Debra Renfors

Occupation: Unknown; record of prostitution
Housing status: Renter
Age: 46
Date: Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007
Time: Found at 1 p.m.
Location: 1017 N. Washington Ave., Old Town/Walnut neighborhood
Details: No details given on manner of death.
Status: Police say they believe Matthew E. Macon, who is charged in the death of Sandra Eichorn and an assault
on another woman, also may be responsible for Renfors' death. He has not been charged in this case.

Ruth Hallman

Occupation: Neighborhood association president/community activist
Housing status: Lived alone
Age: 76
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 (Died July 28, 2007)
Time: Found at 10:30 a.m.
Location: 1014 W. Lapeer Street, Genesee neighborhood
Details: Found beaten with severe head injuries inside her single-family home.
Status: Police say they believe Matthew E. Macon, who is charged in the death of Sandra Eichorn and an assault
on another woman, also may be responsible for Hallman's death. He has not been charged in this case.

Ruth Hallman was photographed around
5 p.m. on the day before she was assaulted
in her home. With her grandson, Jason Wood,
who is Carol Wood’s son, and his daughter,
Emily. Photo courtesy of Carol Wood

Sandra Eichorn

Occupation: Retired GM worker
Housing status: Lived alone, rented
Age: 64
Date: Monday, Aug. 27, 2007
Time: Found in the evening
Location: 1813 S. Genesee Drive
Details: Found beaten inside her home. Police believe Eichorn's death may be connected to the death
of Ruth Hallman and an attack on a 56-year-old woman on Jones Street.
Status: Police have charged Matthew Emmanuel Macon with Eichorn's death.

Karen Louise Delgado-Yates

Time: Found at 2:28 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007.
Location: 1115 Hickory St.
Details: Delgado-Yates was found inside the home by investors who were looking to buy the house.
She was taken to Sparrow Hospital, where she died.
Status: Police say they believe Matthew E. Macon, who is charged in the death of Sandra Eichorn and an assault
on another woman, also may be responsible for Delgado-Yates' death. He has not been charged in this case.

Linde Tucker, 32, grips a portrait of her sister Karen Delgado Yates, who
was found dead Aug. 29 in a house on Hickory Street in Lansing.
(ERIC SEALS/Detroit Free Press)

Deborah Kaye Cooke

Occupation: Waitress; record of prostitution
Age: 36
Date: Tuesday, Aug. 7
Time: Found at 4:30 a.m.
Location: Hunter Park, Kalamazoo Street, Allen neighborhood
Details: Found partially naked in the park, beaten about the head and sexually assaulted.
Status: Police say they believe Matthew E. Macon, who is charged in the death of Sandra Eichorn and an assault
on another woman, also may be responsible for Cooke's death. He has not been charged in this case.

Carolyn Kronenberg