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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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Read More »Wisconsin serial killer dies in South Dakota (UPDATE)
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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Read More »State’s Supreme Court passes on serial-killing appeal
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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Read More »Convicted serial killer appeals to Wis. high court
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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Read More »DA: No DNA tests needed in homicide cases (UPDATE)
By 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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Read More »Man wrongly convicted of murder sues city, police (UPDATE)
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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Read More »Half of missing DNA samples collected in Wisconsin
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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Read More »Man accused of killing 7 women pleads no contest
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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