News 04.25.18
25 April 2018 News
The remains of an unidentified woman found in a frozen creek in Fond du Lac County nearly 10 years ago will be exhumed this week at a cemetery in Waupun. Sheriff’s officials say forensic anthropologists will examine the remains of “Jane Doe” using techniques that weren’t available when her body was found. Through chemical isotope analysis, investigators may learn where the woman lived and her approximate age. DNA testing can determine eye, skin and hair color, as well as genetic ancestry and face shape. Sheriff’s Detective Pete Vergos says learning the woman’s identity is the first step in determining what happened to her. The woman’s body was kept in the Fond du Lac County morgue for three years before her remains were buried at Cattaragus Cemetery just before Christmas in 2011.
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Several arrests and citations were handed out during a drug interdiction effort in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties. Waupun Deputy police chief Jeremy Rasch says 15 police officers and sheriff’s deputies and four K9 officers participated in the deployment making a total of 76 traffic stops Friday. Rasch says three people were arrested for operating under the influence of a controlled substance, one owi, an arrest made for felony possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and one gun was confiscated. Rasch says while he’s pleased with the enforcement campaign, the effort is ongoing. He also says it is alarming that in those 76 traffic stops four of the people were impaired and there was a gun taken out of one of the vehicles.
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A Fond du Lac woman convicted of failing to protect a 6-year-old girl from sex crimes wants to change her plea. At a sentencing hearing last week, 40 year old Ellen Neumann told judge Dale English she plans to file a motion to withdraw an Alford plea she entered back in January. Under the plea Neumann ddin’t admit guilt but acknowledged there was enough evidence for a conviction. Charges of first-degree sexual assault of a child and causing a child to view sex acts were dismissed but read into the record. Neumann was one of three people charged in the case. Shane Berg was sentenced to 18 years in prison and Tory Tuinstra received a 13 year prison sentence after they were convicted of sexual assault of a child. Neumann is accused of forcing a six year old girl to watch as she and Berg had sex. Assistant police chief Steve Thiry says the assaults occurred at a Ruggles Street residence. According to a criminal complaint Tuinstra described the lifestyle in the house as dominance/submissive. Thiry says Tuinstra told investigators that Berg was the dominant one and went by the name Master Wolf. According to the complaint everyone in the house wore dog collars, including the six year old victim who wore a purple collar.
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The Wisconsin Ethics Commission is considering a policy guiding what to do about political contributions made in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is gaining in popularity as a type of privately issued digital money. The Ethics Commission held a hearing Tuesday in response to February request from the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin for public input and a policy on the use of campaigns accepting cryptocurrencies and making payments with them. Libertarian Party Chairman Phil Anderson says some politicians have been offered bitcoin donations, but they’re wary of accepting them due to there being no policy. The Federal Election Commission approved bitcoin donations in 2014, classifying them as “in-kind contributions.” But others have raised concerns given that bitcoins can’t be traced back to individuals.
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