Madison Crime

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

Unsolved Murders *

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

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• 2000+
  • 2011 Clifton Jones – Stabbed outside the BP station on S. Park St.
  • 2011 Luis Vasquez – Three years old, killed by his mother throwing him against a wall.
  • 2011 Kevin & KeMaury McArthur – Toddlers brutally murdered by their mother’s boyfriend.
  • 2010 Eugene Walker – Shot Dane County Sheriff's deputy.
  • 2010 Daniel Thomas – Killed by police after hostage jumps to cover while at credit union.
  • 2010 Sally Pergolski – Murdered by her son, UW Student, Chase Boruch.
  • 2010 Twanda Thompson, Keyshai Fields, Leona Larry-Burton and Keleasha & Jihad Larry – James Larry massacres family in Chicago, five people and two unborns die.
  • 2010 Rapist Returns to Scene of Crime and is Arrested
  • 2009 Child Performer Convicted of Repeated Sexual Assault
  • 2009 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.
  • 2009 Francesca Weber – Murdered by her husband Steven, a massive manhunt ends with his suicide.
  • 2009 Gregory Bickford – Shot by police as he points gun in oficers face.
  • 2008 Juan Bernal – Stabbed and killed over jukebox dispute at the Plaza Bar.
  • 2008 Eduardo Cademartori – Jumped by bouncer and customers he dies in the street.
  • 2008 Mark Johnson – Beaten to death, 911 does not dispatch police.
  • 2008 Joel Marino – Stabbed to death in his home, his killer eventually found, commits suicide in jail.
  • 2008 Brittany Zimmermann – Found stabbed in the heart so many times that it thought she had been shot in the chest, 911 operator hangs up. *
  • 2008 Kyle Dutter – Shot by his father, Ryan, before he then shoots himself.
  • 2008 Man Gets Eight Years in Prison for Stalking Neighbors
  • 2008 Repeat Drunk Driver Crashes, Van Bursts Into Flames
  • 2008 Juan Manuel Avalos-Cisneros – Shot by Fitchburg Police as he reached for the officer's gun.
  • 2007 Kelly Nolan – Missing for two weeks a signal from her cell phone leads searchers to a patch of woods in the town of Dunn. *
  • 2007 George Thomas – Died from multiple forms of trauma at the King's Inn motel. *
  • 2007 Larry Gardner – Shot in a break-in at an apartment on Cypress Way. *
  • 2007 Kevin Cobbins – Shot by James Bohanan at a duplex on Loreen Drive on Madison's west side.
  • 2007 Ronald Brandon – Shot by police after he pointed a gun at officers.
  • 2007 David Damaschke – Shot by sheriff after he picked up a gun he had been persuaded to drop earlier.
  • 2005 Angela Drake – Drugged and left in the freezing cold to die by Michael Desalvo.
  • 2004 Gregory Velasquez – Killed by police after he enters day care center with meat cleavers.
  • 2003 Gregory Bray – Found shot to death at his southwest side Madison duplex. *
  • 2003 Jason McGuigan, Dustin Wilson & Daniel Swanson – Shot in their appartment in Verona by "Mark" Wu, Wu hangs himself in jail before trial.
  • 2003 Lloyd & Michael Gentry – Shot down by their stepfather Roger O'Neal at their Taft Street home.
  • 2003 Nathaniel Divine – Found behind the wheel of a pickup truck in a parking lot of 2316 Badger Parkway.
  • 2003 Julio Contreras – Shot by police after he fired at them after a botched robbery attempt.
  • 2002 Lizzette Muske-Fountain – Shot by boyfriend Thomas McCants in their Fitchburg apartment.
  • 2002 Boxer Eric Morel Rapes 15 Year Old
  • 2002 Seconed Rape in West High School
  • 2001 Andrea Leu – Probably killed by Gerald Faulkner but he was found dead just days later.
  • 2001 Steven Young – Killed by his girlfriends brother, Kevin Singer, with a knife and small sledge hammer.
  • 2001 Maurice Washington – From Minneapolis, shot twice in the head by a Chicago man, Tyrees Murray, on Madison's north side.
  • 2001 Kevin Mills – Shot in the parking lot of Kohl's Food Store on Park Street.
  • 2001 Jesse Johnson – Shot by police when he raised a gun at the officers.
  • 2000 Sheralyn Taylor – Strangled by Jonathan Ewald at her Sun Prairie home.
• 1990s
  • 1999 Maria Fernanda Hernandez – 13 months old, beaten and dehydrated dies at UW hospital as her mom and boyfriend flee.
  • 1999 David Jones – Shot along with his fiancιe by Harvey Pierce at the Wal-Mart west.
  • 1999 Jocko's Rocket Ship Drug Bust
  • 1998 Robert Hansen – Beaten to death by three Monroe teenagers.
  • 1998 Dennis Richmond – Killed by Joey Fane, found with a gunshot wound to the head on Fisher Street.
  • 1998 Larry Gorman – Killed by girlfriend Wanda Chavez with a stab to the heart. She waited four days to call police.
  • 1998 Omar Haban-Megahed – How did he die and why were investigators uncooperative?
  • 1997 Rape of Patty
  • 1997 Emma Bacon – Brandon Grady beat, stabbed and performed an “autopsy-like” mutilation on her at the Spence Motel.
  • 1997 Walter Linder – Killed by Jason Buckckbauer, found shot in Reindahl Park.
  • 1995 Roman Shcheglov – Struck by multiple bullets to the head and neck in his Atlantic City motel room while on vacation.
  • 1995 Steve Henderson – Revenge shooting for a drug deal gone bad. Shot while driving on Fisher Street crashing into Penn park.
  • 1995 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.
  • 1995 Ericha Von Hoken – Killed at the Citgo Quick Mart, a telephone cord wrapped around her neck.
  • 1994 Karl Schlicht – Stabbed.
  • 1994 Sarah Gonstead – Penny Brummer was convicted of the murder but did she do it?
  • 1994 Dorothy Paige – Stabbed and strangled to death by Melvin Parker in the bedroom of her apartment
  • 1993 Denise Stark – Killed by "Rambo" at Token Creek Park.
  • 1993 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.
  • 1993 Fontaine Allison – Shot and kille by rival gang member James Dillard at an apartment on West Broadway Nov 24.
  • 1992 James Engelke – Cabbie shot once in the back of the head from inside the cab, found in the median, up against a tree.
  • 1992 Mark Genna – Beaten so badly police originally thought he had been shot. *
  • 1992 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.
  • 1991 Doris Ann McLeod – Found beaten and mutilated, she went unidentified for months.
  • 1991 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? *
  • 1990 Mark Starkey – Shot by James Wills because Wills thought he was a "queer".
  • 1990 Gulzar Chaudry – Killed by Luis Duarte at the Amaco Station on Pflaum Rd.
• 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.
  • 1988 Amy Jo Worth – Found in a burning apartment, she had already been viciously beaten by Jefferey Rynes.
  • 1988 Diann Blatz – Smothered by her estranged husband, Roger Blatz.
  • 1988 Clyde "Bud" Chamberlain and Eleanor Townsend – Gunned down by Aaron Lindh at the City County Building.
  • 1988 Psycho Elevator Lady
  • 1987 Richard Webb – Gunshot to the neck on Corry Street.
  • 1987 Leroy Wilson – Shot trying to break up a fight over a hairdo.
  • 1987 Diana Crissinger & JonNelle Huddleston – Stabbed in the neck and chest by John Stallins in Penn Park.
  • 1987 Thomas Steffes – Satan’s Dragons "Motorcycle Gang" kills & mutilates prospect.
  • 1987 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.
  • 1986 Andrew Nehmer – Murdered at Open Pantry 2201 S. Park St.
  • 1985 Willie Rayford – Blead to death after being stabbed repeatedly in the head and chest by Billy Ray Creech.
  • 1985 Cindy Denny – Beaten to death by her boyfriend, Scott Dolan, in her stoughton appatment.
  • 1985 Raymond Denny – Shot multiple times in his apartment by his roommate, Dennis Wilder.
  • 1985 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.. *
  • 1984 Rod Michaels – Killed by Rowland Harp? Behind Civic Center, Oct 18.
  • 1983 Yvonne Workman – Bound, gagged and shot execution style in the head.
  • 1983 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. *
  • 1982 Paula McCormick – Brutal torture and murder of a ten year old.
  • 1981 Shirley Droster – Found dead in a Williamson Street apartment.
  • 1980 Shirley Stewart – Found after six months missing, decomposed and unable to establish the exact cause of death. One of the Capital City Murders. *
  • 1980 Kamps Murder – Did the wrong brother do time for her murder?
  • 1980 Lenny Stone – Gunshot Wound to Head. Member of CC Riders Motorcycle club, shot by a rival club member.
  • 1980 Patricia Stuart –
  • 1980 Barbara Hoffman Murder Trial
• 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. *
  • 1979 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. *
  • 1978 Mary Johnson – Raped and murdered by William Zamastil. Her funeral was held the day she was to be married.
  • 1978 Lee Parker –
  • 1978 Randall Quandt – Killed by Gerald Scultz
  • 1978 Julie Ann Hall – Found in a shallow grave along Woodland Rd. in Waunakee. Another of the Capital City Murders. *
  • 1978 Jerry Davies – Killed with cyanide, likely by Barbara Hoffman, although she was not convicted for this murder. *
  • 1977 Harry Berge – Murdered with cyanide by the infamous Barbara Hoffman.
  • 1977 Racist kills couple in East Towne parking lot, Joseph Franklin convicted a decade later.
  • 1977 Cheryl Pecosky – Raped and killed by John Allen, found on Dempsey Rd.
  • 1976 Jeanette Zapata – Disappearance & murder, solved after 31 years.
  • 1976 Debra Bennett – Charred and decomposed remains found in a gully along Old Sauk Pass Rd. One of the Capital City Murders. *
  • 1976 Bernice Davidson –
  • 1976 Robert Disch –
  • 1976 Rape in West High School
  • 1974 Lucila Little – Shot by estranged husband, Allan, in a murder suicide.
  • 1973 David Daniels – Shot by police in burglary attempt.
  • 1973 Norman Pagel – Shot by wife Sally Lee Pagel.
  • 1972 James Samples –
  • 1972 Lester Hanson –
  • 1972 Mark Justl – Found beaten and stomped to death inside the Joyce Funeral Home where he worked. *
  • 1971 Roberta Arnold –
  • 1971 Dr. Thomas Speer – Shot to death at close range, ambush style, outside the Quality Motel. *
  • 1971 Brettingen –
  • 1970 Borchardt –
  • 1970 Jeanne Broomel – Killed by the janitor, Virnell Hunt, at her apartments, Truax Park Apts.
  • 1970 Sterling Hall Bombing Wakes Madison
• 1960s
  • 1969 Charles Mumford – Shot three times, found in an alley behind the Stop Lite Tavern. *
  • 1969 Rea Norton – Murdered by Gerald Barlow
  • 1968 Christine Rothschild – University student, first victim of the Capital City Murders. *
  • 1967 Ward Stephenson –
  • 1965 Charles Belcher –
  • 1965 Erdahl –
  • 1964 McGuigan –
  • 1960 Harold Hays & Walter Nelson – Murdered by Hays son Jon "Mickey" Hays
  • 1960 Hazel Williams – Found in a bathtub stabbed 40-50 times in the chest. *
  • 1960 John & Florence Buending – Murder Suicide at their 4609 Windigo Tr. home.
• 1950s
• 1940s
  • 1949 Sadie Jackson – Shot by her lover, Butch King, in front of the Norris Court Grocery in broad daylight.
  • 1949 Max Hobert – Missing for ten days his body found, bound, floating in the Yahara River. *
  • 1949 Herbert Siggelko –
  • 1948 Charles Hines –
  • 1946 Bertha Parker –
• 1930s
  • 1937 Oscar Bornstein –
  • 1937 Federman/Scofield – Murder Suicide
  • 1936 Viola Elver –
  • 1932 Joe Presti – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1932 William Schmook –
  • 1932 Officer Edward Riphon – Killed by two bullets fired at close range, body found on east of Madison. *
  • 1931 John White –
  • 1931 Jim Corcoran – Poisoned
  • 1930 Earl Van Deusen –
  • 1930 Charles Pierce –
• 1920s
  • 1929 Frankie Gelosi – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1929 Andrew Olson –
  • 1929 Godfrey Krugler – Murdered in city jail by insane cellmate.
  • 1929 Lena Wollenberg – Committed suicide and took her 2yo daughter Viola with her, May 1.
  • 1928 Joseph DiMartino – Italian leader, Murdered as he stood in the kitchen of a friends house. * *
  • 1928 Ben Newmark shot in Chicago, Apr 23.
  • 1927 Antonio Ybarra –
  • 1927 Jose Leon –
  • 1926 Officer Palmer Thompson – Shot when he was checking out after-hours activity in a Greenbush neighborhood restaurant *
  • 1926 William Coffey – Madison bigamist, kills and dismembers a wife.
  • 1924 Officer Herbert Dreger – The youngest officer on the force, shot and killed in the old Bush. * *
  • 1924 Anton Navarra – Shot to death in his grocery store. *
  • 1924 Louis Lotwin – Shot at Death Corner in a dispute over his job. * *
  • 1924 Posepny –
  • 1924 Tony Bruno – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1924 Pete Sousa – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1924 Joe Brusca – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1923 Carl Justo – Found dying in a bloodstained snow bank on Murray Street, a revenge killing? * *
  • 1923 Ernest Carson –
  • 1923 Keepers –
  • 1922 James D'Amico – Shot through the window of his store. * *
• 1910s
  • 1918 Officer Grant Dosch – Murdered trying to stop a buglary. Two shots to the head. *
  • 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.
  • 1914 Fillippo Carissimo – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1913 Calogero Liceri – Greenbush Neighborhood Murders.
  • 1913 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. *
• 1900s
  • 1906 John Tenney –
  • 1906 Joseph Bardenheier –
• Before 1900
  • 1899 Thomas Good –
  • 1899 Charles Prindle –
  • 1862 George Spears –
  • 1842 Charles Arndt –