Deceased/Not Found WI - Sandra Eckert, 70, Franklin, 26 Mar 2021

[imstilla.grandma]

WISN-TV reported that police “took one man into custody June 7 to conduct a search warrant at his Waukesha home in connection to a first-degree intentional homicide charge and hiding a corpse.” However, he has not been charged.

“We confiscated electronic devices and additional evidence from his home during our search warrant. We have not returned any evidence because of the active and ongoing nature of the case,” Franklin police told WISN. Heavy has reached out to Franklin’s police chief for verification of this information.

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Eckert’s husband, Wes, says detectives have named him and his brother “persons of interest” in the case.

“There’s no evidence and plenty of lies,” said Wes, referring to how police are handling the investigation.

He says police showed up at his brother’s home last week with guns drawn, and took his brother’s cell phone, computer, guns for hunting, and cash.

“They said her cell phone was in his driveway,” said Wes. “That is just not true. They searched my home a year ago too, found nothing, and still have my stuff.”

Wes says after searching his brother’s home, Franklin police showed up at his house.

"They were yelling at me, saying he was down in a jail cell crying,” said Wes. “They told me I should go down and tell the truth to save him. They asked why I was letting him take the blame. It is a total squeeze job, and there is nothing to squeeze out my brother or me.”

Police now investigating Sandra Eckert's disappearance as a homicide

Franklin Police Department announced it's now investigating Sandra Eckert's disappearance as a homicide and they have identified two people of interest.

www.tmj4.com

 

[NeverPersonal]

WISN-TV reported that police “took one man into custody June 7 to conduct a search warrant at his Waukesha home in connection to a first-degree intentional homicide charge and hiding a corpse.” However, he has not been charged.

“We confiscated electronic devices and additional evidence from his home during our search warrant. We have not returned any evidence because of the active and ongoing nature of the case,” Franklin police told WISN. Heavy has reached out to Franklin’s police chief for verification of this information.

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Eckert’s husband, Wes, says detectives have named him and his brother “persons of interest” in the case.

“There’s no evidence and plenty of lies,” said Wes, referring to how police are handling the investigation.

He says police showed up at his brother’s home last week with guns drawn, and took his brother’s cell phone, computer, guns for hunting, and cash.

“They said her cell phone was in his driveway,” said Wes. “That is just not true. They searched my home a year ago too, found nothing, and still have my stuff.”

Wes says after searching his brother’s home, Franklin police showed up at his house.

"They were yelling at me, saying he was down in a jail cell crying,” said Wes. “They told me I should go down and tell the truth to save him. They asked why I was letting him take the blame. It is a total squeeze job, and there is nothing to squeeze out my brother or me.”

Police now investigating Sandra Eckert's disappearance as a homicide

Franklin Police Department announced it's now investigating Sandra Eckert's disappearance as a homicide and they have identified two people of interest.

www.tmj4.com

he is so intent on telling everyone stuff to the point I *almost* feel he is innocent. I have mixed feelings about this case. Strange strange situation.

 

[caradana]

I work in finance, and I can count on one hand the number of people I encounter who were convicted of a financial crime in the 1970s. It was damn hard to commit that kind of fraud before the internet. It had to be overt and pretty obvious to even get prosecuted back then.

A fight over contesting the mother’s will. Imagine the emotional layers in that argument. They were married long enough that she likely knew the mother firsthand. The mother cut the son out entirely or undercut him (wow). Sandra is 70 … if they’re fighting about this they were counting on the money for some reason (men convicted of financial crimes rarely ascend financial ladders after). She was wearing college gear. This fight is so loaded with emotional triggers and potential resentments.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The Franklin Police Department said investigators have two persons of interest in the March 26, 2021, disappearance of Sandy Eckert.
"We no longer have a missing person investigation," Sgt. Jeremy Fadness tells PEOPLE. "We have a homicide investigation and we have identified two people of interest. The investigation has touched the hearts of the officers and investigators and we are dedicated to finding out exactly what happened to Mrs. Eckert."
Both people were known to her, police said, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

"It's promising to know that answers and justice are on the horizon," one of her daughters said in a statement to TMJ4 News. "Although answers won't bring my mom back, they will help to properly grieve and honor her. I won't stop fighting until she gets the justice she deserves, and I thank each and every person that has helped get us to this point."
Investigators searched a home in Waukesha on June 7, Fadness says.
More at link:

Missing Wis. Woman, 70, Now Believed to Be Victim of Homicide as Police Identify 2 Persons of Interest

Sandy Eckert disappeared from her Franklin home on March 26, 2021

people.com

 

[renaebri]

Is there a reason the Fox river hasn't been brought up? looks like a pretty secluded access spot along big bend dr

 

[Armchair63]

Sgt. Jeremy Fadness said in April that Franklin police were following numerous leads. The investigation has led to checking bodies of water near where Sandra Eckert's car was last spotted.

The searching bodies of water seems to be a likely scenario.
Husband and wife have a bad argument. She storms out of the house.either she has an accident or she takes matters into her own hands.
Need to call in AWP Adventures with Purpose.

Franklin police now treating missing woman Sandra Eckert's case as a homicide and there are two people of interest

Sandra Eckert, 70, went missing on March 26, 2021, after she left her Franklin residence following an argument with her husband, Wes Eckert Sr.

www.jsonline.com

 

[renaebri]

Sgt. Jeremy Fadness said in April that Franklin police were following numerous leads. The investigation has led to checking bodies of water near where Sandra Eckert's car was last spotted.

The searching bodies of water seems to be a likely scenario.
Husband and wife have a bad argument. She storms out of the house.either she has an accident or she takes matters into her own hands.
Need to call in AWP Adventures with Purpose.

Franklin police now treating missing woman Sandra Eckert's case as a homicide and there are two people of interest

Sandra Eckert, 70, went missing on March 26, 2021, after she left her Franklin residence following an argument with her husband, Wes Eckert Sr.

www.jsonline.com

AWP did a video on her once, they checked all the lakes nearby.
I don't think they'll go again since it's considered foul play with suspects.. they don't take those cases anymore.
It's too bad they didn't check the river..

 

[NeverPersonal]

I listened to the Vanished pod and I changed my mind, 100000% this man did it. wow.

 

[JnRyan]

The Charley Project has updated their page on Sandra.

Sandra A. Eckert – The Charley Project

This definitely looks suspicious. Its hard to not focus on her husband in this one.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

 

[bearfossils]

Newly unsealed court documents detail investigation into missing Sandra Eckert's disappearance

Along with dozens of items including a gun found at their residence, warrants detail interviews where investigators learned at least one neighbor heard what sounded like gunshots around the time that Sandra went missing.

Most notably, the documents detail concerns that the Eckerts' kids had about the disappearance of Sandra.

One daughter tells investigators that she witnessed Wes once telling Sandra that "he would kill Sandra, stuff her body in a water heater."

The documents go on to say that detectives learned Wes did scrap at least two water heaters in the immediate days following Sandra's disappearance. Investigators even confirmed with a local scrap yard that Wes did scrap the metal. When asked what would happen if a human body somehow was put through their shredding machine, the documents say management "stated that the shredder would obliterate a human body and that there would not be anything left of it."

 

[renaebri]

Damn... they gotta find the car then, might be evidence there even if she's not with it.

I can't get over this route of travel, have they not searched water in the direction the car was seen going? Very curious where the cop stopped following it / where the car turned. Cop was following for a ways to know all this, so I'm thinking what if it was known to the driver of her car and that's why they made some of these turns? I'm not exactly sure where it stopped being tracked so the bottom red part could end sooner.

An interesting note is that the latest google imagery for this area is 4/1/2021, just 6 days after she went missing.
That doesn't happen often, with as good of quality as that date is...

 

[elframo]

The Vanished podcast has done an update to its previous podcast claiming to have new information that won't solve the case, but will move it a step forward..

The Vanished Podcast Episodes — The Vanished Podcast

The Vanished is a true crime podcast that explores the stories of those who have gone missing. The Vanished goes beyond conventional news reports to take a deep dive into the story of a different missing person each week. Host Marissa Jones brings you exclusive interviews with family members, friend

www.thevanishedpodcast.com

 

[PommyMommy]

MAR 26, 2023

Two years later, Franklin woman is still missing

Sandra Eckert was last seen at her home the night of March 26, 2021.

www.wisn.com

[...]

Franklin police said that car was last seen driving later that same night heading southbound on Crowbar Drive in Muskego, nearly eight miles from her home.

The car has never been found.

Two search warrants were unsealed in July 2022.

Franklin police confirmed the search warrants were for a homicide investigation, and they had at least two people of interest, although no one has ever been charged with the crime.

[...]

 

[MajorHoople]

Missing Franklin Woman's Children Await Answers On 2-Year Anniversary Of Her Disappearance

CBS 58 - Mar 27, 2023

 

[KooshBall]

Whoever was really driving the car at 3am must have been horrified when the police started following it. If only the driver had committed a traffic violation and pulled over, her body might have been discovered in it and the case solved that night.

 

[PommyMommy]

APR 30, 2023
Local Event Brings Advocacy for Missing Persons of Wisconsin
[...]

At the 2023 Annual Missing Persons Awareness Event at the Brown County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday, families with missing loved ones came together to share their stories. There were also various organizations present to share resources they have available to families of missing persons, and also organizations that gave demonstrations on tools they use to help locate the missing.

[...]

Danielle Eckert’s mother, Sandra Eckert, has been missing from Franklin, WI for two years. Danielle stressed the importance of never giving up.

“Don’t give up hope, it might seem like you’re not getting answers or they’re not doing anything. But they really are, behind the scenes,” said Eckert. “It’s hard to say I’m okay, because I’m not. I’ll never be the same. But we have to move on and make mom proud.”

[...]

 

[VaYank5150]

Has the car ever been recovered?

 

[dotr]

Has the car ever been recovered?

Cannot find an update about the car, assuming it is not recovered, speculation.​

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“The vehicle was last seen by Muskego police at 3 a.m. on Saturday, March 27,” the website says. “It was traveling southbound on Racine Avenue, westbound on Tans Drive, and then southbound on Crowbar Drive. Police did not pull the car over because there was not a missing person alert out yet and no reason otherwise.”

''There’s one strange clue that’s emerged in Eckert’s disappearance. According to the website set up to find her, Eckert may have been driving a 2005 Dark Gray Dodge Stratus, with a Wisconsin License plate 319 LGT (the muffler is on the passenger side).''
2022

''Newly unsealed court documents detail where investigators stand in the search for a missing Franklin woman.''

 

[VaYank5150]

Does anyone know if LE has searched this place?