GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The defense attorney for murder and rape suspect Garry Artman has received a delay in the 64-year-old’s next hearing until October.

He made the request because he has 350 pages of police reports to go through from the 1996 murder and rape of 29-year-old Sharon Hammack, whose body was found dumped near Grand Rapids on October 3, 1996.

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Artman lived in the Grand Rapids at the time. Now, he is an over the road semi-truck driver who lives in Florida. He was currently driving for a company located in Alabama and arrested in Mississippi and brought back to Kent County in August.

He was identified as the suspect through genealogy, with researchers comparing DNA left at the scene of Hammack’s murder to samples in public ancestry databases.

Artman is being investigated for the murders of a dozen women in the Kent County area in the mid-1990s. The majority of the 12 Michigan victims, like Hammack, had drug addiction issues and engaged in sex work.