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  Michigan detectives have been investigating unsolved murders that are linked to Garry Artman, a convicted killer who died last week in a prison-hospital.
  
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  Kent County detectives spoke with Artman prior to his death, and collected information that led to the reopening homicide investigations.
  
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  The police have linked Artman with a woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago.
  

After interviewing a convicted killer and long-haul driver who died in a prison clinic last week, authorities in Western Michigan are investigating unsolved murders and missing persons cases.

Kent County Sheriff’s Detectives interviewed Garry Artman three times before his death on Thursday in a state Corrections Health Facility in Jackson, Michigan.

Kent County Lt. Eric Brunner stated that detectives “gave information” during their interviews with Artman. They are now working with other agencies to “connect dots” with open homicide or missing piece cases.

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Brunner refused to say what unsolved crimes are being examined or how many are being investigated. However, police in Grand Rapids Michigan have linked Artman with a woman who disappeared nearly 30 years ago.

A Grand Rapids Police spokeswoman stated Wednesday that “interviews with Artman gave enough information for one to conclude that he was responsible for the disappearance of Cathleen Dennis in 1995, but it is unlikely that Dennis’s body will be ever found.”

Grand Rapids detectives met with Artman also before his death. They are now trying to determine whether he has any connection to other missing person or homicides in the city, a spokeswoman stated in an email.

WOOD-TV was the first to report that Artman is being investigated for other crimes.

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John Pyrski told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he did not know if Artman was guilty of other murders. Pyrski said that “if he had, I am glad he finally made it right” by disclosing the crimes.

Artman, age 66, was diagnosed with terminal lung carcinoma. In September, a Michigan jury convicted him for the 1996 murder and rape of Sharon Hammack in Kent County. In October, he was sentenced to life without parole.

Artman was also charged with murder in the 2006 killing of Dusty Shuck in Maryland. Shuck was originally from Silver City in New Mexico. Her body was discovered near a truck-stop along an interstate just outside New Market in Maryland.

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Artman, a Florida resident who lived in White Springs at the time, was arrested by Mississippi authorities in 2022 after Kent County detectives recognized him as a suspect for Hammack’s murder through a DNA analysis performed by a forensic genealogist.

His DNA matched that of Shuck’s murder.

Maryland State Police stated in a news release from 2022 that Kent County sheriff’s investigators searched a Florida storage unit believed to be Artman’s and found several women’s underwear. These were confiscated for biological evidence in order to determine if there were any other victims.

Artman served a decade of his life in Michigan prisons after being convicted in 1981 for criminal sexual conduct.