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72 FBI L. Enforcement Bull. 16 (2003)
Lethal Predators and Future Dangerousness

handle is hein.journals/fbileb72 and id is 122 raw text is: n the summer of 1978, police in East Lansing, Michigan, ar- rested a baby-faced criminal justice student and youth minister witnesses had seen running from a house following the assault and rape of a 14-year-old girl and the stabbing of her 13-year-old brother. Fortunately, both children survived and ably assisted police during the investigation. The subject, then in his early 20s, was no stranger to Lansing police officers when they arrested him. For many months, they had considered him a suspect in the disappearance of four area women, beginning with his fiancee who vanished on the first day of 1977 after spending New Year's Eve with him. Local detectives and prosecutors believed that he was re- sponsible, but, despite exhaustive efforts, they never developed enough evidence to charge him in any of the cases. Moreover, in three of the four cases, police never found the women's bodies. After the subject's subsequent conviction, prosecutors offered him a plea bargain in the other cases. He would lead authorities to the bodies of his victims, allowing authorities to close the cases and the families to end their anguished un- certainty. In exchange, he would be prosecuted for manslaughter, with sentences to run concurrently with the 30- to 50-year term he already was serving. The missing women's families agreed to the deal and so did the subject. Because of statutory sentencing guidelines, including mandatory good time, he was scheduled for release in February 1999.1 The county prosecutor who oversaw the plea bargain remem- bered the subject as cunning, reli- giously obsessed, deceptive. He did not look physically threatening or dangerous, anything but. 2 He re- mained calm and composed during the long investigation, so com- posed that he went over to one 16 / FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

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