The City of Milwaukee would pay $6.5 million to a man wrongly convicted of a 1995 murder, under a proposed settlement filed Tuesday.

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A man suspected of killing seven women in Milwaukee over a 21-year-period has died in South Dakota, where he was serving a life prison sentence.

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The state Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Milwaukee man convicted of killing seven women over a 21-year period.

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A Milwaukee man convicted of killing seven women over a 21-year period is asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of his convictions, a step his lawyer acknowledged was a "longshot."

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CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) – A review of 2,100 Milwaukee County homicide convictions from the past two decades did not find a single case in which DNA testing would be warranted to ensure that an innocent person ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A second man who was wrongly convicted of a murder that was later linked to a serial killer has sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department, saying detectives framed him. William Avery, 39, was released ...

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has collected about half of the nearly 18,000 DNA samples missing from the state’s databank. The department’s data shows about 9,300 offenders still owe a DNA sample. About 95 percent of ...

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A man accused of killing seven women over 21 years in Milwaukee pleaded no contest to all charges against him Friday. Fifty-year-old Walter Ellis appeared in Milwaukee County Circuit Court shackled and in a wheelchair. He provided ...

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