Matthew "Chilly" Emmanuel Macon Named Suspect in Michigan Serial Murders
Suspected serial killer Matthew E. Macon is expected to stand trial April 28 without further pretrial hearings.
On July 26, 2007, the authorities said, the activist, Ruth Hallman, 76, was beaten in her home. She died two days later.
The next three victims, all fatally beaten, were Deborah Cooke, 36; Debra Renfors, 46; and Karen Delgado-Yates, 41. All had histories of prostitution, according to the police and court records. Ms. Delgado-Yates’s body was found in a vacant house. Ms. Cooke’s body was found in Hunter Park.
Sandra Eichorn, 64, a General Motors retiree, was found dead in the rented house where she lived alone. Ms. Eichorn was also beaten, the police said.
A 56-year-old whom the police would not identify was struck on the head near the back door of her home, but her dog chased away the assailant. The victim, who was hospitalized and released, gave the police information for the sketch of the suspect.
Mr. Macon was arraigned on charges related to a home invasion not associated with the five attacks, the authorities said, but to a violation of the sex offender registry law.
Calling him a serial killer, the police have asked prosecutors to charge Mr. Macon with the death of Ms. Eichorn and the attack on the woman who lived. The authorities are also seeking warrants charging him with the deaths of Ms. Cooke, Ms. Hallman, Ms. Renfors and Ms. Delgado-Yates.
The police said Mr. Macon beat and killed Barbara Tuttle, 45, in 2004 in the house where he is accused of killing Ms. Renfors.
A state police detective told the Lansing State Journal last year Macon confessed to the 2005 murder of a Lansing Community College professor. Macon has not been charged in that case.
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05/08/08
GUILTY
It was a quick day in court for Matthew E. Macon. The prosecution and defense closed their cases, gave their closing statements, and sent it to the jury. The Jury spent less than,2 hours in deliberations and found him Guilty of all five counts.
1. 1st degree murder of Sandra Eichorn
2. Assault on Linda Jackson
3. Home Invasion of Linda Jackson's home
4. 1st degree murder of Karen Delgado-Yates
5. Torture of Karen Delgado-Yates
Police have said Macon is suspected in the slayings of five other women in Lansing, but the 28-year-old hasn't been charged in those cases.
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05/07/08
Wednesday
According to the Lansing State Journal, the defense attorney, Mike O'Briant said he could begin calling witnesses Thursday, May 8.
Defense attorney Mike O'Briant expects the prosecution, which began its case Monday, to call one more witness.
After that, "I've only got one or two witnesses," O'Briant said. He did not say who his witnesses will be. During jury selection, O'Briant said Macon would not take the stand.
If the trial proceeds as O'Briant expects - and it is difficult to predict for sure what will happen in any trial - both sides could present closing arguments Thursday and the case would then go to the jury.
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III today did not dispute O'Briant's time frame.
"That could happen," Dunnings said.
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05/06/07
Tuesday's Testimony
Prosecutors continued to present evidence showing that Macon was near the scenes of all three attacks.
Lansing police Detective James Gill testified that he reviewed surveillance video from Sparrow Hospital, taken Aug. 28, that shows Macon at the hospital between about 12:05 p.m. and 12:20 p.m.
The hospital is blocks away from all three crime scenes.
Sparrow Hospital Forensic Pathologist Dr. Phillip Croft described how Delgado-Yates was beaten severely including with the lid of a porcelain toilet tank. Her skull was fractured and her cause of death was blunt force injuries to the head. Croft said she also suffered four broken ribs and bruising all over her body.
He also testified that Delgado-Yates' injuries could have been suffered as along as 24 hours before she was found barely alive.
Karl Suni, an expert in footprint analysis from the Michigan State Police crime lab, said four of the shoe prints taken from the basement steps of 1115 Hickory St. matched the left shoe of the size 10 ½ Nike Air Jordan shoes, owned by Macon.
A forensic scientist testified this afternoon that a blood-stained work glove found near a homicide scene had DNA that matched Matthew E. Macon.
Police found the brown, Stanley work glove in the living room of the 1813 Genesee St. house where 64-year-old Sandra Eichorn was found stabbed more than 30 times.
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05/05/08
Passion For Murder
"Chili's passion was murder," Assistant Prosecutor Catherine Emerson said during opening statements, on Monday Morning.
Macon's attorney, however, said Macon's brother is responsible for Eichorn's death and the attack on Jackson.
The first prosecution witness called was Gerald Lehman, 42, of Lansing. Lehman is Eichorn's son.
Lehman gave emotional testimony about how he found his mother dead in her home on Aug. 27.
"I laid my hand on her back and used the phone to call 911," he said.
A former Ingham County Jail inmate testified this morning that Macon talked to him about attacking Chapel Jackson last fall.
The man, Aundrey Hubbard, testified that he rode in a jail transportation van from the courthouse last fall with Macon.
Hubbard said that Macon, speaking of Chapel Jackson, told him, “he should have finished her off and he would have had less problems.”
The frantic call Linda Jackson placed to 911 just minutes after being bashed over the head with a beer bottle was played in court Monday.
"Help me!... Please! 222 Jones St.!... He came in, he was asking for work, he hit me from behind... I'm bleeding all over."
"I remember at least two blows," she said on the jury stand. "They were hard blows. If I'd had more, I wouldn't be here."
Matthew Macon is charged in the August killings of 64-year-old Sandra Eichorn and 41-year-old Karen Delgado-Yates and in an assault on 56-year-old Linda Chapel Jackson.
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05/03/08
Jury Selected
The twelve panel jury, and four alternates, for the Matthew Macon trial has been chosen and the trial of an accused serial killer will be heard on Monday morning, May 5th, opening with statements by the prosecution and defense.
Macon, 28, of Lansing, is charged in the killings of Sandra Eichorn, 64, and Karen Delgado-Yates, 41, and in an assault on Linda Chapel Jackson, 56. He also is charged with torture in the Delgado-Yates case.
Although Matthew E. Macon is only charged with 2 murders and an assault, in this trial, police have said he is a suspect in at least five other homicides dating back to 2004.
Mike O’Briant, Macon's attorney, renewed his request that the trial be moved to another county. Ingham County Chief Circuit Judge William Collette denied the request.
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05/01/08
Last minute complaints from defense
Approximately 200 potential jurors were to be sworn in at Veterans Memorial Courthouse, in Lansing Michigan, to start the process of being considered for the trial of suspected serial killer, according to www.lansingstatejournal.com.
The attorney for suspected serial killer Matthew E. Macon filed last-minute court documents today claiming that police and prosecutors have not turned over all the evidence in the case.
• Police reports related to the arrests and interrogation of other suspects in two murders Macon is charged with;
• Surveillance video showing Macon blocks away from the locations of two attacks near the time of the attacks;
• The entire recorded statement from a person who claims “to have heard (Macon) confess.”
Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said he believes that all the evidence in the case has been turned over to O’Briant. He said O’Briant has repeatedly claimed he has not received certain items, when it turned out he had actually received them from prosecutors.
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04/26/08
Short Trial Delay
Earlier Friday Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart DunningIII said Matthew Macon 's trial, which was set to begin Monday, April 28, had been postponed until Wednesday, April 30.
Dunnings would not give a specific reason for the delay in the murder trial of Matthew E. Macon, saying only, “It’s a personal family matter relating to one of the parties.”
The three-time parole violator is charged with killing two Lansing women and is a suspect in the deaths of five others. In all, the series of bloody and brutal slayings has entangled nine families: those of the dead women, that of an eighth victim who survived and the relatives of 28-year-old Macon.
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04/10/08
Defense request denied
Michael O'Briant, Mathew Macon's attorney was denied the request for the discipliary records of Lansing police officers who may testify against him during his murder trial. O'Briant, said he sought the information as a way to impeach investigators who may take the stand.
In his denial, Chief Circuit Judge William Collette said, "I agree with the prosecution that all the personnel files are not fair game in every case."
Macon, 28, is charged in the murders of Sandra Eichorn, 64, and Karen Delgado-Yates, 41, and in an assault on Linda Chapel Jackson, 56. All three attacks occurred in Lansing during the last week in August. Police have linked Macon to the slayings of five other women, but he has not been charged in those cases.
Jury selection in Macon's trial begins April 28.
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Police have said Macon is a suspect in the slayings of five other women, but the 28-year-old hasn't been charged in those cases.