GUILTY WI - Matthew Graville, 27, autistic, Dane County, 30 June 2012

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wkow.com/story/26473045/2014/09/08/vogelsberg-trial-to-start-tuesday-jury-selection-today

A Mazomanie man accused of killing half-brother will have his trial this week.

A jury is expected to be chosen Monday in the trial for Jeffrey Vogelsberg. Vogelsberg is accused of killing Matthew Graville and hiding his body.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/v...4b3699de6833a9b383c9/WI--Missing-Man-Homicide

A former Wisconsin man accused of killing his half brother and then hiding the body would torment the autistic man, beating him with a board and shooting him with a BB gun, a prosecutor alleged in opening statements Tuesday...

Assistant District Attorney Robert Kaiser told jurors that Graville's beating death was a secret kept by his half brother and three other people, exposed only after Vogelsberg's grandfather, who cared deeply about Graville, pushed to learn his whereabouts...

By July 20, Kaiser said, Robar was asking where Graville was, because Graville was supposed to come live with him in Fort Atkinson... Robar testified that Graville didn't appear at a party at his home on July 8 that celebrated Remus' graduation, and couldn't get a straight answer about where he was.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wkow.com/story/26501900/...on-day-two-of-jeffrey-vogelsberg-murder-trial

Day two of the murder trial for Jeffrey Vogelsberg brought many disturbing details to light. Attorneys wanted to give jurors an idea of the abuse Vogelsberg inflicted on his half brother before he died...

McCumber says Vogelsberg would often punch and kick his half brother, shoot him with BB guns, torture him with various cruel techniques, and would beat him with a wooden two by four that carried a disturbing message. "The defendant had written on it on one side "Matthew Motivator." And the other side "Homie be Good Stick,"' McCumber explained during Wednesday's court proceeding...

Both Robar and McCumber say they didn't turn Vogelsberg in to police because they were afraid of what he might do to them.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonews...cle_dde14850-238c-51d9-808c-6edb67ae58bd.html

When Jeffrey Vogelsberg and Robert McCumber spoke by phone after McCumber found Matthew Graville dead in July 2012, it was decided that McCumber would wrap Graville in plastic and put him in Vogelsberg’s chest freezer.

That much was agreed upon in testimony Wednesday by two key witnesses in Vogelsberg’s first-degree murder trial. The questions were: Who made that decision, and did Vogelsberg coerce McCumber into doing it?

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Just horrible...I don't really have words for all that. RIP Matthew, I'm so sorry you had to go through this hell.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonews...cle_98ee5b4a-e1b7-559e-a243-491b049ca38b.html

The first-degree murder trial of Jeffrey Vogelsberg, who is accused of killing his autistic half-brother in 2012, remains on hold after the judge in the case was told that he is still undergoing medical tests at UW Hospital...

Vogelsberg's trial started on Sept. 8, but has been on hold since Thursday afternoon, when he was taken by ambulance to UW Hospital after the results of a medical test taken hours earlier showed a potentially serious health concern. He remained at the hospital on Friday.

Dane County Circuit Judge Julie Genovese said in court Monday that she has not been told what Vogelsberg's medical condition is, other than that doctors want him kept at the hospital for tests, and that he has been moved to the hospital's secure floor.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_829a27a0-eb62-55c9-849d-255eded9bbe2.html

Robert McCumber, who hid Matthew Graville’s body in a freezer and helped Jeffrey Vogelsberg bury it, would have been freed from the Dane County Jail on Wednesday after 683 days under a sentencing recommendation made by prosecutors and McCumber’s lawyer.

But despite McCumber’s cooperation with police that helped them find Graville’s body buried near Lone Rock, and his detailed testimony at Vogelsberg’s trial last week, Dane County Circuit Judge Julie Genovese said it wasn’t enough... Genovese sentenced McCumber to four years in prison followed by 18 months of extended supervision.

The sentence came after McCumber pleaded guilty Wednesday to hiding a corpse.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/lo...cle_e2faf0ad-3b7d-5ed3-8974-887fe0b5d300.html

The first-degree murder trial of Jeffrey Vogelsberg, which had been delayed since Thursday afternoon while Vogelsberg was in a hospital, ended abruptly Tuesday when Vogelsberg pleaded no contest to a lesser form of homicide.

Vogelsberg, 30, pleaded no contest to second-degree reckless homicide for the 2012 death of his autistic half-brother, Matthew Graville, 27. Charges of first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse and intimidating a witness were dismissed as part of a plea agreement.

Assistant District Attorney Robert Kaiser said that under the agreement, he would seek up to 12 years in prison for Vogelsberg, followed by seven years of extended supervision.

That's nowhere near long enough. Why are they letting Vogelsberg off so easy?

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Poor Matthew...He went though hell and that guy will be a free man again in just a few years.

 

[OkieGranny]

I hope Vogelsberg's hospital trip was because he has terminal cancer or something. That's the only way I can see any justice in this. The guy is a vicious, sadistic killer.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.winonadailynews.com/news...cle_b2ce0fd6-f5c9-5c2e-aa29-a14fd9694b39.html

Vogelsberg pleaded no contest in September to second-degree reckless homicide, a charge punishable by up to 25 years in the state prison system.

Dane County Circuit Judge Julie Genovese handed down that maximum sentence Monday, ordering him to spend 15 years in prison and 10 years on extended supervision.

She said she believed Vogelsberg enjoyed beating Graville. She told him she thought something was broken inside him and doubted he could be rehabilitated.

 

[Tulessa]

http://www.winonadailynews.com/news...cle_b2ce0fd6-f5c9-5c2e-aa29-a14fd9694b39.html

Still not enough.