Preliminary autopsy results say that Kodie Dutcher, the 10-year-old girl who went missing from her Wisconsin home on Monday, died from “pharmacologic suicide,” the Baraboo Police Department said Thursday. The autopsy, conducted Wednesday, revealed no signs of foul play or abuse, police said. Toxicology results will be back in about two weeks, and the full …
Police shot and killed a man with a shotgun who tried to enter Milwaukee’s VA hospital Monday night, the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal reported. Officials said the man, who has not yet been identified, was stopped by VA police outside the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Administration Medical Center’s east entrance shortly after 8:30 p.m. When police told …
Tribal police in Wisconsin have asked for additional information following reports that a woman who’s been missing since late June may have gotten a ride from someone around the time she vanished. The Menominee Tribal Police Department wrote on Facebook Thursday that they are looking for someone who may have picked up Katelyn Kelly, 22, …
A Wisconsin woman accused of fatally shooting her sexual abuser in 2018 was released from jail Monday, after two years behind bars. Multiple community groups raised $400,000 to pay Chrystul Kizer’s bond. Kizer was 17 when she killed Randall Volar III, 34, in what some have called a case of self-defense, according to the New …
Deputies investigating child sexual assault charges against a Wisconsin man last week found pipe bombs in the basement of his home, the Racine County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. The sheriff’s office launched its investigation into Kyle Gustin of Burlington on June 14 and executed a search warrant the next day. The pipe bombs were stored …
A Wisconsin mother has been charged in the death of her 5-year-old son whose mummified body was found in a duffel bag in the trunk of her car on March 31, Fox 11 reports. The Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office said that Josias Marquez had likely been dead for months when his body was found …
On Wednesday, a Wisconsin man was charged with murdering an elderly man who was found stabbed and beaten in his home last month. Police found Douglas Campbell dead in his Green Bay home on March 17. The Green Bay Press-Gazette reported that officers performed a welfare check after Campbell, 73, missed work that day. A …
A Wisconsin woman was allegedly drunk driving when a man fell from atop her pickup truck, resulting in his death late last month. The Star Tribune reported that Preston Decorah, 27, was found unconscious in a driveway on March 30, hours after an incident that occurred on a rural road in the Hertel area. The …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace has questions about the daughter of a popular Wisconsin doctor and her husband who were found dead — shot in the head — in a ditch in a University of Wisconsin botanical garden late last month. Khari Sanford and Ali’jah Larrue, both 18, have been arrested and charged murders of Dr. Beth …
Demetrius Williams allegedly told cops that he intended to kill his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 3-year-old daughter to get ‘freedom and happiness’
A Wisconsin man who lit his ex-girlfriend ablaze on Valentine’s Day did so because she hadn’t paid her taxes. According to WITI, prosecutors said Javaunte Jefferson, 28, lit Savannah Bailey on fire “because she wouldn’t pay her taxes and was buying other stuff.” After the violent act, Jefferson allegedly drove off — leaving Bailey and …
An ex-sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin was criminally charged on Tuesday for allegedly scouring through obituaries to identify homes that would be empty so she could burglarize them. Janelle Gericke, 29, who was fired from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department in July, is accused of committing the break-ins between February 2018 and June 2019. The Milwaukee …
