WI WI - Cecilia and Ann Cadigan (sisters), 85 & 90, Village of Casco (Kewaunee County), 16 November 1991

[Teamir]

From that same linked article, there was a male suspect who moved to CO.

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a young man from Colorado as their prime suspect. The man, then 22, had lived in rural Casco and several people told investigators that he had an explosive temper, was supposedly broke and regularly shot pool, court documents reflect.

The man drew heightened suspicion because he moved back to Colorado just four days after the slayings. During the 1990s, he denied involvement and a warrant to search his station wagon in Colorado yielded no forensic evidence. By 1995, investigators disregarded him as a suspect.”

I’m wondering if they ever got DNA from him.

I’m getting pretty interested in who Cecilia came in contact with at the schools she taught at, in East DePere and Milwaukee.

The original suspect seems to have been cleared. But what if he moved away because he either knew or suspected who did it and wanted to get away from that influence? Moving away from a “bad crowd”…..or a bad relative….
(Hint hint that I’m finding things!)

I really really want those yearbooks from where and when the Cadigans taught, so as to confirm or reject a line of thought!

 

[Teamir]

I finally got a subscription to newspaper dot com and WOW. Too much to link in one post. But I think I can write off the idea that there’s discoverable DNA on the pool cue tip because LE only found parts of a broken pool cue. So perhaps the tip is missing. It’s a complicated case. There’s at least three different suspicious vehicles described during the trial for La Batte - I’m sure that didn’t make it easy for LE. I’m still theorizing that the first suspect knew something or suspected something.

 

[Teamir]

I ended up giving my case research to LE. The theory I ended up with is that someone on cocaine did it and had gone there with the intent to steal cash. I don’t think they had an enemy mad enough at them to be so violent, so I’m thinking it was someone on drugs causing them to be irrationally violent. There was a drug task force in WI at the time, and convictions were going up, and correspondingly the price of cocaine was going up. Therefore I thought of a drug user wanting cash. So I cross referenced cocaine convictions mentioned in the newspapers around that time, against if those people had a connection to the Casco-Luxembourg area. I’m hoping something comes of it.


This link was my jumping off point for info on the drug task force.

 

[Teamir]

Interestingly, the initial suspect has multiple relatives with charges that include cocaine, other drugs, assault of women, theft, etc. Did he suspect a relative and that's why he moved away four days after the murders?