Gale Cook

Murdered

A woman is found strangled eight days after she is last seen.
Gale Annette Cook, a 39-year-old woman, was found dead on October 12, 1995, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was last seen on October 4, 1995, near Front Ave SW and Wealthy St SW. Eight days later, her body was discovered in a wooded area near Leonard Street, and she had been strangled with a ligature. Gale Cook’s death was part of a series of 17 cases involving women who went missing or were killed in the Grand Rapids area during the mid-1990s. These cases received limited media coverage and re ...Read More

Murdered or missing in Grand Rapids: 17 women

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