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The Detroit East Side Killer is an as-of-yet unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered at least four people over a period of 5 months, and left their bodies in abandoned buildings in downtown Detroit, Michigan.

Victims
Annetta Nelson, 57, was found deceased on February 26, 2018, in a vacant house in the 11620 block of Winthrop Street on Detroit's west side. Police found a used condom at the scene and her cause of death was determined to be a homicide caused by blunt force trauma. Later that month, security camera footage surfaced of a man dragging a woman's lifeless body out of a vacant home on the city's west side. Police arrested a man, but prosecutors cleared him.

On March 19 2019, the body of Nancy Harrison, 52, was found on Conventry Street, a secluded, residential area. Detroit Police Chief James Craig said, initially, they believed Nancy died from an overdose and that they only learned that she had been the victim of a homicide two months later. However, a spokesperson for the Wayne County Medical Examiner later stated that Harrison's cause of death was determined on March 20, the day after her body wad found, as homicide by blunt force trauma. Her nose was broken, there were abrasions and contusions to her face and hands, and an examination of her head showed she suffered multiple blows.

On May 15, Travesene Ellis, 53, was reported missing. She had last been seen on April 21 in the 13000 block of Linnhurst Street. Two weeks later, on May 24, her body was found in the area, dumped in an abandoned house. The cause and manner of Ellis' death were undetermined by medical examiners due to the advanced decomposition of her body, but a used condom was found at the scene.

June 5, the final reported victim so far, Tamara 'Tammy' Jones, 55, was found on Mack Avenue, near Mt. Elliot Street. There was a used condom at the scene and, as with Ellis, her body was too decomposed to determine her cause of death. Jones worked as a panhandler, and had two children.

The families of both Harrison and Jones deny that the allegations made by police that the women were working as prostitutes.

Potential Victims
Yvonne Cobern, 45, was found dead and wrapped in a carpet on June 10.

A missing woman named Deborah Reynolds was found with Martin last summer. Martin was living in a vacant home on Annin Street near Woodward Avenue. Last December, human remains were found in that home. DNA tests are being done to see if the remains belong to Reynolds.

Suspect
Deangelo Martin, 34, was located at a bus stop at 7 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue and arrested on On December 15, 2016, the attorney for Gilbert's family said that an escort who had conducted business with former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke claimed he was connected to the Long Island murders.