Category: Crime

Just a quick update on the ongoing investigation of the North Side Strangler: It’s being speculated one of the suspects authorities are taking a close look at for possible involvement in the “North Side Strangler” killings is a City of Milwaukee employee. I’ve not been able to confirm the truth…

As Harris Kane of the heartland hollar blog notes, Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker wants to reassure Milwaukeeans that he’s paying close attention to the situation: Via County Executive Walker’s twitter page: “AI will not be the same 2night w/out Danny Gokey.” Heck of a job, Scotty, heck of a…

Milwaukee Police confirmed today a DNA link between a suspected serial killer and a seventh victim. Florence McCormick, a slain prostitute, was found dead on April 24, 1995 inside a vacant home on the city’s north side in the 600 block of West Locust Avenue. As I wrote yesterday, I…

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting Milwaukeeans may have a serial killer in their midst: Milwaukee police are looking for a serial killer suspected in the homicides of at least six Milwaukee women murdered over 21 years, the most recent in 2007, the police chief and district attorney said Monday….

At the end of last year, I predicted former Minnesota Senator Norm Coleman would be implicated and convicted of public misconduct before Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. At the time, that prediction seemed like a stretch, considering federal authorities had only begun investigating some shady financial dealings involving a close Coleman…

There’s not much I can say except this is a bad idea: The provision, which passed the Legislature’s Finance Committee 9-6 earlier this week, would expand judges’ authority to expunge criminal convictions. The current law, in effect since 1975, allows judges to expunge a first-time misdemeanor conviction of perpetrators who…

This is a few days late, but it’s still good news: Reports of crime in Milwaukee dropped by nearly 17% in the first three months of 2009 compared with the same period last year, with violent crime falling even further, Police Chief Edward Flynn announced Wednesday. Now as impressive as…

I swear, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin just can’t stay out of the news. First there was the ongoing saga of of the he said, she said between Gov. Palin, her daughter Bristol, and Levi Johnston and his family, and now there’s the story of the rather “interesting” past comments made…

A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, according to Pittsburgh police. The subject, Richard Poplawski, met officers at the doorway when they responded…

…seems to be a spike in domestic violence and child abuse deaths: “We have families in crisis,” police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said today. “Chief Flynn wants to let people know this is occurring and there are resources to help.” Milwaukee has reported 17 homicides so far in 2009, compared…