Monday, 6th October 2008.

Madison’s unsolved homicides: So many questions, so few answers

Posted on Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 by Bruce

Yesterday, The Capital Times quietly posted a story which no one else seems to have noticed. According to the story, on Monday, Madison police charged a man, Henry L. Leshoure, 54, with stealing a rent check from a mailbox while wandering, publicly intoxicated, from porch-to-porch at residences just blocks away from the scene of [...]

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Stonewalling and shotty investigation from the Madison PD: Business as usual?

Posted on Thursday, 15th May 2008 by Bruce

Omar Haban-Megahed was found dead in his Monroe Street, Madison home in 1998. Madison police detectives ruled it an “overdose”, even though family and friends allegedly told police repeatedly that Omar, an attorney and avid cyclist, didn’t use drugs.
Blood tests eventually showed no recreational drugs in Omar’s system. To this day, 10 years [...]

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Wisconsin media v. Dane County / City of Madison

Posted on Tuesday, 13th May 2008 by Bruce

This afternoon, The Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, The Wisconsin State Journal, WTMJ-TV of Milwaukee and WISC-TV of Madison announced that they have filed a lawsuit against Dane County and the City of Madison for withholding public records documents surrounding the 911 call which preceded Brittany Zimmermann being found murdered in her Madison home.
The suit seeks a judicial [...]

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Two days after being the subject of a post here at BadgerBlogger, Madison fugitive arrested in Chicago

Posted on Monday, 12th May 2008 by Bruce

Coincidence? We’ll probably never know. In any event, James P. Bohanan, wanted by Madison police for the murder of a Waunakee man “in cold blood” at a house party in Madison last July, was arrested this afternoon “without incident” in Chicago. They were acting on a “tip” from the Madison Police Department.
A [...]

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News Editor of Madison’s weekly Isthmus: “Madison police more tight-fisted with information” than ever before.”

Posted on Sunday, 11th May 2008 by Bruce

From an article in today’s Wisconsin State Journal.

Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and news editor of the weekly alternative newspaper Isthmus, said the police department is losing public trust over what he called “the high level of inexplicable secrecy ” in police handling of the cases, especially issues [...]

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