GRAND RIVER. A CRIME SCENE IN CRIMSON THROUGH THE LENS OF WALKER POLICE.
WATCH A BUT FIRE.
WE.
TRAILS. WHY.
THE TRAIL TAKES YOU BACK TO SUMMER. 1995 IN THE HOURS AFTER A WOMAN WAS FOUND BEATEN TO DEATH.
WITH SCHOOL.
WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT CREAM US RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU CAN. ALWAYS IS BECAUSE SHE DESERVES JUSTICE AND BE AT PEACE.
AND BE ABLE TO REST BECAUSE SHE CAN. YEAH.
I DON'T SYRUP. MILLER WAS 7 WHEN HER MOM PAM FOR REALLY A 33 YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF 3 WAS MURDERED STEPS FROM THE RIVER'S EDGE, DRAGGED. AND DON'T. THEY THESE OTHER ARTICLES THAT THERE'S NO FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM. NO BABY WE'VE MADE SEVERAL COPIES OF JUST THE POLICE REPORTS DETAILING HER MOM'S FINAL TERRIFYING MOMENTS YEAH, THIS IS ALL I GOT REALLY. SO YEAH.
AND I ONLY HAVE I ONLY HAVE ONE PICTURE.
I HEARD TO BE ANOTHER LIKE NUMBER. NATIONWIDE JUST SOME PROCESS TO A DRUG ADDICT. YOU THOSE ARE HER LIFE BUT THAT DIDN'T MAKE HER WHO SHE WAS IDENTIFIED HER AS A PERSON WHO STOLE VERY GOOD PERSON. PEOPLE LOVED HER PEOPLE. WANTED TO BE HER OR KNOW HER BE WITH HER.
BROOKE MUELLER DOESN'T THINK HER MOM'S MURDER WAS CONNECTED TO THE OTHERS. SHE BELIEVES IT WAS PERSONAL TIED TO HER MOM'S ALLEGE WORK AS A DRUG INFORMANT A RULE, SHE SAYS, FOR REALLY PLAN TO QUIT FOUND MURDERED, BUT I JUST WANT TO KNOW. WHO DID IT.
YOU KNOW, AND FOR MY PEACE OF MIND OR MY SISTER OR MY DAD SAID THAT.
2 MONTHS AFTER WE INTERVIEWED FOR MILLER. WE'RE BACK.
NEW.
AS I.
POLICE HAVE NEWS TO SHARE THEY HAD TESTED DNA. THEY THINK LEAST KILLER LEFT AT THE SCENE AGAINST GARY ARGUMENT. THE MAN CHARGED IN THE SHARON HANEKE DAY. YEAH. IT WAS NOT A MATCH, NOT TO CARRY AND NOT TO ANY DNA IN CODIS. THE FBI DATABASE. THE WALKER POLICE DETECTIVE TOLD BROOKE MILLER THEY HOPE NETTING TO KNEEL AND SHE CAN FINALLY SOLVE THE MYSTERY AND I JUST BE THE SAME.
I'M GOING ANYWHERE FROM WAY.
BROOKE MUELLER DOESN'T TRUST EASILY DOESN'T LIKE TO SHOW EMOTION EITHER. SHE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. FIRST WHY SHE BURST INTO TEARS WHEN SHE RECONNECTED WITH A COUSIN AS AN ADULT, SOMETHING SO FAMILIAR. I THINK THAT LIKE.
I DON'T REMEMBER. I DIDN'T REMEMBER SOUNDED LIKE OR ANYTHING ENTIRE HERD OF PLACE. SO. WHEN WE COME BACK.
YES, I WAS CALLING TO SEE IF I COULD.
GET ANY INFORMATION ON MY.
IN THE MID 1990'S, 13 WOMEN WERE FOUND MURDERED IN AND VANISHED. THERE'S BEEN AN ARREST IN ONE OF THE MURDERS THAT OF SHARON HANEKE. WE KNOW THE DNA OF ALLEGED KILLER GARY AARDMAN DID NOT MATCH IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE OTHER MURDERS. BUT SOME POLICE AGENCIES WOULD NOT REVEAL WHAT DNA IS ANY THEY HAVE TO COMPARE.
TOOK A DOZEN DEATH RECORDS TO ANDY BLACK RETIRED FBI.
ONE TRAUMA STRANGULATION US FIX.
THERE'S NOT ENOUGH DETAIL. HE SAYS TO KNOW HOW MANY OF THE MURDERS MIGHT BE CONNECTED. STILL JUST BASED OFF THE EMMYS REPORT. THERE ARE SOME SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS HERE. SIMILAR TIME FRAME TO THE FIRST WOMAN DISAPPEARED IN DECEMBER '93 THE LAST MURDER LIKELY HAPPENED IN ARTMAN ARRIVED ON DIVISION AVENUE IN JUNE OF '92 AND LIVED AND WORKED IN GRAND RAPIDS THROUGH '96. LATER HITTING THE ROAD AS A CROSS-COUNTRY TRUCK. IT WASN'T UNTIL 2018 THAT HE MOVED HOME BASE TO FLORIDA WHERE POLICE SEARCHED A STORAGE UNIT. HE RENTED AND SAY THEY FOUND SEVERAL PAIRS OF WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR. NO DOUBT POLICE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY BELONG TO ANY OF THE 17 WOMEN. THE FIRST MURDER VICTIM LISA GOLDBERG WAS FOUND NAKED AND STRANGLED 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS WHERE SHE WAS LAST SEEN.
I THINK DAN IS THE ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO SOLVE THIS CASE ANY OF THESE CASES.
POLICE HAVE SEVERAL LEADS TO DEATH OF A LOCAL WOMAN.
CANDY CATER BERG DIDN'T KNOW SKI AND POLICE WERE ACTIVELY WORKING HER MOM'S 1994 MURDER.
LOCATIONS OF THE 11 BODIES.
BERG TOLD US SHE WANTS TO KNOW IF THERE'S EVEN A CHANCE. POLICE HAVE THE KILLER'S DNA EVEN IF IT NEVER LEADS TO AN ARREST.
YES, I WAS CALLING TO SEE.