Man charged in decades-old slaying

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A 62-year-old man was charged in the shooting death of a female University of Michigan law-school student 35 years ago, one of seven slayings that terrorized two Michigan college towns in the 1960s.

Gary E. Leiterman was arrested Wednesday and held without bail in the 1969 slaying of Jane L. Mixer, then 23.

Seven female students were found dead in or near Ann Arbor and nearby Ypsilanti in the late 1960s. The killings stopped in 1969 with the arrest of John Norman Collins, then 21.

Collins was convicted of strangling Karen Sue Beineman, an 18-year-old Eastern Michigan University student, and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Authorities had called Collins a suspect in the other killings, but he was never charged.

Investigators and prosecutors declined to release further details of Leiterman's arrest.

Mixer was a first-year law student. She was last seen March 20, 1969, when police said she told her boyfriend she had arranged for a ride to Muskegon.

Her body was found the next day in a cemetery. She had been shot twice in the head; investigators said they believed she was killed elsewhere.