Wisconsin police are seeking information after a dead baby was found in a field in Whitewater, a city about 50 miles west of Milwaukee. Whitewater Police and emergency medical personnel were called to the scene shortly after 11 a.m. on Saturday, WISN reports. Investigators have not said how old the infant was or commented on …
Police are searching for two men in a green car who allegedly attempted to entice children into the vehicle. Officials said an incident on January 2 in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, was the second time the same vehicle stopped two girls, ages 6 and 7, while the passenger tried to speak with them, WDJT reported. The girls …
A Wisconsin father and son have been arrested in a murder-for-hire plot against the heir to a family estate. The intended victim of the plot is the son of 62-year-old Joseph Anthony Hoppa and brother 38-year-old Jason P. Hopp, who have each been charged with a count of solicitation of firs degree intentional homicide, WBAY …
A jury took less than an hour Tuesday to return a guilty verdict for a Wisconsin father accused of stabbing his two children to death in February 2020. Matthew Beyer, 38, denied killing 5-year-old William Beyer and 3-year-old Danielle Beyer at their mother’s home in Kaukauna they day before the parents were to appear in …
The Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into a post on the social media site Reddit claiming to be from a juror in the trial of Darrell Brooks, charged with intentionally driving through the Waukesha Christmas Parade last year, killing six and injuring dozens more.
Update: The Amber Alert for 15-year-old Kryssy King has been canceled after the girl was found safe, Dryden Wire reported. Trevor Blackburn was taken into custody by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and the City of Superior Police Department. Original story: Wisconsin authorities have issued an Amber Alert for a 15-year-old girl who hasn’t been …
A judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Darrell Brooks, charged with intentionally driving into the Waukesha Christmas parade in 2021, is competent to represent himself when his trial begin with jury selection on Monday.
The man charged in a deadly stabbing spree during a Wisconsin river tubing venture on Saturday told officers after his arrest that he was “attacked” and “in self-defense mode” when he stabbed a 17-year-old boy to death and seriously injured four other people. Nicolae Miu, 52, made his first court appearance on Monday, when he …
An angry Wisconsin man fired indiscriminately a home this week, striking his 5-year-old niece in the chest and damaging her spine. At John Jackson’s bond hearing on Saturday, prosecutors said Ke’yari Redding may never walk again. The little girl’s mother, Asia Jackson, told WITI that her daughter is making progress although she remains in critical …
Tubing on Wisconsin’s Apple River remained shut down Sunday as detectives investigated a 52-year-old man’s fatal stabbing spree on Saturday. A 17-year-old boy was killed in the attack and four other people — three men and a woman, all in their 20s — were seriously injured. St Croix County Sheriff Scott Knudson said that formal …
Update: 8:45 p.m.: St Croix Sheriff Scott Knudson said at least two victims were airlifted to Regions Hospital and the other were transported by ambulance. The 17-year-old was taken by ambulance to Lakeview Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to KMSP. Original story: A 17-year-old boy was fatally stabbed and four others seriously hurt …
Police and fire officials are investigating after a “suspicious” fire left one person dead in Chippewa Fall, Wisconsin, on Wednesday. Investigators did not release the identity of the victim but named Scott Vaningan, 58, as a suspect in both the fire and death, WEAU reported. Vaningan lived in the house that caught fire, police said, …
