WI WI - Mukwonago, WhtFem 30-55, UP7405, skeletal, shot w/.22 caliber gun, Nov'84

[kumani]

Hi all, I know this is an older thread but I wanted to say I submitted a potential match for this doe today. I'll update again.
If anyone is curious, I suggested Louise N. Zunker, missing from Portage, WI, as of August 1976. Her height, age, weight, and having only lived an hour and a half away from where the doe had been discovered, it has been eating at me. Even if it's confirmed not to be a match, I can move on and start looking deeper at others. Something about this has struck me for over a year and I attempted to contact the coroner's office but never received a response. This time, I submitted to both the DoeNetwork and NaMus. Will try to update. Take care x

 

[Bit of hope]

Hi all, I know this is an older thread but I wanted to say I submitted a potential match for this doe today. I'll update again.
If anyone is curious, I suggested Louise N. Zunker, missing from Portage, WI, as of August 1976. Her height, age, weight, and having only lived an hour and a half away from where the doe had been discovered, it has been eating at me. Even if it's confirmed not to be a match, I can move on and start looking deeper at others. Something about this has struck me for over a year and I attempted to contact the coroner's office but never received a response. This time, I submitted to both the DoeNetwork and NaMus. Will try to update. Take care x

Hi and welcome @kumani. For convenience a link to her file at Charley's and Namus Louise N. Zunker – The Charley Project https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/84012?nav

 

[iulia]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

 

[kumani]

Her NamUs page has been removed.

I just got confirmation of this and when viewing the doenetwork profile on a computer it says identified. Mary Bell from doenetwork told me she’s asking with the WI area director to make inquiries on if this was the match. Regardless, this doe finally getting her name back has made my year.

 

[cenazoic]

Louise Zunker’s thread:

WI Thread 'WI - Louise N Zunker, 56, Portage, August 17, 1976'

Sep 14, 2021

Added to NAMUS today:
The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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Demographics
Missing Age - 56 Years
Current Age - 101 Years
First Name - Louise
Middle Name - N
Last Name - Zunker
Sex - Female
Height - 5' 5" (65 Inches)
Weight - 125 - 135 lbs
Race / Ethnicity - White / Caucasian

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Circumstances
Date of Last Contact - August 17, 1976
NamUs Case Created - September 4, 2021

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Last Known Location Map
Location - Portage, Wisconsin
County - Columbia County
Missing...

• victoriarobinson642
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[cenazoic]

(wrong thead!)

 

[Keiri]

delete please. responding to wrong thread

 

[Teamir]

Hi all, I know this is an older thread but I wanted to say I submitted a potential match for this doe today. I'll update again.
If anyone is curious, I suggested Louise N. Zunker, missing from Portage, WI, as of August 1976. Her height, age, weight, and having only lived an hour and a half away from where the doe had been discovered, it has been eating at me. Even if it's confirmed not to be a match, I can move on and start looking deeper at others. Something about this has struck me for over a year and I attempted to contact the coroner's office but never received a response. This time, I submitted to both the DoeNetwork and NaMus. Will try to update. Take care x

Wow you might have got it!! I hope they confirm!

 

[Keiri]

There's a good possibility that this woman might be 20 year old Lou Ann Irby, a gogo dancer who went missing 10 September 1974 from Milwaukee. Though the Beulah Road Unidentified is on NAMUS, it doesn't appear that any family member ever submitted DNA. Her name isn't on NAMUS.

10373 Beulah Rd to W279S8845 Lookout Ln

goo.gl

If you read up on this botched case, you'll note that John Wayne Buschman was involved in her disappearance and in the murders of others. He was a Milwaukee Outlaw. Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher botched the case up according to investigators. Many of his cases involved guns.

Justice Denied

On a chilly November morning 26 years ago, Larry Anstett pulled himself out of bed before the sun rose; bundled up in corduroy pants, long johns, sweatshirt and nylon jacket…

www.milwaukeemag.com

And get this, he lived at W279S8845 Lookout Ln, Mukwonago, WI 53149, 6.3 miles from the dump site in 1975 shortly after she disappeared! I googled that she was found at 10373 Beulah Rd, Mukwonago, WI 53149. That wasn't the exact spot she was found, but I had to post some kind of address on Beulah Road to get the route on to google maps. If any locals know the exact location on Beulah Road, please post it.

She was found November 18, 1984, way after the detectives gave up on the case out of frustration with the do-nothing D A.I think Waukesha County needs to hunt down a surviving family member and have them submit DNA. I'll repost where her body was found in relation to three others.

I just read the article and am now thoroughly confused. These Waukesha bodies, the ones speculated as stoll and irby, are they on NaMus? What about the machan one? And how do they, if they do at all, relate to this mukwanago case?

 

[kumani]

I just read the article and am now thoroughly confused. These Waukesha bodies, the ones speculated as stoll and irby, are they on NaMus? What about the machan one? And how do they, if they do at all, relate to this mukwanago case?

The 1984 Mukwonago Jane Doe found on Beulah Rd's Namus was removed yesterday, which is generally a first sign of the individual no longer being unidentified. Her doenetwork was updated today to say identified. Whether it was Louise N Zunker as I submitted is still unconfirmed but I have been in direct contact with both a match coordinator and the Wisconsin area director from the doe network and I will update as soon as I get one.

 

[Quoththeraven]

There's a good possibility that this woman might be 20 year old Lou Ann Irby, a gogo dancer who went missing 10 September 1974 from Milwaukee. Though the Beulah Road Unidentified is on NAMUS, it doesn't appear that any family member ever submitted DNA. Her name isn't on NAMUS.

10373 Beulah Rd to W279S8845 Lookout Ln

goo.gl

If you read up on this botched case, you'll note that John Wayne Buschman was involved in her disappearance and in the murders of others. He was a Milwaukee Outlaw. Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher botched the case up according to investigators. Many of his cases involved guns.

Justice Denied

On a chilly November morning 26 years ago, Larry Anstett pulled himself out of bed before the sun rose; bundled up in corduroy pants, long johns, sweatshirt and nylon jacket…

www.milwaukeemag.com

And get this, he lived at W279S8845 Lookout Ln, Mukwonago, WI 53149, 6.3 miles from the dump site in 1975 shortly after she disappeared! I googled that she was found at 10373 Beulah Rd, Mukwonago, WI 53149. That wasn't the exact spot she was found, but I had to post some kind of address on Beulah Road to get the route on to google maps. If any locals know the exact location on Beulah Road, please post it.

She was found November 18, 1984, way after the detectives gave up on the case out of frustration with the do-nothing D A.I think Waukesha County needs to hunt down a surviving family member and have them submit DNA. I'll repost where her body was found in relation to three others.

Lou Ann Irby should be LuAnn Irby, according to her father's obit, which states that LuAnn preceded him in death. It was misspelled in the above news article. I assume she was never found and she was legally declared dead after 7 years. Her gravestone states her death was 11 Sept 1974 which is the day after she was last seen.

Luann A. Irby (1954-1974) - Find a Grave Memorial

www.findagrave.com

John Irby Sr. Obituary | Feb 5, 2025 | West Fargo, ND

Share memories & support the family

www.westfuneralhome.com

 

[Quoththeraven]

I just read the article and am now thoroughly confused. These Waukesha bodies, the ones speculated as stoll and irby, are they on NaMus? What about the machan one? And how do they, if they do at all, relate to this mukwanago case?

I have no idea if Stoll or Irby are on NAMUS. I speculate that since LuAnn left the club with a motorcycle club member and both her and Stoll lived on Machan's farm, who was later found murdered on his farm by the Outlaws. I also speculate that since the Outlaw's executed people by shooting them in the back of the head and since the unidentified Mukwonago woman was found with a bullet hole in the back of her head that she might be LuAnn Irby. Cliff Machan, though, was shot in the stomach with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Since the 1984 Mukwonago Jane Doe found on Beulah Road may have been recently identified we can only wait and see whether she is LuAnn Irby, Louise N Zunker or someone else.

A Look At The Outlaws Motorcycle Club

A Look At The Outlaws Motorcycle Club

www.huffpost.com

The murder of Clifford Machan, who was a co-conspirator in the Anstett bombing. Machan owned the arm where the bomb was first assembled. The disappearances of Outlaws’ associate Joe Stoll and his 20-year-old girlfriend, LuAnn Irby, both believed to be conspirators in the Anstett bombing and stayed at the Machan farm.

Justice Denied

On a chilly November morning 26 years ago, Larry Anstett pulled himself out of bed before the sun rose; bundled up in corduroy pants, long johns, sweatshirt and nylon jacket…

www.milwaukeemag.com

 

[Keiri]

Ok now I get it, thank you @Quoththeraven and @kumani
You’d think Irby and Stoll should be on NaMus, though. Interesting.

 

[Deleted member 19575]

Doe Network has her identified but no details. Any info on the woman next to her who was identified?

 

[DS2021]

Doe Network has her identified but no details. Any info on the woman next to her who was identified?

Shes not listed as identified

811UFWI

 

[DS2021]

Dbm

 

[CooperDyl]

Shes not listed as identified

811UFWI

Looks like she’s still unidentified on DoeNetwork, but clicking the link on their page to go through to NAMUS brings up an error page, as usually happens when NAMUS removes their page as they’ve been identified. Interesting.

 

[DS2021]

I have an email in to doe network

Wait, no i dont. That's for a different case, disregard

 

[Keiri]

Shes not listed as identified

811UFWI

She’s removed from NamUs, but that’s all I know. (Mukwonago doe)

 

[Quoththeraven]

Ok now I get it, thank you @Quoththeraven and @kumani
You’d think Irby and Stoll should be on NaMus, though. Interesting.

I agree. You would think two alleged murder victims would be on NAMUS. Former Milwaukee Police Detective Roger Hinterhauer wrote a book Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied which is available on Amazon Kindle.

You can read excerpts from the book at Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

He chronicles a decades-long investigation into the Milwaukee Outlaws and Milwaukee Outlaw John Wayne Buschman aka Flapper who is suspected by police to have murdered Stoll, Irby and many others. Buschman was never brought to trial because of the incompetence of former Waukesha DA Paul Bucher.