A Wisconsin man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for a shooting that left a relative and the man’s 2-year-old granddaughter wounded last week. A criminal complaint against 65-year-old Pao Lee says that Lee went into the kitchen of a Sheboygan business at about 10 a.m. on September 5 and initially exchanged pleasantries …
A 15-year-old Wisconsin boy was charged Monday with first degree murder in the death of his grandmother late last month. South Milwaukee Police said they were called to the home on August 27 and found fire personnel working on 68-year-old Elizabeth Totsky to reestablish a pulse, WITI reported. She was taken to a hospital, where …
A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to reckless homicide in the fatal shooting of his 8-year-old stepson earlier this year while trying to “look cool” by showing off his guns. Steven Merkel, 53, is expected to be sentenced on November 20, the Town of Geneva said in a Facebook post. Merkel called 911 at about …
A Wisconsin father pleaded guilty this week to neglecting his 15-year-old daughter, who weighed just 58 pounds when medics were called to the home for an emergency nearly two years ago. Tristan Hull, 40, will return to court for sentencing his October, according to the Wassau Daily Herald. The girl’s stepmother, Brittany Hull, 33, has pleaded …
A Wisconsin judge approved the move of one of the girls involved in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing out of a state mental health hospital where she has been confined since she was 12 years old and to a new facility where she will have more freedom. Morgan Geyser, now 22, will still be in …
A Wisconsin woman was given a miniscule prison sentence after pleading no contest to letting her 72-year-old mother lie in her room in filth while she ran a local true crime website. Elizabeth A. Drake, 40, entered the no contest pleat to charges of intentionally subjecting an individual at risk to abuse and improper animal …
A Wisconsin teenager is behind bars, charged with gunning down his father just two weeks after the dad kicked him out of the apartment where they lived. Police said Corey Williams Jr., 18, and his mother went to the apartment on July 2 to pick up Williams’ siblings, WITI reported. According to a criminal complaint …
A Wisconsin man has been charged after he allegedly raped his ex-girlfriend and then brutally attacked her with a hatchet because “I’m going to prison anyway.” A criminal complaint says that Hayden Daffinson, 34, had come to the woman’s home on Sunday to pick up his belongings after they’d broken up, WLUK reported. Fond du …
A Wisconsin man and woman have been charged in an alleged plot to poison several of his ex-girlfriends with cyanide. The arrests of Paul Van Duyne and Andrea Whitaker prompted a hazmat investigation at several locations in Madison this week, WMTV reported. Dane County Deputy District Attorney William Brown released information about the case at …
A Wisconsin jury deliberated for about 20 minutes before returning a guilty verdict for a man accused of killing a 19-year-old woman and distributing her body parts at several locations near Milwaukee. Maxwell Anderson, son of a prominent insurance executive, was found guilty of first degree homicide, mutilating a corpse, arson, and hiding a corpse …
Warrants have been issued for a Wisconsin couple who failed to appear in court on Thursday to face charges of child abandonment after their two young children were found living “in a completely wild, unkept state” in a squalor-filled apartment in Waukesha. Police were initially called to the scene on January 9 and found the …
A Wisconsin mother was arrested this week after her 1 year old son drowned in the bathtub while she cooked breakfast. Selena Doxzon, 28, told investigators that she bathed her two sons — a 3-year-old and the 1-year-old — then left them in the tub to play while she went into the kitchen, cooked breakfast, …
