News 12.09.16
9 December 2016 News
Green Bay police say a 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run involving death for a crash on Interstate 43 in Green Bay. The suspect has been identified as Juan M. Zuniga. Police say Zuniga was arrested Wednesday night. The crash happened early Wednesday morning just south of E Mason St. The victim’s vehicle went off the roadway and was not discovered until shortly before noon Wednesday. Police say a man’s body was found in the vehicle.
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The Wisconsin State Crime Lab in Madison is analyzing forensic evidence used to convict “Making a Murderer” subject Steven Avery. Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were found guilty in the 2005 death of freelance photographer Teresa Halbach in Manitowoc County. Dassey’s conviction was recently overturned, but the state is appealing the judge’s ruling. Avery is also appealing his conviction. The laboratory is under the direction of Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, the same man arguing to make sure both Avery and Dassey stay in prison. However, Schimel says that will not impact the forensic testing being done in Avery’s case. Eight pieces of evidence — including swabs of blood stains, blood flakes and a car key — will be subject to testing. Most of it is from Halbach’s SUV found on Avery’s Salvage property in 2005. The evidence was not available when Avery was convicted of murdering Halbach in 2007. Avery has argued that he was framed by the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office. His attorney, Kathleen Zellner, tweeted earlier this week that “experts experiments confirm [Avery’s] trial attorneys correct about blood being planted but incorrect about how it was done.” Avery’s attorneys say the crime lab will perform the most comprehensive, thorough and advanced forensic testing ever requested by a criminal defendant in the state of Wisconsin.
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Three people have been charged in connection to the death of a woman in Dodge County. According to a criminal complaint, one of the suspects is the boyfriend–and cousin–of the victim. On Dec. 4, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department was called to a death investigation at 100 We Go Trail in Fox Lake. A man named Vernon L. Mickey had informed investigators of a possible homicide at the residence where he lived with his girlfriend, Marjorie Jones, and her son, Laverne Ware, Jr. Mickey indicated the mother and son were involved in a death and that there was a lot of blood in a residential garage on We Go Trail. Officers went to the garage of the home and found a female victim in a pickup truck belonging to Laverne Ware, Jr. The victim was identified as Sesalie S. Dixon. Dixon was Marjorie Jones’ niece and Laverne Ware’s cousin/girlfriend. The complaint says an autopsy confirmed that Sesalie Dixon’s death was consistent with a homicide. The three were qustioned. Mickey denied that Ware told him that he had killed Sesalie. Laverne Ware has been charged with Hiding a Corpse. Marjorie Jones and Vernon Mickey have each been charged with Harboring/Aiding a Felon.
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Milwaukee police say they’re looking for a suspect and a motive in the fatal shooting of a man and woman on the city’s northwest side. Officers responded to the home about 1:30 a.m. Thursday. Police tell WTMJ-TV two children were found hiding in the house. They were not physically injured. Authorities say one is a teen and the other is about 10 years old. Officials say the victims – a 38-year-old woman and a 36-year-old man – were shot multiple times and died at the scene.
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It was business as usual at Green Bay’s Lincoln Elementary School where students returned to class Thursday, two days after a mercury scare. The school district says it was a smooth transition back into the routine of a normal school day. Classes were canceled on Wednesday so hazardous materials crews could clean up following a mercury spill at the school. The EPA used a mercury analyzer after cleanup to ensure there is no mercury present. Lincoln principal Angela Hager said on Tuesday that a student brought a vial containing a silver substance to school. Hager says students were playing with it on the playground then brought it into the school. A person who lives with the student who brought mercury to to school told Action 2 News that their house has been condemned.
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