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Crime in Wisconsin. In 2021 there were 109,587 crimes reported in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, including 332 murders, 2,475 acts of rape, 2,707 accounts of robbery, and 13,579 assaults. The chances of becoming a victim of a crime was 1 in 309. [1] [2]
- List of homicides in Wisconsin
August 14, 1914. 7. Murder of Frank Lloyd Wright 's...
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Waukesha Christmas parade attack. Waukesha County gangsters....
- List of homicides in Wisconsin
Dec 14, 2023 · This makes Milwaukee’s homicide rate — homicides per 100,000 inhabitants — much higher than the comparable rates for Wisconsin’s next biggest cities, Madison and Green Bay, and the rate for all the rest of the state outside the three largest cities. Recent work by the Badger Institute on crime in Wisconsin includes:
- The Intimidator
- Carlie Beaudin's Murder Revealed Shortcomings in Hospital Safety Measures
- A Rape Case Exposed A Tangled Web of Dysfunction in Milwaukee
- Slender Man: from Fiction to Attempted Murder
- The Lonesome Death of Ethan Hauschultz
- Unsolved
- Lisa Ann French and Wisconsin's Infamous 'Halloween Killer'
- Peter Zimmer: A Teen Killer's Dark Secret
'No face, no case': A six-part series explores how Antonio “Tone” Smith tried to permanently silence the witnesses to his crimes. Read more
Nurse practitioner Carlie Beaudin was beaten to death in the parking garage of the hospital where she worked. The man who killed her was captured on security cameras for two and a half hours before the attack, lurking around the hospital and hiding behind pillars for two and a half hours. But Froedtert’s security team had failed to act. Read more
Leaked details of a rape investigation led to a year of lawsuits and resignations — and exposed conflicts of interest, infighting, dysfunction and instances when the interests of Milwaukee citizens were overlooked by public officials. Read the four-part series
In 2014, two 12-year-old Waukesha girls were charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide for what police say was a plot, planned over months, to kill their classmate to appease Slender Man, a fictitious internet character. The girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, stabbed their victim 19 times with a 5-inch blade. The victim, Payton L...
Ethan Hauschultz was 7 when his 14-year-old foster brother beat him to death and buried him in the snow. Later sentenced to 20 years in prison, the foster brother said he'd been told to punish Ethan by his father, Timothy Hauschultz — who'd become Ethan's foster father despite having a record of child abuse. The case inspired the 2021 passage of Et...
Longtime crime reporter Gina Barton used her journalistic skills and ethics to look into three of Wisconsin's long-unsolved criminal cases: the disappearances and deaths of John Zera and Michelle Manders; and the murder of Father Alfred Kunz, a controversial Catholic priest. Barton explored the cases both in a podcast and in long-form serial report...
In 1973, everyone's kids trick-or-treated after dark on Halloween, and 9-year-old Lisa Ann French was eager to get started after finishing dinner. She kissed her parents goodbye and ran out of the house at 192 Amory St. just before 6 p.m. dressed up as a hobo — jeans covered in masking tape, a floppy felt hat and a green parka. It was the last time...
Peter Zimmer was 14 when he murdered his adoptive parents and brother at their Wisconsin farmhouse. Under state law at the time, he was not charged as an adult and never faced trial. At 19, he reinvented himself as Jovan Anton "Joe" Collier and kept his past a secret — until new criminal charges revealed his long-buried past. Read Part 1 Read Part ...
In 1984, homicides in Milwaukee reached a historically recent low of forty-four (the U.S. Census Bureau listed the 1980 Milwaukee population as 636,212). Even as the population of Milwaukee experienced a slight decline to 628,088 in 1990, the number of homicides was gradually rising through 1991.
List of cities in Wisconsin. Cities of Wisconsin at night in 2012, as seen through the window of the International Space Station. The partial view of Minneapolis at top is part of neighboring Minnesota. Wisconsin is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of January 1, 2021, there were 190 cities in Wisconsin, and 1,883 municipalities.
