Wisconsin Law Journal - WI Legal News & Resources > homicide
POSTED: Friday, May 10th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
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Associated Press
A Milwaukee man accused of killing three people in a southwestern Wisconsin farmhouse is confused about the line between reality and delusion, his defense attorney said Friday.
POSTED: Friday, May 3rd, 2013 at 4:42 pm
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Associated Press
A Big Flats man was convicted Friday of killing his mother in 2010, hiding her body and using her checks and credit cards.
POSTED: Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 at 9:59 am
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Associated Press
A 50-year-old Upper Peninsula man charged in the disappearance and slaying of his 79-year-old wife has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges.
POSTED: Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 at 11:29 am
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Associated Press
A jury on Tuesday rejected an insanity defense by a former Wisconsin father who admitted to killing his three young daughters last July, finding he had a mental defect but still understood he was doing something wrong when he slashed his girls’ throats, then tucked their bodies into bed.
POSTED: Monday, April 15th, 2013 at 3:02 pm
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Associated Press
A psychiatrist who evaluated a man accused of killing his three daughters testified the father was mentally aware of his criminal actions.
POSTED: Monday, April 15th, 2013 at 12:14 pm
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Associated Press
The sentencing for a 76-year-old Wisconsin woman convicted of killing her baby more than 50 years ago has been postponed.
POSTED: Thursday, April 11th, 2013 at 10:24 am
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Associated Press
A witness told police that a Lutheran bishop accused of driving drunk when he struck and killed a runner in Sun Prairie on Sunday never braked after the crash and appeared to be trying to flee the scene, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
POSTED: Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 at 9:24 am
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Associated Press
A mother has been sentenced to probation, including a year in jail, for causing the death of her baby in Dane County.
POSTED: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 at 3:34 pm
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Associated Press
The day his ex-wife could legally remarry, Aaron Schaffhausen hopped aboard a train and left North Dakota to go back to Wisconsin. The next day, he cut their three young daughters’ throats, wrapped their necks with his spare T-shirts and tucked them into bed.
POSTED: Thursday, March 14th, 2013 at 10:29 am
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Associated Press
A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld a conviction in a 1980 murder.
POSTED: Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 at 2:00 pm
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Associated Press
A Dane County jury has convicted a Madison man on several counts in an impaired driving crash that killed four people.
POSTED: Thursday, March 7th, 2013 at 12:31 pm
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Associated Press
A Wood County man accused of accidentally shooting his friend while intoxicated has pleaded no contest to a felony charge in an agreement with prosecutors.
POSTED: Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 at 9:49 am
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Associated Press
An Eau Claire man accused of killing a 39-year-old man with a crowbar plans an insanity defense.
POSTED: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
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Associated Press
A judge has ordered a man accused of killing his three young daughters to undergo two separate psychiatric examinations before his trial.
POSTED: Monday, February 18th, 2013 at 10:44 am
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Associated Press
Two Minnesota women and one Wisconsin woman have been charged in connection with a 2007 shooting death in eastern Wisconsin.
POSTED: Thursday, February 14th, 2013 at 9:38 am
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Associated Press
A Bayfield County jury has found a 22-year-old man guilty of reckless homicide in a fatal stabbing on the Lac Courts Oreilles Indian Reservation.
POSTED: Friday, February 1st, 2013 at 10:05 am
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Associated Press
Jurors will be selected outside Door County to hear the case against an Illinois man accused of killing his friend and her unborn baby.
POSTED: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 at 3:37 pm
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Associated Press
A former Wisconsin man accused of beating his autistic half-brother to death and then hiding his body has pleaded not guilty.
POSTED: Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 9:05 am
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Associated Press
A state appeals court has rejected Brendan Dassey’s request for a new trial on charges that he helped kill a young woman in 2005 in one of Wisconsin’s most notorious crimes.
POSTED: Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 at 8:58 am
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Associated Press
Lawyers for a former Wisconsin man accused of killing his autistic half-brother want a judge to move his trial out of Dane County.
POSTED: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 10:28 am
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Associated Press
An Iraq War veteran charged with killing his wife, a suburban Milwaukee police officer, on Christmas Eve pleaded not guilty Thursday during a brief hearing that provided no hint of the defense his attorney plans to mount.
POSTED: Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 10:03 am
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Associated Press
A jury from outside Lafayette County will hear the case against an Argyle man accused of killing his children by setting his house on fire.
POSTED: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 at 3:04 pm
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Associated Press
A Sheboygan teenager charged in his great-grandmother’s killing will no longer seek to have his case tried in juvenile court.
POSTED: Monday, January 21st, 2013 at 12:24 pm
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Associated Press
A Minnesota man accused of killing a La Crosse photography store owner and his son is set to stand trial in May.
POSTED: Monday, January 21st, 2013 at 9:29 am
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WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF
In August 2011, Christopher McNulty stood in his girlfriend’s Sturgeon Bay garage, a 22-caliber rifle in his hands and local police outside the door.
POSTED: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 at 9:20 am
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Associated Press
A special prosecutor is considering felony charges in connection with the death of a suspect while in Milwaukee police custody.
POSTED: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 1:38 pm
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Associated Press
A judge won’t move the trial for a North Dakota construction worker accused of killing his daughters out of St. Croix County.
POSTED: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
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Associated Press
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s spokesman defended the state’s release of a convict charged with killing his mother and kidnapping a woman 36 hours after leaving prison, saying state officials did everything in their power to protect the public.
POSTED: Monday, January 14th, 2013 at 1:09 pm
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Associated Press
A Milwaukee man serving a life sentence for homicide is getting a new trial after the Wisconsin Innocence Project accused the man’s attorney of mounting a bungled defense.
POSTED: Friday, January 11th, 2013 at 10:30 am
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Associated Press
A man accused of fatally shooting his wife has pleaded not guilty in Rusk County Circuit Court.