Months after a young girl was hit while waiting to board a school bus, authorities have arrested a Wisconsin man and charged him with homicide. Wisconsin Daily Rapids Journal reports that Carl L. Mullenix, 76, faced a judge Tuesday at the Waushara County Circuit Court, in connection with the death of 6-year-old Maryana Kranz. According …
A judge Friday morning ordered the extradition of Kyle Rittenhouse, and the Illinois teenager accused of killing two people at a protest in Kenosha is already in jail in Wisconsin, TMJ4 reports. Rittenhouse, 17, travelled from his home in Illinois on August 25 because of protests after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who was …
Wisconsin police have arrested two men in connection with Wednesday’s hit-and-run that left a 7-year-old girl dead and her mother seriously injured. WISN reported that the two unidentified men, ages 22 and 19, were taken into custody as persons of interest. A car was reportedly racing when it struck the car Londyn Quesada and her …
A new syndicated series from CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace debuts next month, focusing on how new technologies — DNA profiling, genetic genealogy, and familial searches — are helping bring closure to cold cases. “Bloodline Detectives” debuts on October 2. Its second episode, “Murder in the Snow,” takes on the 1984 murder of Wisconsin teenager Traci Hammerberg, …
One of two Wisconsin girls convicted of nearly stabbing a classmate to death to appease the fictional horror character “Slender Man” in 2014 asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to toss out her conviction in adult court, the Associated Press reported. Morgan Geyser, now 18, pleaded guilty to attempted first degree homicide in 2017 …
A Wisconsin man has been charged with killing his girlfriend just hours after she told her sister she had broken up with him, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. Menomonee Falls police were called to the victim’s apartment shortly before midnight by Hasani Monroe, 20, who told them the victim “picked up a knife and stabbed me,” …
Jacob Blake, the man whose shooting by police last month sparked another round of nationwide protests against police brutality, appeared in court from his hospital bed on Friday, entering several not guilty pleas on charges stemming from a domestic incident in May. Blake, who is paralyzed from the waist down from the August 23 shooting …
A Wisconsin man is accused of fatally shooting his neighbor — a community service officer — during a dispute Monday over grass clippings. The Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement that a 65-year-old suspect was taken into custody shortly after Naeem Sarosh’s shooting death. A neighbor told WMTJ that they overheard men arguing before …
The 17-year-old Illinois boy arrested after Tuesday night’s fatal shooting during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been formally charged on a six-count complaint, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with first degree intentional homicide for the murder of Anthony Huber, 26; first-degree reckless homicide for the fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36; …
A Wisconsin inmate serving a 13-year-prison sentence for child abuse has now been charged with his victim’s death six years after he was convicted on the abuse charge, according to WBAY. Mckena Marie Nett, 8, died of pneumonia on June 23, 2017, but doctors said the pneumonia “was linked to the abusive head trauma” caused …
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 …
