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Ken Kolker

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A reporter at WOOD TV8, NBC affiliate in Grand Rapids, Mich. Worked 30 years at Grand Rapids Press and Saginaw News.
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Convicted killer Jeffrey Willis seeks new trials in two murders Original

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By Ken Kolker
| WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI) Verified
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Twelve years and a day after Rebekah Bletsch was gunned down along a rural road north of Muskegon, Jeffrey Willis was back in a Muskegon County courtroom, claiming he was wrongfully convicted of her murder. Willis wore handcuffs and shackles and a Michigan prison uniform. Bletsch’s family, friends and other supporters packed the gallery.
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2 years later, no arrests in slaying of elderly couple near Sheridan Original

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By Ken Kolker
| WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI) Verified
Editor’s note: The related video above aired May 21, 2026. SIDNEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Wednesday marks two years since an elderly couple was shot to death in their Montcalm County home — and still no arrests. The bodies of Jessie and Virginia Seward, both in their 80s, were discovered on June 26, 2024. Records show they were shot two days before that. Death records show 81-year-old Jessie Seward suffered a single gunshot wound to the head, while his 80-year-old wife was shot more than once.
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Records: Man shot by GRPD had served prison time for murder as a teen Original

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By Ken Kolker
| WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI) Verified
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The man shot and killed by Grand Rapids police over the weekend on the city’s West Side had a long history of mental illness and had served time for a murder committed when he was a teenager, records show. On Monday, his mother was blaming herself, saying she should have never called police on her son. She identified him as 46-year-old Eddie Deans Jr., also known as Eddie Williams. “He wouldn’t be dead if I didn’t call the police,” his mother Freddie Deans said.
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