Suspected Killer Will Not Have Murder Charge Dropped

24 Hour News 8 reports, a Muskegon County judge has denied a request by suspected serial killer Jeffrey Willis to dismiss one of the murder cases against him.Willis’ defense team had moved to dismiss the Rebekah Bletsch murder case, claiming detectives and guards violated his constitutional rights when they took notes from his jail cell. They say the notes included details about a separate kidnapping case, where Willis claimed to be the day Bletsch was killed, and explanation for evidence found in his van. They say the notes included details about a separate kidnapping case, where Willis claimed to be the day Bletsch was killed, and explanation for evidence found in his van.Defense attorneys claim it gave the prosecution part of their playbook. But in an 8-page ruling, Circuit Judge William Marietti sided with the prosecutor, saying Willis’s rights were not violated.The prosecutor says jail guards in August found four pages of handwritten notes — an apparent journal — in a jail jumpsuit Willis had turned in for laundry. They say the notes were potentially incriminating but that Willis never said they were for his attorney.The jail shared them with investigators but not the prosecutor’s office, the prosecutor wrote.


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