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List Of Homicides In Wisconsin
This is a list of homicides in Wisconsin. This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of Wisconsin that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into three subject areas as follows: # Multiple homicides – homicides having multiple victims. # Serial killers – persons who murder three or more persons with the incidents taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them # Single homicides – notable homicides involving a single fatality Among the works dealing with homicides in Wisconsin are '' Wisconsin Murders'' by August Derleth August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the ... and ''Got Murder? The Shocking Story of Wisconsin's Notorious Killers'' by Martin Hintz. Mult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homicide
Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no intent to cause harm. Homicides can be divided into many overlapping legal categories, such as murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, assassination, killing in war (either following the laws of war or as a war crime), euthanasia, and capital punishment, depending on the circumstances of the death. These different types of homicides are often treated very differently in human societies; some are considered crimes, while others are permitted or even ordered by the legal system. Criminality Criminal homicide takes many forms including accidental killing or murder. Criminal homicide is divided into two broad categories, murder and manslaughter, based upon the state of mind and intent of the person who commits the homicide. A report ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Ratzmann
Terry Michael Ratzmann (April 29, 1960 – March 12, 2005) was an American mass murderer who killed seven members of his Church congregation, the Living Church of God (LCG), before committing suicide in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 2005. Background Previously living with his mother and sister, Ratzmann was known as an avid gardener who often shared his homegrown produce with the church congregation and had a passion for carnivorous plants. He was a computer technician with a placement firm and his contract was ending. Ratzmann was known to suffer from bouts of depression, and was reportedly infuriated by a sermon the minister had given two weeks earlier. Shooting Ratzmann had left the Sheraton Hotel building 20 minutes earlier. He then returned carrying a 9mm Beretta handgun and fired 22 rounds into the Living Church of God congregation, killing the minister and six others, including the minister's son. Four others, including the minister's wife, were wounded, one cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashlee Martinson
Ashlee Anne Rose Martinson (born March 6, 1998) is an American woman convicted of the 2015 murders of her mother and stepfather, which she committed the day after her 17th birthday. Martinson's case received international attention. Martinson later pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 23 years in prison. Background She remained estranged from her biological father and lived with her mother, stepfather, two stepsisters and a half sister. She had moved to Rhinelander, Wisconsin with her family at age sixteen. Martinson was allegedly verbally abused by Thomas "Tony" Ayers, in the events leading up to his murder. He had also verbally and physically abused both his wife and his biological daughters in the household. These details were confirmed by her younger siblings. Martinson also claimed she had been physically abused and raped for a period of two years by a former boyfriend of her mother's. During her interviews, experts believed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Allis, Wisconsin
West Allis is a city in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. A suburb of Milwaukee, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The population was 60,325 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. History The name West Allis derives from Edward P. Allis, whose Edward P. Allis Company was a large Milwaukee-area manufacturing firm in the late 19th century. In 1901, the Allis company became Allis-Chalmers, and in 1902 built a large new manufacturing plant west of its existing plant. The locale in which the new plant was constructed was at the time called North Greenfield, and prior to the 1880s had been called Honey Creek. With the building of the western Allis plant, the area was incorporated as the Village of West Allis, and it became the City of West Allis in 1906. With the presence of Allis-Chalmers, the largest manufacturer in the area, West Allis became the largest suburb of Milwaukee in the early 20th century. After that, West Allis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Zelich
Steven Mark Zelich (born October 29, 1961) is an American convicted murderer and former police officer for West Allis, Wisconsin, who was dubbed the "Wisconsin Suitcase Murderer" by the press. Zelich lured his two victims through sadomasochism websites, committing one murder in Wisconsin and one in Minnesota between 2012 and 2013. He is known for his dumping of the victims' bodies in suitcases on a roadway in Wisconsin. He pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to ''de facto'' life in prison in 2017. Murders Zelich frequented S&M websites under the alias “mrhandcuffs”, where he searched for submissive sex slave partners. He met his two victims, 19-year-old Jenny Gamez and 37-year-old Laura Simonson through the sites. Gamez was killed in Wisconsin in August 2012 and Simonson was killed in Minnesota on November 2013. Zelich claimed both died accidentally during sex. He admitted that after causing their deaths, he put their bodies into suitcases and hid them in his ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Falls, Wisconsin
River Falls is a city in Pierce County, Wisconsin, Pierce and St. Croix County, Wisconsin, St. Croix counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is adjacent to the River Falls (town), Wisconsin, Town of River Falls in Pierce County and the Kinnickinnic, Wisconsin, Town of Kinnickinnic in St. Croix County. River Falls is the most populous city in Pierce County. The population was 16,182 at th2020 census with 11,851 residing in Pierce County and 3,149 in St. Croix County. It is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and located approximately east of the center of that region. River Falls is the home of the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. History The city's first settlers were Joel Foster and his Indentured servitude, indentured servant, Dick, in 1848. The village was started as Kinnickinnic in 1854 by brothers Nathaniel N. and Oliver S. Powell (Wisconsin politician), Oliver S. Powell, who were from St. Lawrence County, New York. At the time, the town and village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Schaffhausen
Aaron Schaffhausen is a man who murdered his three daughters in their house in River Falls, Wisconsin in 2012. Background Aaron and Jessica Schaffhausen married in 2000 and both filed for divorce in 2011; the divorce was finalized in January of the next year. Jessica Schaffhausen, who had primary physical custody, lived with their daughters, Amara, Sophie, and Cecilia in a house in River Falls that they rented from Aaron Schaffhausen, while he lived in Minot, North Dakota. The two parties had joint custody. Amara and Sophie attended Greenwood Elementary School. Crime On July 10, 2012, Schaffhausen sent a text message to his ex-wife requesting a visit to their daughters. His ex-wife was not present at the house, and the babysitter left after Schaffhausen arrived. He slit the throats of the three girls. He also strangled Cecilia. Amara, Sophie, and Cecilia were 11, 8, and 5. Schaffhausen later called his ex-wife to tell her that he had killed them. A can of gasoline was spilled ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azana Spa Shooting
On October 21, 2012, a shooting occurred at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. Four people, including the shooter by suicide, died in the incident; four others were injured. The shooter was identified as 45-year-old Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, the estranged husband of a spa worker killed in the shooting. Events On October 21, 2012, Haughton arrived at the Azana Spa at 200 North Moorland Road by taxi, wearing a camouflage outfit and carrying a backpack. When he didn't see the car of his ex-wife (who was one of those killed), he and the taxi driver ate at a nearby Burger King restaurant. Haughton paid the driver with a $20 tip and left after seeing his ex-wife's car in the parking lot. He was described by the driver as shaking, even stumbling, as he walked from the cab to the spa. Haughton entered the spa building at 11:09 a.m. He was confronted by his ex-wife, who tried to speak calmly to him, but he grabbed her by the hair and fired four shot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
Oak Creek is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located in Milwaukee County, it sits on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and is located immediately south of Milwaukee. The city is one of the fastest growing in Milwaukee County and all of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census the population was 36,497. The area has experienced an economic boom in recent years, with the addition of large companies such as Amazon, IKEA, and the Astronautics Corporation of America. History On January 2, 1838, the territorial legislature divided Milwaukee County into two towns: the Town of Milwaukee, encompassing everything north of the present Greenfield Avenue, and the Town of Lake encompassing everything south of the present Greenfield Avenue; "and the polls of election shall be opened at the house of Elisha Higgins, in said town." On March 8, 1839, a new Town of Kinnikennick was created, encompassing the western part of Lake (later the Towns of Greenfield and Franklin); and on August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shooting
On August 5, 2012, a mass shooting took place at the gurdwara (Sikh temple) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, United States where 40-year-old Wade Michael Page fatally shot six people and wounded four others. A seventh victim died of his wounds in 2020. Page committed suicide by shooting himself in the head after he was shot in the hip by a responding police officer. Page was an American white supremacist and Army veteran from Cudahy, Wisconsin. Apart from the shooter, all of the dead were members of the Sikh faith. The incident drew responses from President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Dignitaries attended candlelight vigils in countries such as the U.S., Canada, and India. First Lady Michelle Obama visited the temple on August 23, 2012. Shooting and police response The temple was preparing ''langar'', a Sikh communal meal, for later in the day. Witnesses suggested that women and children would have been at the temple preparing for the meal at the time of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milwaukee
Milwaukee ( ), officially the City of Milwaukee, is both the most populous and most densely populated city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County. With a population of 577,222 at the 2020 census, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States, and the second largest city on Lake Michigan's shore behind Chicago. It is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area, the fourth-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest. Milwaukee is considered a global city, categorized as "Gamma minus" by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, with a regional GDP of over $102 billion in 2020. Today, Milwaukee is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse cities in the U.S. However, it continues to be one of the most racially segregated, largely as a result of early-20th-century redlining. Its history was heavily influenced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolanda Brown (singer)
Yolanda Rose "LaLa" Brown (May 20, 1986 – October 19, 2007) was an American R&B singer best known for being featured on the track " S.E.X." with Lyfe Jennings, which reached No. 3 on the ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 in October 2006. Brown and her record producer JeTannue "Kool Aid" Clayborn were murdered on October 19, 2007, at a recording studio in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The case remains unsolved. Early life Yolanda Rose "LaLa" Brown was born on May 20, 1986, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Maria and William Brown. Brown's mother is of Mexican descent. Her father is African American. She was the youngest of five children. Her parents had stated that she had a talent for entertainment "from her first steps, always singing and dancing around the house." Therefore, it was no surprise to those who knew her when she began to pursue a career in music. At the age of eleven, Brown started singing professionally, using the stage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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