Paula McCormick Murder

10 years old.
Madison's worst crime of recent decades may have been the brutal 1982 torture and murder of third-grader Paula McCormick. Roger Lange was convicted of the crime.

The McCormick case was similar to the 1911 kidnapping and murder ofsecond-grader Annie Lemberger, whose body was found in Lake Monona. John``Dogskin'' Johnson was convicted, then pardoned a decade later when Annie's father was accused. But the father was exonerated by lie detector tests a decade after that.