WZZM 13
June 26, 2015
Two of four murder cases against a Muskegon Heights man were resolved Monday in court.
A Muskegon judge sentenced Leon Means to two sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Means entered a no-contest plea to charges that he killed Anna Lawson and Judy Bushman last October in their Muskegon Heights homes.
During the sentencing hearing, members of the victims’ families spoke to Means before he was lead away by guards.
“You are a cold-blooded murder of women,” said Anna Lawson’s niece Tesa Lee Griffin. “You are a serial killer. You not just a one-time killer; you killed four women, four innocent women. Now if you get out again, God knows how many times you’re going to kill again.”
Family members of the victims say they want Means to be sent to a prison in the Upper Peninsula, so it would be more difficult for his family to visit him.
Means still faces charges for murdering his wife and her mother in 1989. At the time of those crimes he had escaped from prison.