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Published: Saturday, August 26, 2017 @ 9:22 AM Updated: Monday, August 28, 2017 @ 10:50 AM By: Breaking News Staff UPDATE @ 10:50 a.m. (Aug. 28):  Ohio Task Force 1 will head to the southern part of Houston to perform boat rescues , after the Houston area received over 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Harvey .  LATEST: Hurricane Harvey slams into Texas coast MORE: Photos: Hurricane Harvey causes widespread damage The task force has been given a window until around noon Central Time before water will be released from a levy or dam.  News Center 7’s Gabrielle Enright remains with Ohio Task Force 1 in Texas, and we’ll continue to update this page as we learn more.  UPDATE @ 6:20 p.m. (Aug. 27) Ohio Task Force 1 is in Katy, outside Houston, ready to operate water rescue missions . The Houston area has been deluged by ‘unprecedented flooding” from torrential rains from Tropical Storm Harvey . Rainfall totals are approaching 20 inches, recorded at the Houston Intercontinental Airpor...

On Aug. 9, 2007, Lansing police discovered the beaten body of 46-year-old Debra Renfors in her apartment in the 1000 block of North Washington Street . Renfors was the third woman to be bludgeoned to death in the city in two weeks, and a grim reality was beginning to set in. Det. Sgt. Joey Dionise confronted Captain Ray Hall , giving voice to a fear that had been bubbling for days. “Captain,” Dionise said, ”We have a serial killer. Years later, Hall still remembers the “sinking feeling” that accompanied that moment. Ten years ago this month, Lansing was in the grip of a killer who preyed on single women, using whatever was convenient to murder them, and, in some instances, sexually assaulting them. Before police caught him, he had killed five women in just over four weeks. A sixth woman would survive. Matthew Emmanuel Macon , then 27, was eventually convicted of two of the murders, and the assault of the surviving victim. When detectives got Macon in an interview room, it would take ...