By: Associated Press//June 20, 2019//
MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — An 82-year-old man will go on trial on two counts of first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a couple at a Wisconsin park 43 years ago.
A judge in Marinette County found on Wednesday that there’s enough evidence to send the case against Raymand Vannieuwenhoven to trial.
Vannieuwenhoven is accused in the killing of 25-year-old David Schuldes and 24-year-old Ellen Matheys in 1976 at McClintock Park in Silver Cliff, about 200 miles north of Milwaukee.
WLUK-TV reports sheriff’s detective Todd Baldwin testified Wednesday that tests of Vannieuwenhoven’s DNA from a licked envelope matched DNA from the crime scene.
Investigators had no major leads until last year, when a DNA lab in Virginia identified the genealogical background of the suspect.
Vannieuwenhoven is scheduled to enter a plea on July 1.