GUILTY WI - Brittany Zimmermann, 21, Madison, 2 April 2008 *arrest in 2020*

[SeriouslySearching]

I wouldn't count on MPD going across the street to see who lived there much less to check out a construction company. IMO, it wasn't done. Remember, their way to handle this case was to haul in every homeless person to try and pin it on one of them. They failed and during their "round up" missed other potential suspects, imo.

I am glad you are still going after this case with a vengence, Tangled. I want to know what happened to her, Kelly Nolan, and the others in that city. It reads like a bad horror novel without an ending. Bungling police department, murder via every means possible, and a killer who leaves clues yet gets away with it time after time. This case proves to himself that he is the ultimate serial killer by doing it in broad daylight in the midst of people coming and going, but still no one sees a thing. He left the cover of the 2:00am bar crowd and darkness. He changed his MO completely (which he has done with the way he kills them since the onset of the murders). They simply can't catch him.

There are two more cases in and around Madison which need to be included, but the names of the women I would have to look up. In both cases, they arrested and convicted perps. I think they are innocent. One was a female. They use one or both of these cases for study at the University. I have them listed here somewhere (probably on the forum where I listed all the women murdered in Madison). One woman was killed with a gunshot and the other was strangled, IIRC. The latter one was found after the guy supposedly dropped her off at home in a ditch, frozen, and wearing only a sweater not far from where Kelly Nolan was found. He was convicted solely on being the last person to see her, imo.

The very best witness they have is the woman who survived the knife attack years ago at the University. I have yet to see a sketch come from her or any witness statement. She was merely a blip I ran across researching the others. There was nothing in the press to speak of which could be considered an article on her...just a mention it happened. She did what the other women could not...which is to survive.

 

[gaia227]

I just sent you a PM TG before I saw your post. You never cease to amaze me with your ability to sniff things out. You have already figured out where the construction was being done which is great. You would think LE would check nearby construction sites but like SS said they were too busy on a witchhunt involving the homeless population.

 

[tangledweb]

http://www.danesheriff.com/records_request.aspx

The above link is for an online records request form for the Dane County Sheriff's Department in Madison, WI. It includes criminal history requests, mugshots, backgrounds and police reports.

Actually, the construction company is located 500 feet from Brittany's apartment. In a phone call to the CG Schmidt company 1-608-251-4535, one could ask if they've ever done business with Maly Roofing, where the Peacock brothers both worked, or whether they contracted any jobs out to them.



Background checks $2.00 plus photocopy fees
Mug Shot Photos $2.00 each

BTW, gaia227, that was Ryan Peacock's photo I had posted here a while back.

 

[mssheila]

I'm sure I've told everyone this already, but I worked at that 911 center in 2005. It was very poorly run, and until the Brittany Zimmerman mistake, no one took the incentives to change anything. It was understaffed, it was very very poorly managed, and the dispatchers were extremely bittter at the forced O/T. I know this dispatcher personally, though. She was diligent. She did her job well. This was human error, surely- but it was also an equiptment failure. If she had heard ANY of those things on that tape at the time she would have taken the appropriate actions. But because of poor equiptment, and the loud noises that are often going on inside the call center room... she didn't hear any of it. Unfortunately. However, when they took that tape back to a nice quiet room, shut the door and listened to it- it sounded clear as a bell to them. That's NOT how it was to the dispatcher, though- I know this for a fact.

Ok, as far as construction around her neighborhood... there has been construction going on for several years, on nearly every single street in her neighborhood. The downtown area is getting a total overhaul. I would guess that there are at least 50-75, possibly even a hundred different companies working jobs down there.. if you count the contractors, subcontractors and the freelancers. There's a lot of things being revamped, torn down, and new condo's are popping up everywhere.

Hope this is informative to you guys. I wish I could find out if the police had entertained your tip about all these Peacock creeps... They are great for suspects!

 

[taramarie]

I just wanted to bump this case up. It's been over 2yrs now and still nothing.

http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/89806472.html

 

[Joe Friday]

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Judge Issues Ruling In Zimmermann Claim
Judge: Negligence Claim Should Wait

Updated: 7:41 am CDT July 1, 2010

MADISON, Wis. -- A Dane County judge issued a ruling Wednesday on a negligence claim filed by the family of Brittany Zimmermann.

The judge said Wednesday the claim should wait until after the criminal investigation, citing too many disputed facts over Zimmermann’s 911 call.

http://www.channel3000.com/news/24106473/detail.html

 

[mssheila]

At the pace that the police are going... I dont blame the family for wanting to sue the 911 center now. I think it's a shame that they are unable!

 

[RLynne]

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/loc...cle_836c4ac2-cd77-11df-9987-001cc4c03286.html

Hundreds of runners and walkers will converge on the UW-Madison Library Mall on Saturday, in memory of slain student Brittany Zimmermann.

The inaugural Brittany Zimmermann 5K Run/Walk will begin at 9 a.m. on the mall at the campus end of State Street, with the course taking in the Lake Mendota lakeshore.

 

[RLynne]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_838f2580-ce5b-11df-9fa3-001cc4c002e0.html

Money raised through the run, which carried an entry fee of $20 to $25, will be split between the Zimmermann family's reward fund and that of Crime Stoppers this year, and will go entirely to Crime Stoppers in future years.

Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said three detectives continue to investigate the case, full-time.

It is not a cold case, but rather "vacillates between warm and hot," DeSpain said. "We have believed from the get-go that this is a solvable case."

 

[RLynne]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_794b32bc-d162-11df-9d49-001cc4c002e0.html

Dane County has agreed to pay a group of media organizations $118,000 to settle a 2008 lawsuit over the release of records related to the mishandled 911 phone call of murdered UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann.

and

Among the documents that were eventually released was an e-mail from the 911 operator who received the call but said she didn't hear screams that police say are on the recording of the call, faulting the equipment. The county maintains that it doesn't know why the operator couldn't hear the screams.

 

[scorpionsting]

Here's a mugshot of David Peacock...now if we can only find a witness who saw him near Brittany's apartment the day she was murdered.

Also, maybe a family member or a friend of Brittany's from Marshfield recognizes him from Marshfield. A relative of David, Ryan Peacock, lived in Marshfield at one time near Brittany's mother's house. It's not inconceivable that David lived with or visited Ryan. Wisconsin Circuit Court Access lists both David and Ryan currently living in Madison at the same address. David Peacock had previously listed his address on Robertson Rd. at Maly Roofing, where his brother Steve works/worked.

There's a construction company about 500 feet from Brittany's apartment. Considering David Peacock's previous employment as a roofer/construction worker, it's my opinion that D. Peacock may have worked for that construction company and is listed in their records.

When Brittany was murdered, David had just been busted for DUI and fled town shortly after his bust. He went to Missouri and worked at a roofing company there.

I believe he was extradited and brought back to Madison, WI for trial. He currently lives with Ryan Peacock at a Chalet Gardens address west of where Kelly Nolan was found dead.

All circumstantial, but...

 

[scorpionsting]

Zimmermann Family, County Reach Settlement In Wrongful Death Suit - UW Student Found Slain In 2008

http://www.channel3000.com/news/25908795/detail.html

MADISON, Wis. -- Dane County and the family of a slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student have reached a settlement in a nearly two-year lawsuit.

The family of Brittany Zimmermann filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Dane County in 2008. The suit alleged that negligence on the part of the county, the county executive and a then-911 call center operator led to their 21-year-old daughter's 2008 death at her downtown Madison apartment. Zimmermann was found stabbed and strangled. She apparently used her cell phone to call 911 for help sometime before she died, but the call was disconnected and police were not dispatched.

According to the terms of the settlement made public in a press release issued by Bell, Moore & Richter law firm, which represented the county, on Wednesday, the county will contribute $5,000 to the Zimmermann Reward Fund and $2,500 to the family's attorney

The county "maintains it has complied with all applicable laws and regulations, but believes this settlement is in the public interest as it provides resolution for the family and community and saves further expense of ongoing litigation." Meanwhile, the family members said that they didn't sue the county for the purpose of recovering money, but "to make sure this did not happen to anyone else."

Both the family and county officials have declined to make further comments regarding the settlement, according to the press release.

Police have said they have no key suspects in their ongoing investigation.

 

[scorpionsting]

Police throw out or lose evidence in at least 4 Dane County cold cases.

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_d601d33a-f74b-11df-a884-001cc4c002e0.html

Excerpts from (long) article:

A Capital Times investigation found that of 10 unsolved murders being investigated by the Dane County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, the Madison Police Department and University of Wisconsin Police Department dating back to the pre-DNA decades, at least four have been compromised by the mishandling of evidence. While police officials say recent advances such as bar coding and restricting access to evidence storage areas have improved their ability to keep track of items that could potentially tie a suspect to a crime, a lot of evidence over the years has, for various reasons, been destroyed or simply lost.

Inquiries by The Capital Times to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office concerning evidence in the unsolved murder cases of four young women dating from 1976 to 1981 prompted an internal review within the agency. The probe revealed that in the cases of Shirley Stewart, whose body was found in a wooded area in the town of Westport in 1980 a year after she went missing, and Julie Speerschneider, who was missing for two years before her skeletal remains were discovered in the town of Dunn in 1981, nearly all evidence has been destroyed. And sheriff&#8217;s officials also found that key evidence in another case, the 1968 murder of Christine Rothschild, had simply been lost.

(Insert, mine: On March 27, 1979, 20-year-old Julie Speerschneider mysteriously vanished. Kelly Nolan's body also was found on Monday July 9, 2007, in the Town of Dunn, about 11 miles south of Madison. She disappeared on June 23, 2007. Both disappeared from bars in downtown Madison.)

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That wasn&#8217;t news to University of Wisconsin Police Chief Sue Riseling, whose department is in charge of the Rothschild case.

Rothschild, an 18-year-old UW freshman, was found beaten, stabbed and strangled outside Sterling Hall on May 26, 1968. Investigators had long ago exhausted their leads. In 2007 Riseling decided it was time to take another look at Rothschild&#8217;s murder. She formed a team of investigators and instructed them to gather up the evidence in the case to see if the same technology that has been instrumental in cracking other old homicides in recent years could shed light on the slaying. Because the murder occurred before the UW Police had a facility for storing evidence, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office was handling it.

&#8220;That&#8217;s when we realized that things were not preserved by the sheriff&#8217;s department they way we thought they were,&#8221; Riseling says.

She won&#8217;t say what the missing evidence was, but in 1968 it was deemed important enough to ship off to the FBI for testing. Some of the evidence collected at the scene, according to news accounts, included bloody clothing, a bloody man&#8217;s handkerchief found under Rothschild&#8217;s head, a broken, black umbrella that was stabbed into the ground, and other items found at the scene, items that could contain the DNA of the killer. The FBI processed the evidence shortly after the murder, but there&#8217;s no record of what was done with it after it was sent back to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office.

&#8220;We&#8217;ve been kind of asking them to look through their property room now for several years hoping that we would find the missing items,&#8221; Riseling says. &#8220;Obviously that didn&#8217;t happen. And then with this review, since they&#8217;ve really gone through everything thoroughly, it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s going to happen.&#8221;

While other evidence remains, Riseling says: &#8220;Clearly this is a challenge. However, we&#8217;re going to still keep going with what we have.&#8221;

The two other homicide cases in which evidence records were requested by The Capital Times were those of Debra Bennett, whose burned body was left in a ditch outside Cross Plains in 1976, and Julie Ann Hall, who was bludgeoned to death and buried near Waunakee in 1978. Sheriff&#8217;s officials say evidence in the Hall case is still intact. Nearly eight months into the internal review, sheriff&#8217;s detectives are still trying to determine if any evidence is missing in the Bennett case.

Those murders, along with that of Susan LeMahieu, whose body was found in the UW Arboretum in 1980, were thought by some investigators to be connected, meaning a break in one of the cases might potentially provide new leads in the others. The UW Police Department is investigating the LeMahieu case and has retained the evidence throughout the course of the investigation. UW police have also retained custody of evidence throughout the investigation of another unsolved Dane County murder from the era, that of Donna Mraz, who was stabbed to death near Camp Randall Stadium in 1982. Her murder was thought by investigators to be unconnected to the others.

 

[bessie]

Madison police look at link to burglary in Zimmermann homicide


MADISON - Madison police believe there may be a connection between the unsolved homicide of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann and an early morning break-in at a University Avenue tavern months later involving three Madison teenagers with gang ties, the State Journal has learned.
Assistant City Attorney Roger Allen confirmed there is a "possible connection" between Zimmermann's April 2, 2008, strangulation and stabbing death in her Downtown apartment and the July 9, 2008, break-in at the Blue Moon Bar and Grill, 2535 University Ave.
Police won't say why they think the crimes are linked, and there's no evidence in the available record that any of the teens involved in the Blue Moon break-in were involved in Zimmermann's killing. But a State Journal review of hundreds of pages of police and court records suggests an unknown accomplice to the burglary may have been at the homicide.

The newspaper began its review after the parent of another teen questioned by police in connection with the Zimmermann case told the Wisconsin State Journal that a detective told her DNA associated with the homicide matched DNA from another crime at a local bar. The parent, whose son knows one of the Blue Moon burglars, requested anonymity out of concern for her family's safety.

cont. at the link

http://lacrossetribune.com/news/sta...cle_8ccdcc5e-0615-11e0-8e48-001cc4c002e0.html

 

[angelainwi]

Has the name Will Workman every come up?

 

[nohwheregirl]

Has the name Will Workman every come up?

Hi Angela,
What do you know about Will Workman? I knew him when I lived in Madison (thankfully was never alone with him), and I know what he's suspected of. I think he's worth considering, but not sure if this would fall into his MO. Of course, there's a lot of info that hasn't been released in this case and the Kelly Nolan case. <modsnip>

 

[kittycat3]

i'm curious too.....

 

[bessie]

Family of slain UW student Brittany Zimmermann still looking for answers

April 01, 2013 11:15 am

Madison police confirmed that DNA associated with a July 9, 2008, break-in at the Blue Moon Bar and Grill, 2535 University Ave., matches DNA from the homicide scene after the State Journal reported a possible link between the two cases, Zimmermann said.

The DNA from the Blue Moon does not match the three Madison men convicted of the break-in — Spencer L. Hutchins, 23, Darrielle L. Banks, 22, and Ryan K. Cook, 21 — or anyone in a national database.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/...8bf-11e2-8c12-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz2u2kXdGF6
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If the DNA doesn't match the three guys convicted of the break in, and it didn't come from CODIS, who the heck does it belong to???

 

[taramarie]

bump.

 

[PastTense]

Murder victim Brittany Zimmermann was remembered Saturday morning with a run in her honor.

The 21-year-old UW-Madison student was killed in 2008 and the case remains unsolved. Saturday morning's run marked the 5th year of the Brittany Run 5K.

http://www.wkow.com/story/26705975/2014/10/04/5k-honors-murder-victim-brittany-zimmerman#