Madison Crime – Surrounded by Reality

Police officers killed in the line of duty.

Crime of the Greenbush neighborhood including the Death Corner Murders 1911 – 1932

Did Madison have a serial killer that was never caught? Capital City Murders 1968 – 1984

Madison’s crime of the last century, abduction and murder of 7 year old Annie Lemberger.

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2010+
- 2013
  Jennifer Boyce – Found Murdered, Husband Commits Suicide
  Julia Majette – Shot and Killed, Husband also Shot
  Robert Kuntz – Homeless Man Dies From Beating From Another Homeless Man
  Brent Brozek – Man Shot and Killed After he Charges at Police With Sword
- 2012
  Yandel Castillo – 2 year old intentionally run down by his father
  Craig O'Donnell – Stabbing
  Samuel Harris – Shooting
  Willie Taylor – Dominique Hale is released from prison early only to commit murder
  Darrell Ballweg – "homicidal firearm violence"
  Paul "Paulie" Heenan - Shot three times in the upper torso by Madison Police officer with history of controversy
- 2011
  Jonathan Wilson – Shooting
  Derwin Hawkins – Murdered After a Marijuana Deal Turns Sour
  Michael Keith – Drug deal turns violent
  Kevin & KeMaury McArthur – Toddlers brutally murdered by their mother’s boyfriend.
  Luis Vasquez – Three years old, killed by his mother throwing him against a wall.
  Clifton Jones – Stabbed outside the BP station on S. Park St.
- 2010
  Daniel Thomas – Killed by police after hostage jumps to cover while at credit union.
  Sally Pergolski – Murdered by her son, UW Student, Chase Boruch.
  Rapist Returns to Scene of Crime and is Arrested
  Eugene Walker – Shot Dane County Sheriff's deputy.
  Lorenzo McKittrick – In an alley near the Fitchburg Ridge Shopping Center
  Twanda Thompson, Keyshai Fields, Leona Larry-Burton and Keleasha & Jihad Larry – James Larry massacres family in Chicago, five people and two unborns die.
  Lofton Sprouls – 1100 block Moorland Road
2000s
- 2009
  Child Performer Convicted of Repeated Sexual Assault
  Tracy Judd, Deja Adair, Amber Weigel, Neveah Weigel-Adair – Two ex-girlfriends and two of his children die, Tyrone Adair goes on murder spree, commits suicide.
  Gregory Bickford – Shot by police as he points gun in officers face.
  Karamee Collins – Shot in the 2000 block of Leland Drive, then ran toward nearby Balsam Road, where he collapsed.
  Francesca Weber – Murdered by her husband Steven, a massive manhunt ends with his suicide.
- 2008
  Eduardo Cademartori – Jumped by bouncer and customers he dies in the street.
  Mark Johnson – Beaten to death, 911 does not dispatch police.
  Kyle Dutter – Shot by his father, Ryan, before he then shoots himself.
  Repeat Drunk Driver Crashes, Van Bursts Into Flames
  Juan Bernal – Stabbed and killed over jukebox dispute at the Plaza Bar.
  Man Gets Eight Years in Prison for Stalking Neighbors
  Juan Manuel Avalos-Cisneros – Shot by Fitchburg Police as he reached for the officer's gun.
  Joel Marino – Stabbed to death in his home, his killer eventually found, commits suicide in jail.
  Brittany Zimmermann – Found stabbed in the heart so many times that it thought she had been shot in the chest, 911 operator hangs up. Unsolved
- 2007
  Larry Gardner – Shot in a break-in at an apartment on Cypress Way. Unsolved
  George Thomas – Died from multiple forms of trauma at the King's Inn motel. Unsolved
  Kevin Cobbins – Shot by James Bohanan at a duplex on Loreen Drive on Madison's west side.
  Ronald Brandon – Shot by police after he pointed a gun at officers.
  David Damaschke – Shot by sheriff after he picked up a gun he had been persuaded to drop earlier.
  Kelly Nolan – Missing for two weeks a signal from her cell phone leads searchers to a patch of woods in the town of Dunn. Unsolved
- 2006
- 2005
  Angela Drake – Drugged and left in the freezing cold to die
- 2004
  Gregory Velasquez – Killed by police after he enters day care center with meat cleavers.
  James Perry – Madison's “Mall Rapist” is Finally Caught and Punished
  German Gonzalez (49) Jan 12 - Shot outside Glendale Town Houses 2500 S. Stoughton Rd. Unsolved
  Helen B. Davis (39) May 21 - Stabbed by boyfriend Henry M. Borjas at their E. Gorham home. Borjas then killed himself
  Jennifer Hitchcock (22) Nov 4 (of Lincoln, Neb.) Found shot off Plesant View Rd. Bennir Frier & Maurice Mason charged.
- 2003
  Gregory Bray – Oct 14, Found shot to death at his duplex 6403 Raymond Rd.. Unsolved
  Julio Contreras – Shot by police after he fired at them after a botched robbery attempt.
  Nathaniel Divine – Found behind the wheel of a pickup truck in a parking lot of 2316 Badger Parkway.
  Jason McGuigan, Dustin Wilson & Daniel Swanson – Shot in their apartment in Verona by "Mark" Wu, Wu hangs himself in jail before trial.
  Lloyd & Michael Gentry – Shot down by their stepfather Roger O'Neal at their Taft Street home.
  Alejandro Ortiz (20) Found shot Sept 16 in Berkley Park on the north side. Unsolved
  Adrian Lamont Bowdry (38) Shot July 25 at 2313 Fish Hatchery Rd. botched robbery. Unsolved
- 2002
  Lizzette Muske-Fountain – Shot by boyfriend Thomas McCants in their Fitchburg apartment.
  Boxer Eric Morel Rapes 15 Year Old
  Second Rape in West High School
- 2001
  Kevin Mills – Shot in the parking lot of Kohl's Food Store on Park Street.
  Steven Young – Killed by his girlfriends brother, Kevin Singer, with a knife and small sledge hammer.
  Andrea Leu – Probably killed by Gerald Faulkner but he was found dead just days later.
  Jesse Johnson – Shot by police when he raised a gun at the officers.
  Maurice Washington – From Minneapolis, shot twice in the head by a Chicago man, Tyrees Murray, on Madison's north side.
- 2000
  Sheralyn Taylor – Strangled by Jonathan Ewald at her Sun Prairie home.
  Amy Jo Hodges – Shot in front of her 2 year old son in their home on Pflaum Rd.
1990s
- 1999
  Maria Fernanda Hernandez – 13 months old, beaten and dehydrated dies at UW hospital as her mom and boyfriend flee.
  David Jones – Shot along with his fiancée by Harvey Pierce at the Wal-Mart west.
  Jocko's Rocket Ship Drug Bust
- 1998
  Robert Hansen – Beaten to death by three Monroe teenagers.
  Dennis Richmond – Killed by Joey Fane, found with a gunshot wound to the head on Fisher Street.
  Larry Gorman – Killed by girlfriend Wanda Chavez with a stab to the heart. She waited four days to call police.
  Omar Haban-Megahed – How did he die and why were investigators uncooperative?
- 1997
  Rape of Patty – This complicated case spanned nearly a decade.
  Emma Bacon – Brandon Grady beat, stabbed and performed an “autopsy-like” mutilation on her at the Spence Motel.
  Walter Linder – Killed by Jason Buckckbauer, found shot in Reindahl Park.
  David Stone – Shot 5 times while standing on his Williamson Street porch.
  Timothy Wing – Shot and killed by police. (Mar 21)
- 1996
  Jonathan Daniel – Shot in his apartment on University Ave.
- 1995
  Dwight Senser Murder – Shot in the parking lot of Country Kitchen near East Towne Mall
  Carleton Pugh –
  Ericha Von Hoken – Killed at the Citgo Quick Mart, a telephone cord wrapped around her neck.
  Jill Ripp – Strangled at her apartment, Dale Capps called a Public Defender to confess
  Steve Henderson – Revenge shooting for a drug deal gone bad. Shot while driving on Fisher Street crashing into Penn park.
  Vilayvien Chareun – Hardee’s Robbery turns fatal, her entire face from beneath her eyes to below her chin was covered with duct tape so she couldn't breathe.
  Roman Shcheglov – Struck by multiple bullets to the head and neck in his Atlantic City motel room while on vacation.
- 1994
  Karl Schlicht – Knifed on State Street, died over a month later.
  Sarah Gonstead – Penny Brummer was convicted of the murder but did she do it?
  Dorothy Paige – Stabbed and strangled to death by Melvin Parker in the bedroom of her apartment.
  Sarah Howard – Found dead in the trunk of Arthur Williams car.
  Alipio Pena – Avila Shot and killed by police.
- 1993
  Denise Stark – Killed by "Rambo" at Token Creek Park.
  Lamar Sibley – Shar-Ron Buie shot him five or six times before he went down, then rolled him over and shot him several more times.
  Fontaine Allison – Shot and killed by rival gang member James Dillard at an apartment on West Broadway.
  Randall Olson - Shot by police?
- 1992
  Robert L. Cook – Shot by police
  Robert Rasmussen – Shot by police. Suicide Simpson St.
  James Engelke – Cabbie shot once in the back of the head from inside the cab, found in the median, up against a tree.
  Mark Genna – Beaten so badly police originally thought he had been shot. Unsolved
  Karen Jaster – Murdered outside her apartment on Vera Court.
- 1991
  Damon Smith – Gunned down in the parking lot of an apartment building at 1910 W. Broadway.
  Doris Ann McLeod – Found beaten and mutilated, she went unidentified for months.
  Odis Richmond – From Chicago he was killed by Everett Bonds on W. Badger Rd.
- 1990
  Chad Maurer – Found dead in a car on the south side of Chicago, what really happened? Unsolved
  Mark Starkey – Shot by James Wills because Wills thought he was a "queer".
  Gulzar Chaudry – Killed by Luis Duarte at the Amaco Station on Pflaum Rd.
  John Kippert – Shot in the head by robbers at Picher's Pub where he worked as a bartender.
  Terry Lemke – No one knew what happened to him until Martha Henriksen told police over a year later.
1980s
- 1989
  Debra Beebe – Stabbed more than 33 times by Dean Mark Abdallah who says Satan was in the room.
- 1988
  Quinn Westbury – Shot multiple times and dumped behind a funeral home in Monona.
  Amy Jo Worth – Found in a burning apartment, she had already been viciously beaten by Jefferey Rynes.
  Diann Blatz – Smothered by her estranged husband, Roger Blatz.
  Clyde "Bud" Chamberlain & Eleanor Townsend – Gunned down by Aaron Lindh at the City County Building.
  Cathie Rauwald & Timothy Regan – Shot by Michael J. Person
- 1987
  Richard Webb – Gunshot to the neck on Corry Street.
  Leroy Wilson – Shot trying to break up a fight over a hairdo.
  Diana Crissinger & JonNelle Huddleston – Stabbed in the neck and chest by John Stallins in Penn Park.
  Thomas Steffes – Satan’s Dragons "Motorcycle Gang" kills & mutilates prospect.
  Tricia Schuh – Dies of an overdose, while friends hesitate to call for help, plot to kill another teen to keep her quiet.
- 1986
  Rhonda Smith – Stabbed by her lover, Geraldine Conklin, she lived a month before dying of her injuries.
  Andrew Nehmer – Murdered working at the Open Pantry on S. Park St. Unsolved
- 1985
  Willie Rayford – Blead to death after being stabbed repeatedly in the head and chest by Billy Ray Creech.
  Cindy Denny – Beaten to death by her boyfriend, Scott Dolan, in her Stoughton apartment.
  Raymond Denny – Shot multiple times in his apartment by his roommate, Dennis Wilder.
  Frederick Gage – Killed in a terrorist attack at the Rome airport.
- 1984
  Janet Raasch – Partially clad in a wooded area southeast of Highway 54, the last of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  Rod Michaels – Killed by Rowland Harp? Behind Civic Center.
  Wallace Kalbacken – Asphyxiated, tied to a basement rafter, in a bizarre sex act. Water Wilcoxson charged with murder.
- 1983
  Yvonne Workman – Bound, gagged and shot execution style in the head.
  Carolyn Hudson – Killed by a man hired by her ex-husband.
- 1982
  Donna Mraz – Stabbed repeatedly behind Camp Randall Stadium. One of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  Paula McCormick – Brutal torture and murder of a ten year old.
  Arnold Panell – Shot on State Street
- 1981
  Shirley Droster – Found dead in a Williamson Street apartment.
  Colleen Harvey – Shot on the street by ex boyfriend who commits suicide a few hours later.
  Edwardo Martinez – Stabbed to death in front of a downtown apartment building.
  Evelyn Milliff – Beaten to death by her extremely senile husband.
- 1980
  Shirley Stewart – Found after six months missing, decomposed and unable to establish the exact cause of death. One of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  Kamps Murder – Did the wrong brother do time for her murder?
  Lenny Stone – Gunshot Wound to Head. Member of CC Riders Motorcycle club, shot by a rival club member.
  Patricia Stuart – Strangled with a telephone cord by her estranged husband.
  Danielle York – Shot by her husband, Michael, who then turned the gun on himself.
1970s
- 1979
  Susan LeMahieu – Found lying in the weeds at the UW Arboretum four months after she went missing. One of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  Julie Speerschneider – Her body found more than two years after she disappeared, unable to determine an exact cause of death. One of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  James Fortney – Shot by Wayne Drogsvold through the window from outside Sportsman's Tavern.
- 1978
  Mary Johnson – Raped and murdered by William Zamastil. Her funeral was held the day she was to be married.
  Lee Parker – Murdered, gunshot wound to chest
  Randall Quandt – Shot and Killed by Gerald Schultz
  Julie Ann Hall – Found in a shallow grave along Woodland Rd. in Waunakee. Another of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  Jerry Davies – Killed with cyanide, likely by Barbara Hoffman, although she was not convicted for this murder. Unsolved
- 1977
  Harry Berge – Murdered with cyanide by the infamous Barbara Hoffman.
  Alphonce Manning & Toni Schwenn – Racist Joseph Franklin kills interracial couple in East Towne parking lot, convicted a decade later.
- 1976
  Jeanette Zapata – Disappearance & murder, solved after 31 years.
  Debra Bennett – Charred and decomposed remains found in a gully along Old Sauk Pass Rd. One of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
  Bernice Davidson – Stabbed to death
  Robert Disch – Brutally stabbed and beaten
  Rape in West High School – First of two rapes in the backstage stairwell
  Katherin Williams –
  Samuel Anderson – Stab wound to the neck
  Cheryl Pecosky – Raped and killed by John Allen, found on Dempsey Rd.
  Edwin Warrington – Shot in his apartment
- 1975
- 1974
  Lucila Little – Shot by estranged husband, Allan, in a murder suicide.
  Robert Jones – Eugene Juul guilty homicide by reckless conduct
- 1973
  David Daniels – Shot by police in burglary attempt.
  Norman Pagel – Shot by wife Sally Lee Pagel.
- 1972
  James Samples – Shot by a killer hired by his estranged wife
  Lester Hanson – Wounded by a gunshot at Harold's Club, died ten weeks later
  Mark Justl – Found beaten and stomped to death inside the Joyce Funeral Home where he worked. Unsolved
- 1971
  Roberta Arnold – Died of "throat stragulation by hands". She had also been beaten severly on her face and chest.
  Dr. Thomas Speer – Shot to death at close range, ambush style, outside the Quality Motel. Unsolved
  Richard Brettingen – Shot in a car-jacking on Fish Hatchery Rd.
  Virgil Frosch – Killed by Leon Irby at the 400 Bar
- 1970
  Robert Borchardt – Shot in a traffic altercation at Packers and Commercial Aves
  Jeanne Broomel – Killed by the janitor, Virnell Hunt, at her apartments, Truax Park Apts.
  Robert Fassnacht – Sterling Hall Bombing wakes Madison
1960s
- 1969
  Charles Mumford – Shot three times, found in an alley behind the Stop Lite Tavern. Unsolved
  Rea Norton – Murdered by Gerald Barlow at Jack's Bar
- 1968
  Christine Rothschild – University student, first victim of the Capital City Murders. Unsolved
- 1967
- 1966
  Doris Anne Kenney – Strangles her infant and toddler, hangs self
- 1965
  Harold Koerner and Helen Mary Vernig – Shaot by Charles Belcher who would later be killed by police
  Leroy Erdahl – Shot in the head while working at the Mobil gas station he worked at
- 1964
- 1963
  Jerome McGuigan – Killed by Craig Ankomeus who was found innocent by reason of insanity, spends 10 years in mental hospitals
- 1962
- 1961
- 1960
  Harold Hays & Walter Nelson – Murdered by Hays son Jon "Mickey" Hays
  Hazel Williams – Found in a bathtub stabbed 40-50 times in the chest. Unsolved
  John & Florence Buending – Murder Suicide at their 4609 Windigo Tr. home.
  Charles Kalish Murder –
1950s
- 1957
  Joseph Knock – Shot at the Lark Bowling Lanes where he worked
- 1952
  John Lenz – Beaten on the head with a hammer
- 1951
  Martin Parkinson – Died after fight with former police officer William Ott
1940s
- 1949
  Sadie Jackson – Madison's most notorious murder case ever? A jury found Butch King not guilty by reason of insanity, he served three months in a State Hospital.
  Max Hobert – Missing for ten days his body found, bound, floating in the Yahara River. Unsolved
  Herbert Siggelko – Murdered with car crank
- 1948
  Charles Hines – Murdered in Washington D.C. Found bound and gagged, cause of death a severe blow to the head.
- 1946
  Bertha Parker –
1930s
- 1937
  Oscar Bornstein – Shot in the face at the Sinaiko Brothers Service station Murry & Regent trying to stop a robbery.
  Federman/Scofield – Murder Suicide
- 1936
  Viola Elver –
- 1934
  Adele Burnton – Shot in her apartment on N. Henry St. by her husband who then shot himself
- 1933
  Gunder Felland – An innocent bystander at the wrong place at the wrong time
- 1932
  Joe Presti – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  William Schmook – Shot by robber at the gas station he worked at in Joliet, IL.
  Officer Edward Riphon – Killed by two bullets fired at close range, body found on east of Madison. Unsolved
- 1931
  John White – Stabbed
  Jim Corcoran – Poisoned
  Hayward & Mable Sharp – Husband and wife murder suicide
- 1930
  Earl Van Deusen –
  Charles Pierce –
1920s
- 1929
  Frankie Gelosi – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  Andrew Olson –
  Godfrey Krugler – Murdered in city jail by insane cellmate.
  Lena Wollenberg – Committed suicide and took her 2yo daughter Viola with her
- 1928
  Joseph DiMartino – Italian leader, murdered as he stood in the kitchen of a friend's house. Unsolved *
  Ben Newmark – Shot in Chicago.
- 1927
  Antonio Ybarra –
  Jose Leon –
- 1926
  Officer Palmer Thompson – Shot when he was checking out after-hours activity in a Greenbush neighborhood restaurant Unsolved
  Hattie Hays – Madison bigamist, kills and dismembers a wife.
- 1924
  Officer Herbert Dreger – The youngest officer on the force, shot and killed in the old Bush. Unsolved *
  Anton Navarra – Shot to death in his grocery store. Unsolved
  Louis Lotwin – Shot at Death Corner in a dispute over his job. Unsolved *
  Posepny –
  Tony Bruno – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  Pete Sousa – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  Joe Brusca – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
- 1923
  Carl Justo – Found dying in a bloodstained snow bank on Murray Street, a revenge killing? Unsolved *
  Ernest Carson –
  Keepers –
- 1922
  James D'Amico – Shot through the window of his store. Unsolved *
- 1920
  Herman E. Singer – Murdered in the stone quarry at Sunset Point
1910s
- 1918
  Officer Grant Dosch – Murdered trying to stop a burglary. Two shots to the head. Unsolved
- 1917
  Joe Bastone – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
- 1915
  Salvatore Tripolino – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
- 1914
  Emily McConnell – Murdered by John Spooner in front of her kindergarten class, he then shoots himself.
  Fillippo Carissimo – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
- 1913
  Calogero Liceri – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  John Longfield – Night watchman, murdered by robbers. Greenbush Neighborhood Murders
- 1912
  Andrea Stasi – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
- 1911
  Annie Lemberger – Abduction and Murder, but who did it? Two men plead guilty at different times. Greenbush Neighborhood Murders. Unsolved
Before 1910
- 1906
  John Tenney –
  Joseph Bardenheier –
- 1899
  Thomas Good –
  Charles Prindle –
- 1862
  George Spears –
- 1842
  Charles Arndt –