Have you contacted Dane County? I think that you maybe should because this is very good info. If you assemble a file for them showing connections and possibilities?A few? lol. Quite a few. Thanks for the heads up. Somehow I also reversed locations for Speerschneider and Stewart. Below is a more accurate map. Hopefully. I also included an article in which detectives believe they had the right suspect in the Julie Hall murder. So, unless their suspect also killed the other three, I guess there's no connection like I assumed.View attachment 456598View attachment 456599
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North Birch Trail & Old Sauk Pass Road to Oregon
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Aren't these murders where the county destroyed evidence because they were running out of storage room? Sad. I don't think they'll ever be solved unless someone confesses.Have you contacted Dane County? I think that you maybe should because this is very good info. If you assemble a file for them showing connections and possibilities?
Inquiries by The Capital Times to the Sheriff’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’s officials also found that key evidence in another case, the 1968 murder of Christine Rothschild, had simply been lost.
Ah, that’s right. The evidence for Stewart, Rothschild and Speerschneider is for sure gone per that article. But it does say they have the Hall evidence so that’s good. Unclear on Bennett in that article.Aren't these murders where the county destroyed evidence because they were running out of storage room? Sad. I don't think they'll ever be solved unless someone confesses.
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Evidence lost in at least 4 Dane County cold cases
A Capital Times investigation found that of 10 unsolved murders dating back to the pre-DNA decades, at least four have been compromised by the mishandling of evidence.captimes.com
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