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Pair held in Brookfield homicide
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Two people are being held in the death of a Brookfield businessman. According to court records, 63-year-old John Aegerter was beaten and bound, had plastic bags over his head and his face wrapped in duct tape. Police found Aegerter’s body in his garage on Wednesday after he failed to show up […]
Court overturns attempted homicide conviction (UPDATE)
By DINESH RAMDE Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man convicted of severely beating a Brown County gas-station clerk in 1994 had his conviction overturned this week after an appeals court ruled that a statute of limitations should have applied to his case. Rodney A. Larson was charged in 2008 with attempted first-degree intentional […]
Man charged in toddler’s death in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 25-year-old man has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of his girlfriend’s 1-year-old daughter in Milwaukee last week. Antwan Adams Jr. made his first court appearance Tuesday in the death of Janaya Hicks. The Milwaukee County medical examiner says the girl died of blunt force injuries of the […]
Teen to enter pleas in Portage County stabbings
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (AP) — A teenager is expected to enter pleas next month to charges he stabbed three people in Portage County in May, killing one of them. Several witnesses, including the two survivors, testified Thursday about the May 15 stabbing in the town of New Hope, resulting in the death of Karen Dombrowski […]
Man gets life without parole in 4 homicides
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Desmond Dejuan Laster has been sentenced to four life terms with no chance for parole in the killings of two boys, their mom and a female accomplice. The 22-year-old was convicted in March of four counts of being party to first-degree intentional homicide. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Laster made no statement […]
Wis. man gets 31 years for drunken driving death
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 31 years in prison for killing a woman in Kenosha County while drunken driving. Jorge Dominquez was convicted in April of 15 charges, including homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, in the May 31, 2010 crash that killed 45-year-old Dawn Glogovsky. The Journal Times […]
Milwaukee man charged in fatal restaurant shooting
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man has been charged with opening fire in a restaurant, killing one man and critically injuring his brother. Twenty-six-year-old Frank J. Brown was charged Friday with first-degree intentional homicide and attempted first-degree intentional homicide. According to the criminal complaint, Brown and two friends were at the restaurant Tuesday about 1 […]
Neillsville man enters insanity plea in 2002 deaths
SPARTA, Wis. (AP) — A man has been bound over for trial in the 2002 homicides of a couple in Monroe County. Larry Schaffer, of Neillsville, is charged with two counts each of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse, all as a party to the crime. According to a criminal complaint, police arrested the […]
Suspect charged in 2007 New London stabbing
NEW LONDON, Wis. (AP) — A New London man has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in a 2007 stabbing death. The criminal complaint alleges 35-year-old Chad W. Magolski killed 77-year-old James L. Park in Park’s New London apartment in December 2007. Magolski lived in a different unit in the building at the time. The […]
AG’s office to prosecute suspect in ’07 homicide case
NEW LONDON, Wis. (AP) — New London police say they’ve made an arrest in an old homicide case. Seventy-seven-year-old James Park was found stabbed to death in his New London apartment in 2007. Police say a 35-year-old New London man has been arrested after the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation helped work on the case. […]
Jury convicts man of intentional homicide
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A Chippewa County jury has convicted a man of first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend. Jurors on Wednesday rejected William Vollbrecht’s claim that the shooting was unintentional and due to the accidental discharge of his firearm. The Chippewa Herald reports the defense had asked […]
Grandson charged with developer’s murder (UPDATE)
Seventeen-year-old Richard Wilson was charged Tuesday in Waukesha County Circuit Court with first-degree intentional homicide of his grandfather, Ron Siepmann, a Pewaukee developer. If convicted, Wilson, a Fox Point resident, could be sentenced to life in prison. According to the criminal complaint, Martha Wilson — Richard Wilson’s mother and Siepmann’s daughter — found Sie[...]
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