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I'm Jen Carpenter and this is So Dead podcast.

Welcome to season two of So Dead guys.

Happy True Crime Tuesday.

It's been a while, so we've got a lot to talk about, but we're going to save all of that for the end of the show.

Today's episode was a rough one for me to write and research, because this one hits really close to home, quite literally.

There's something about watching a crime unfold as it's happening, thinking that you know

the facts, and then revisiting it years later, and finding out that it was so much worse than

you remember.

And discovering things that don't necessarily make sense in retrospect, things that raise

new questions, I have lost more sleep and been more stressed over this story than anything that I've

covered for the podcast so far. I guess what I'm saying is I'm starting 2020 out with a bang.

This is a long one and a very disturbing one. So there's your content warning if you need such a thing.

All right. Let's do it.

Between January 1998 and August 2007, the city of Lansing was terrorized by a series of violent attacks that were eerily similar.

All of the victims were women living within a few miles of the state capital.

Most of them were attacked in their own homes in broad daylight. The M.O. was often the same,

and the suspect's description was always the same. Over the years, several Lansing men were

arrested, some of whom were later released. More than a decade later,

questions remain. Were these crimes connected? Is everyone responsible behind bars? And could any of it

have been prevented? Lansing is Michigan's capital city and is located in the center of the lower

peninsula or the middle

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