WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION OF HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS

                          In partnership with

The Mount Pleasant Police Department

Presents

                                A 1-Day Training Session

CLOSING COLD CASES (HIGHLIGHTING THE WALTER ELLIS SERIAL MURDER CASE)

Presenters: Kathy Spano, Erik Villarreal, Keith Kopcha, Detectives, Gil Hernandez, Special Agent

Earn a Graduate Certificate in CSI – Fully online

The University of South Florida’s Crime Scene Investigations for Violent Crimes Graduate Certificate provides students with an in-depth exposure to specific incident reconstruction, event reconstruction, and physical evidence reconstruction. All courses in the program are centered around investigations in homicide, cold case, missing and unidentified persons, and crimes against children.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) – A teenage boy fatally shot a 47-year-old woman before shooting himself with the shotgun at a rural Wisconsin Rapids home, the Wood County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.

The shooting that killed Theresa Coates happened about 10 p.m. Monday at 6010 Church Ave. in the Town of Saratoga following a “brief disturbance,” Capt. Quentin Ellis said in a statement.

RHINELANDER (WAOW) -- A 33-year-old Tomahawk woman was convicted Thursday of participating in the killing of her uncle more than a decade ago, according to online Oneida County court records.

Latoya Wolf pleaded no contest to being party to second-degree homicide in a plea deal that amended the original charge of participating in first-degree intentional homicide, court records said.

Kenneth Wells was found dead in the Wisconsin River in June 2003 in what investigators originally thought was an apparent drowning.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU)- An Eau Claire man is behind bars after police say he kidnapped a woman with the intention of selling her for sex.

28-year old Nicholas Billiot faces five charges including kidnapping and false imprisonment. According to the criminal complaint, the 19-year old victim told investigators on Monday, Billiot forced her into a vehicle and took her to an Eau Claire hotel.

While there, Billiot told her he was going to arrange for several men to have sex with her for money. Billiot was taken into custody on Tuesday and appeared in court Thursday morning.

SPARTA — A 23-year-old woman was on her way home from work early Sept. 9, 2013, when a man she had never met tried to abduct her with the intent to kill.

Daniel Pickett told investigators he was going to put her in the trunk but didn’t know where he would take her since it was a “spur-of-the-moment decision.”

“It’s barbaric. It’s every person’s nightmare. A random act of violence,” Monroe County District Attorney Kevin Croninger said Thursday during sentencing. “No person should have to spend time thinking there was a random person who tried to kill them for no reason.”

Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation Case Report Case/Report Number: 15-1570/105

DCI Case #15-1570/105 - Final Case Report - Officer-Involved Death - 05/11/2015

Trooper - Trevor John Casper Suspect - Steven Timothy Snyder

Summary of Events

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) -- A 20-year-old man has been convicted in a fatal shooting outside a tavern in Outagamie County.

A jury found Alejandro Silva, of Oneida, guilty Thursday night of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of 24-year-old Kamewan Salzman. He was shot in the chest outside Benderz Bar in the Town of Oneida Aug. 10, 2013.

The jury rejected defense claims that Silva had been afraid for his life after having been attacked and kicked in the head. The defense claimed the crowd was advancing toward Silva when he aimed at the ground and pulled the trigger.

MADISON (WKOW) -- Online court records show the man accused of striking and killing a woman with his car last month has been found not competent to stand trial.

The records shows prosecutors did not challenge a doctor's findings that Adam Sutter is not competent.

Sutter, 25, was ordered to be committed and treated, and prosecutors requested a status update in 90 days.

Sutter, of Sauk City, is charged with first degree reckless homicide in the death of Sara Wolf, 36, of Madison.

JUNEAU (WKOW) --  A Fitchburg teenager faces an attempted first degree intentional homicide charge, and other felony charges, after authorities say he shot and wounded a retail store employee as the worked tried to stop the teen's shoplifting.

A Dodge County court commissioner Friday set bail for 17-year old Jared Spencer at $250,000.