Man charged with killing 4 women in western Michigan, including his wife back in 1989
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}This photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Leon Means. Means was charged Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, with killing four women in western Michigan — two this week and his wife and her mother after a prison escape in 1989. (AP Photo/Michigan Department of Corrections) (The Associated Press)
An ex-convict has been charged with killing four women in western Michigan — two this week and two back in 1989 after a prison escape.
A Muskegon County judge signed a murder warrant Wednesday, based on testimony from a Muskegon Heights police officer.
Police Det. Steve White says Leon Means confessed to killing 63-year-old Anna Lawson and 62-year-old Judy Bushman, whose bodies were found at their homes Tuesday in Muskegon Heights, 40 miles northwest of Grand Rapids.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}White says Means also confessed to killing his estranged wife, Cynthia Means, and her mother, Linda Herrera, after escaping from a prison in 1989. He was always suspected in those two deaths but the case was dropped.
The 61-year-old Means is in custody. It wasn't immediately known if he has a lawyer.