Police are investigating after six people were found dead at a home in northwest Milwaukee on Sunday. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said the deaths are being investigated as homicides, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Police officers conducted a welfare check at the residence shortly before 4 p.m., Assistant Police Chief Paul Formolo …
Prosecutors on Wednesday filed dozens more charges against a man accused of driving through a Wisconsin Christmas parade in November, killing six people and injuring more than 60. Darrell Brooks, 39, has already been charged with six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. The 71 new counts charge him with 61 counts of recklessly endangering safety, …
An Alabama man has been jailed after he allegedly tried to hire someone to kidnap and rape a woman in Wisconsin he met online but had never met in person. FBI agents arrested Matthias Jacob Edward Mann, 22, on Thursday at his family home in Hartselle. He faces multiple charges, including attempted kidnapping and attempting …
A Wisconsin woman died on Thursday, eight days after she was attacked by her family’s dog while protecting her 4-year-old son. Heather Pingel, 35, and her son were home alone at the family’s Bowler residence at the time of the December 8 incident. Pingel’s boyfriend and the boy’s father, Shane Bernarde, told the Wausau Daily …
Jessalyn Torres spent her Thanksgiving on a ventilator at Children’s Wisconsin Hospital. It was the same the day after, and again on Saturday. But the 11-year-old Waukesha XTreme Dance Team member — one of four children who are still in serious condition after they were struck by a speeding SUV during the Waukesha Christmas Parade …
The body of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy was found in a dumpster Thursday afternoon, days after his mother was found slain outside a Milwaukee home. Major Harris, the subject of a statewide AMBER Alert, was last seen on October 9 in La Crosse, where he lived with his mother, Mallery M. Muenzenberger, 25. But Muezenberger …
A Wisconsin man and his 4-month-old daughter who walked away from a car crash and disappeared Thursday night have been found safe. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt said that Jordan Smack, 24, and his daughter Serenity were found at a residence Friday morning, WBAY reported. “The circumstances surrounding the crash and what occurred …
A Wisconsin couple have been jailed on charges related to the death of their daughter in August. Johnathon and Sumitra Stolp were the adoptive parents of the 5-year-old girl, who died on August 25 after spending 10 days in a medically induced coma, WSAW reported. Police began the investigation on August 15, when Johnathon Stolp …
A 38-year-old Wisconsin woman is being held on a $1 million bail after she allegedly offered a police informant $500 to kill another person. A criminal complaint filed this week in Winnebago County says Melissa A. Smith told the informant the person she wanted killed “had told police [Smith] was selling drugs, had urinated on …
A Wisconsin judge on Thursday ordered the release of one of two women convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case when both were 12-years-old. Then-sixth graders Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser stabbed classmate Payton Leutner 19 times in May 2014 in an attempt to curry favor with the fictional horror character, who, they said, they …
Oen Nicholson forced Laura Johnson to drive him 33 hours to Wisconsin.
A Wisconsin man abruptly pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing his 5-year-old son over a Father’s Day cheesecake, ending his trial after two days of testimony. Travis Stackhouse, 30, initially told police that Sir Amer Stackhouse fell down the stairs while playing with another child on June 21, 2019, as CrimeOnline previously reported. But an autopsy …
