LANSING — Certain crimes can have such an impact on some communities that years or decades later they're still referred to with a single name.

Lansing is no different.

There was the nationwide manhunt that ended with an arrest just across the Mexican border. A woman was shot while walking with her daughter to the zoo. Parents were convicted of murdering their 7-year-old. A man was wrongly convicted of murder, set free only after the confession of a serial killer.

Here's a look at some of the Lansing area's most infamous crimes.

In the summer of 1970, 16-year-old Laurie Murninghan, the daughter of Lansing's onetime mayor, Max Murninghan, was at work at a Lansing gift shop.

A man walked in with a gun and demanded money. He struck the store's owner in the head and fired his gun into the ceiling. Police had a theory that the robber thought he shot the owner so he panicked.

The man took $64 in cash from the store and led Murninghan out at gunpoint.

Eleven days later, her body was found in a wooded, swampy area south of Mason. Police said she had been strangled.

Murninghan's killing drew national attention and officials had at one point identified a suspect, but he was never charged. It was an extensive investigation and they even injected the suspect with a so-called "truth serum," a once-accepted practice, to no avail.

The man served prison time in an unrelated case and died before police and prosecutors could make a case in the Murninghan killing, officials have said.

In August 1978, Don Miller forced his way into the bedroom of a 14-year-old girl, he had gone to her home and asked her for a pencil and paper to write down a phone number.

He raped her. And he began strangling her when her 13-year-old brother entered the home. Miller left the girl to confront her brother, which gave her time to flee the home for help.

Miller was arrested later that day. The following year a judge sentenced him to 30 to 50 years in prison for rape and attempted murder.

But months before he was sentenced, Miller was indicted on murder charges in the deaths of two women, one of whom had been his fiancée. And he admitted to killing two other women.

From 2016:Families, officials fight to keep local serial killer in prison

More:State denies parole for serial killer Don Miller

In exchange for taking police to the bodies of two of the women he killed, Miller was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter charges and was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison.

Because of his plea deal, Miller is eligible to be released on parole. In 1997, a group of concerned family members, residents and officials formed a group to prevent his release. They discovered a prison infraction from 1994 that they relayed into criminal charges for possessing a weapon. It added 20 to 40 years to his sentence.

Miller, 62, came up for parole again last year. It was denied and he won't be eligible for another four years.

A 2-ounce set of plastic handcuffs turned out to be the key evidence 15 years after Jeanette Kirby had been murdered.

Kirby's body was found in 1986 along the banks of the Grand River, in a wooded area in a park. She had been strangled and stabbed multiple times, once in the neck and at least twice in the heart.

Investigators had tracked down leads and conducted hundreds of interviews when, in 1990, a Leelanau County abduction put local investigators onto David Draheim. Leelanau investigators found similar handcuffs to the ones found with Kirby.

Ingham County Sheriff's Office investigators analyzed a metal tab on the handcuffs and determined that a pair made by the manufacturer at the same time would have identical markings from the machine. And they were able to connect the handcuffs found on Kirby to Draheim.

When he went on trial in 2002, Draheim was already in state prison on an unrelated sexual assault charge. The trial spanned more than two weeks and the jury took several days to deliberate before convicting him of second-degree murder. He was later sentenced to 60 to 90 years in prison.

Now 60 years old, his earliest release date is 2050. He's currently held at the Saginaw Correctional Facility in Freeland.

More: Prison inmate charged in woman's '86 slaying

Paige Renkoski, a 30-year-old Okemos woman, was last seen on May 24, 1990, on westbound Interstate 96 in Livingston County, talking to a man standing next to a maroon-colored minivan.

The car she was driving was found hours later, still running with lights on and her shoes and purse inside.

The Livingston County Sheriff's Office has received more than 1,200 tips on Renkowski's disappearance, and likely murder. There were reports that she was seen at a rest stop or driving while being chased by a car on the interstate. Witnesses told police they saw Renkoski talking to a man and gesturing with her hands up in the air while he put a hand on her shoulder.

Police used a sketch artist to draw a suspect description based on witness accounts.

In 2011, investigators used a map from 1999 and ground-penetrating radar to search several areas for Renkoski's remains. They searched a pond, dug holes and used cadaver dogs, but the efforts were unsuccessful.

More than 27 years later, Renkoski's disappearance remains unsolved.

Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy said his department is still investigating but there have been no significant developments. Anyone with information is asked to call 540-7880.

May 30, 1990:Family's spirits lifted by tips that missing woman was seen near maroon van

2015:

Renkoski cold case: 'Someone out there' does know

Mom: 'I hope they can bring my little girl home'

In the early hours of a Tuesday in December 1993, Rose Larner was strangled in the shower of an Albion home. Her throat was slit and her body was cut apart. And later, some 100 miles north in a remote section of Gladwin County, her body was burned.

But for nearly three years, all that was known was that 18-year-old Larner had gone missing.

Her disappearance sparked a massive search and a police investigation that caught a break with a drop of blood in the bathroom where she died and ended with an arrest in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

For years, Billy Brown and John Ortiz-Kehoe had kept quiet about what happened that night in December 1993, but as investigators started to close in, Brown told police what happened to Larner.

The three had been spending the evening together, driving through the country before heading back to the home of Kehoe's grandparents near Albion. Larner and Kehoe, who had previously dated, had sex several times that night. On the drive to the house, the three stopped at a store where Kehoe bought, unknown to the other two, a fillet knife, charcoal lighter fluid, a hatchet and trash bags.

The three spent time outside the home and then went inside, where they took a shower together. As Larner was brushing her hair after, Kehoe walked up behind her and strangled her with a cord. He then slit her throat in the shower with a knife.

Brown later said he saw Kehoe chop Larner's body apart and start to burn it in the basement fireplace. The two men then cleaned up the house, put Larner's remains in a trash bag and started driving north, to a property in Gladwin County that Brown's family owned.

They built a fire pit and burned her remains for 10 hours. At one point, Brown later testified, Kehoe took some of Larner's cook flesh from the fire.

"He put it on a piece of bread with some mustard and ate it," Brown testified. "Just for the experience. Just to know."

The two then drove back south, spreading Larner's ashes along the roadside and highways.

Police spent years searching for Larner's body and investigating her disappearance. They found a trace of her blood in the shower where she was killed.

In April 1996, as detectives started to close in, police said there was a plan to firebomb Brown's home after he spoke to investigators. By that point the search was on for Kehoe and police followed his brother all the way to Mexico. His arrest just across the Texas boarder ended a four-month manhunt.

Brown pleaded guilty to being an accessory after a murder and was sentenced to a year in jail.

Kehoe testified at his 1997 trial, denying that he killed Larner and ate her flesh. He was convicted of first-degree murder.

Now 44, he's serving his sentence, life without the possibility of parole, at the Thumb Correctional Facility in Lapeer. He's had five misconduct violations in state prison, including fighting, possession of dangerous contraband and assault and battery.

Photos: The Rose Larner story

On a June afternoon in 2001, Bernita White and her 5-year-old daughter were walking toward the entrance of Potter Park Zoo.

What happened next has been the subject of investigations by two different police agencies.

White, then 41, was shot with a high-powered rifle from about 100 yards away. She died at the hospital.

Witnesses told police they heard one or two shots that might have come from a wooded area north of the zoo entrance. But no one saw the shooter.

About 20 Lansing police officers, six detectives and every dog tracking team that could get there searched the area. A Michigan State Police helicopter gave investigators an aerial view. Police divers searched for evidence that might have been thrown in the Red Cedar River.

Police even brought in a handler with a cadaver-sniffing dog to help locate evidence. The handler claimed that the dog found a bullet fragment. However, tests showed the fragment did not come from the bullet that killed White. The handler later pleaded guilty to federal charges that she planted bones and other fake evidence in cases she worked. She was not charged for her work in the White case.

Sixteen years later, White's killing remains unsolved. Police previously identified a suspect, but he was never charged.

Both the Lansing Police Department and the Michigan State Police say they're still working the case.

June 24, 2001:Woman dies after shooting at zoo

In July 2005, Tim Holland called 911 to report that his son, 7-year-old Ricky Holland, was missing.

More than 100 volunteers and 30 law enforcement officers searched for Ricky. They found nothing. Police at one point thought Ricky might have run away. There were false sightings as Ricky's disappearance gripped the Lansing area's attention.

Later that year, Tim and Lisa Holland, Ricky's adoptive parents, became suspects.

In January 2006, both Tim and Lisa Holland each told police the other had killed Ricky. Tim Holland took police to Ricky's body and said his wife killed him with a hammer. Testimony during the criminal cases revealed that the Hollands had a long history of abusing Ricky.

Tim Holland pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and Lisa Holland was convicted of first-degree murder.

Lisa Holland, 45, is serving her sentence — life in prison without the possibility of parole — at the Huron Valley Correctional Facility, the state's only prison for women.

Tim Holland was sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison. Now 48, he's being held at the Oaks Correctional Facility in Manistee. His earliest release date is in 2036.

The death of Ricky Holland and other children around that time revealed fatal flaws in the state’s child welfare system and inspired a federal class-action lawsuit that resulted in several court-ordered reforms meant to improve the way the state handles the thousands of child abuse and neglect cases it sees every year. The Michigan Department of Health & Human Services remains under federal court supervision to this day.

2015: Remembering Ricky Holland 10 years later

Find more coverage of Ricky Holland here.

Claude McCollum served more than a year in prison for the 2005 rape and murder of Lansing Community College professor Carolyn Kronenberg, crimes which he did not commit.

McCollum became a suspect within days of Kronenberg's killing and was convicted on Valentine's Day the following year.

Then in August 2007, serial killer Matthew Macon was arrested in an unrelated case and told police that he had raped and killed Kronenberg.

Investigations by police and reporters found that the Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and others had mishandled evidence in McCollum's case. Video showing McCollum in another LCC building when the professor was attacked had never been shown at trial.

Eric Matwiejczyk, the lead prosecutor during McCollum's trial, was fired.

Stuart Dunnings III, who was the prosecuting attorney at the time, later apologized to McCollum, saying, "I'm sorry that people believe that we knew you were not guilty and prosecuted you anyway." Dunnings went on to face his own legal difficulties and last month was released from jail after serving 10 months on prostitution-related charges.

In 2010, McCollum settled a $2 million lawsuit with LCC, whose police department investigated the professor's death.

In May 2008, Macon was convicted of killing two women and severely beating another. He was linked to several other homicides.

Macon, now 38, is serving his sentence — life in prison without the possibility of parole — at the state prison in St. Louis, Michigan.

Macon has 15 misconduct violations since 2009, according to an MDOC email, for infractions like fighting, smuggling, substance abuse or insolence.

More coverage:

Sept. 1, 2007:Man held in serial killings has extensive criminal record

Jan. 20, 2008: Guilty until proven innocent

Jan. 20, 2008: Probe looks for wrongdoing in investigation

Contact Matt Mencarini at (517) 267-1347 or mmencarini@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @MattMencarini.