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In 1985, Suzanne Collins was a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who was kidnapped, raped, and murdered while stationed on the military base in Millington, Tennessee. Law enforcement charged Sedley Alley with the crime and he claimed to have multiple personality disorder.
Tanna Togstad, and her boyfriend, Timothy Mumbrue, were found stabbed to death in Tanna’s Royalton, WI farmhouse on March 21, 1992. Police identified Tony Haase as a suspect after a DNA sample was taken from him during a traffic stop. Tanna’s father had been involved in a snowmobile accident that resulted in the death of Haase’s father.
21-year-old Brittany Zimmermann was murdered in her downtown Madison, WI apartment, after taking an exam. Transient David Kahl broke into her Doty Street rental and repeatedly stabbed her when she was on the phone with 911.
Neil LaFave was a DNA warden who was killed in the Sensiba Wildlife Area in Green Bay by 21-year-old Brian Hussong. LaFave issued a citation to Hussong for hunting out of season and this was what sparked the crime.
On December 8, 2005, Angela Drake was at the Dry Bean Saloon in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. She left the bar with a man and never returned home the following day.
Paul Ware from Chattanooga, Tennessee, was the first person ever tried in the United States using mitochondrial DNA testing. He was convicted of murdering and raping 4-year-old Lindsey Green.
In 2007, 30-year-old Lara Plamann was found shot to death on her rural Wisconsin property. Despite a decade-long investigation, no one has been charged with her murder, and the case remains unsolved.
22-year-old Theresa Wesolowski was found lying face down on the ground a few blocks from where she worked. Someone had stabbed her over 40 times. It took 10 years to arrest her coworker Mark Libecki, who claimed another coworker killed Theresa.
15-year-old Charlene Dvorak was found barely alive in a secluded municipal park by a railroad bridge. She died two days later. 2 classmates were responsible for the crime. 15-year-old Garland Hampton immersed himself in gang culture because of his childhood trauma and shot his friend over $100 dollars that went missing.
Carol Knepp was murdered on February 19, 1996, right after she celebrated a year of marriage to Gary Knepp. They purportedly had a good relationship, but Gary had an affair with his friend’s wife, Lisa Hostetter, and this extramarital relationship led to the crime.
Lorenzo Fayne was an American serial killer and necrophile who was active from 1989 to 1993. They did not quickly capture him because he lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and East St. Louis, Illinois. Plus, the police were understaffed in a time of record murders and underfunding to where they couldn’t afford car radios.
Sandra and John Maloney were going through a contentious divorce. Sandra Maloney was found dead and burned in her home in 1998. John was a detective and arson investigator who was convicted of the crime.
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Bruce Pardo gunned down his ex-wife’s family while wearing a Santa Suit on Christmas Eve and burned their home down. 9 people died in the massacre. Pardo killed himself a few hours later in his brother’s home.
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The Green Bay Diocese moved child molesting priest, John Feeney, from city to city instead of investigating the serious allegations against him. The cover-up by the Diocese went far beyond one priest, and for decades, they were moving priests from city to city to outrun sexual assault accusations.
James Nichols shot and killed Cha Vang, a 30-year-old Hmong hunter from Green Bay and tried to claim self-defense. This was the second major incident that took place between Hmong and White hunters in northern Wisconsin and increased tensions in the state.
