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FROM THE FRONT PAGE DETROIT FREE PRESS WWW.FREEP.COM 6 A FRIDAY. AUG. 31. 2007 GOING ON NOW Victims all lived alone, police say LABOR DAY By SUZETTE HACKNEY FREfc PKtSS STAFF RITER Willow St. A 1 '4 milt -ri 9 Si: -i' .1 oi -'5 wf Saginaw St.

rs -a Saginaw St. General Motors 1 Ottawa St. 1c 1 I A I CLEARANCE Allegan St I "frwi I LANSING fcC 5 I Kalamazoo St, MtPlesanK i Flint 1 15 -AM- V-Detroit. Lansim 0 i i "If II i AN nn AN fv In five weeks: 6 women attacked, 5 killed The latest homicide occurred Wednesday on the city's east side. Police say the homicides may be related to an attack on a woman Tuesday.

0 DEBORAH KAYE COOKE RUTH HALLMAN Details I Date: Thursday, July 26 (Died July 28) Time: Between 8:30 a.m. i and 10:30 a.m. I Location: 1014 W. Lapeer Genesee neighborhood DEBRA RENFORS Details I Date: Thursday, Aug. 9 I Time: Found at about 1 p.m.

I Location: 1017 N. Washington Old TownWalnut neighborhood The crimes all appeared to fit a profile. The victims were women who lived alone and were beaten. But Thursday, Lansing police said residents could rest a little easier. A man authorities say is responsible for five homicides and one assault starting in late July and continuing through Wednesday had been arrested.

The spree by day and victim: I July 26: Ruth Hallman, 76, a neighborhood activist and mother of Lansing Council-woman Carol Wood, was found beaten in her West Lapeer Street home. She died from the injuries two days later. Hall-man had long stood for safe streets and often provided information to police about drug houses. I Aug. 7: Deborah Kaye Cooke, 36.

Her body was found in Hunter Park on the city's east side. Officers were on routine patrol about 4:30 a.m. when they spotted her body next to a tree. She was bloodied and beaten in the face and naked below the waist. I Aug.

9: Debra Renfors, 46, was found dead in her new home in the 1000 block of North Washington in the Old Town district. Friends said Renfors was trying to leave a life of prostitution and would clean homes to avoid the temptation of returning to the streets. She moved from Mt. Clemens to Lansing about seven years ago. I Monday: Sandra Eichorn, 64, was found dead in a home she was renting in the 1800 block of South Genesee on the west side.

Eichorn, a General Motors Corp. plant retiree, had been Details I Date: Tuesday, Aug. 7 I Time: Found at about 4:30 a.m. Location: Hunter Park, Kalamazoo Street, Allen neighborhood WW 0) A KAREN DELGADO-YATES TUESDAY'S ATTACK A 56-year-old woman was Details attacked in her home. I SANDRA EICHORN Details Date: Monday, Aug.

27 I Time: Found in the evening I Location: 1813 S. Genesee Drive I Date: Wednesday, Aug. 29 I Time: Discovered at 2:28 p.m. I Location: 1115 Hickory St. 3 1 mi Lansing State Journal Yates also had a history of prostitution and had lived in a homeless shelter for a while.

Contact SUZETTE HACKNEY at 313-222-6614 or shoe kneyfreepress.com. The Lansing State Journal contributed to this report. was a NASCAR fan. I Tuesday: A 56-year-old woman was assaulted in her home in the 200 block of Jones Street on the east side. The woman was able to call police from her home after the assault.

Police said the attacker, who claimed to be looking for work, entered her back door and struck her in the head. The woman's dog scared off the man and he fled. Police said the woman's description and evidence inside the home led them to the suspect. Police would not identify the victim, who has been released from the hospital. I Wednesday: Karen Delgado-Yates, 41, was found injured in a vacant house in the 1100 block of Hickory Street.

Investors interested in buying the house found Delgado-Yates. She died on the way to the hospital. illDiyidlip) renting the house for about a year and lived by herself. She HOMICIDES I Lansing residents exhale 4 after arrest of suspect in 5 homicides From Page 1A i SI I i I 5 tween the killings and a series of unsolved rapes in the city in 2003. 1 I if 1 Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said the man in custody would be charged today in a Monday assault that killed Sandra Eichorn, 64, a General Motors retiree who lived alone.

Dunnings said charges for the other at tacks would be issued later. Dunnings said it was unusu al for such a case of multiple homicides to be solved so quickly. Neighborhood activists said the killings have made neighbors more aware of safety precautions and of other people. "Oh, God, I was enormously relieved," Joan Nelson said of the arrest. She heads a neighborhood development agency near a popular city park where the beaten body of one of the victims was found by police on patrol on Aug.

7. The assaults Tuesday and Wednesday occurred in that same area. "The neighborhood has been on high alert," Nelson said. "People have been jumpy, angry, fearful, as you would expect." On the city's south side, community watch director Andrea Amble, 32, said she has been busy showing residents how to make their homes more secure, even though the killings occurred far from her neighborhood. Make sure your back porch lights work, she told them.

She showed them how to use makeshift alarms, such as a glass vase balanced on a windowsill to announce an invader. "People had assumed all the murders had been connected in some way," Amble said. "The biggest concern was, don't want that to happen to The first victim was Ruth Hallman, 76, who had battled drug dealers in her neighborhood just west of the Capitol. Hallman died July 28, two days after she was beaten, not far from where Eichorn was found dead on Monday. Hallman's daughter, Carol Wood, is a member of the Lansing City Council and lived in the same neighborhood as Hallman.

Despite the homicides, Wood said she feels safe in the city as a single, middle-aged woman. "We always have to be cautious," she said. "Hopefully, it's a lesson we can take away from this watch out for one another. Look for things in your neighborhood that are not normal." Contact CHRIS CHRISTOFF at 517-372-8660 or christoffiaifreepress.com. cant home on Hickory Street.

She died later in the day at nearby Sparrow Hospital. Across the street from the home, neighbor Steve Hitchcock, 52, said Yates apparently was homeless and was discovered by a prospective buyer who'd come to look over the home. Two other assaults occurred not far from the house. Hitchcock said that after the attacks, some in the neighborhood stayed up late on their porches with lights on. Meu Alohamanaloa, 51, shares the rental home with Hitchcock and two others.

She said the attacks made her afraid to stay in her house alone, or to go out without someone to accompany her. "I was really scared to death. All those women were about my age," Alohamanaloa said Thursday, sitting on her front porch and wearing a Michigan State University jersey. She said she's not completely relieved: "I hope they got the right guy. I'm still scared.

They might have the wrong guy." The FBI and Michigan State Police assisted with the All six assaults occurred within a short distance of downtown and the Capitol building. They rattled a city where violent crime is not an overriding worry, though the 14 homicides this year equals the combined total for 2005 and 2006. The latest victim was Karen Delgado-Yates, 41, who was found Wednesday afternoon beaten and barely alive in a va fit) macys macys.com Photo galleries for every game: Tigers, Pistons, Wings, Lions mS Jt I i fen a. iS "EXCLUDES OR HER: Designer and Bridge Apparel; St. John; Burton; Swimwear; Juniors' Apparel and Dresses; Designer, Bridge, Coach, Juicy Couture and Dooney i Bourfce Handbags; Jewelry; Fashion Watches; Women's Shoes.

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