WI WI - WALTER E. ELLIS, Milwaukee North Side Strangler

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An undated photo released by the Milwaukee County Jail shows Walter E. Ellis, 49, of Milwaukee.

Article
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/08/national/main5292868.shtml

 

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More Charges Possible In Serial Homicide Case

Victims' Families Relived, Angry Over Arrest

MILWAUKEE -- More charges are expected this week against the Milwaukee man suspected of killing several women.

Police said DNA links Walter E. Ellis to the deaths of at least nine women over the course of 21 years. Ellis is expected to make his first court appearance Wednesday. continued

http://www.wisn.com/news/20803607/detail.html

 

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Missed Opportunities to Catch Strangler Suspect

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/57907067.html

 

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Serial killings suspect was violent as youth, affable as adult, neighbors say

On Oct. 13, 1994, when Ebony Owens was 9 years old, a neighbor paid her and a cousin 50 cents each to haul some trash to the neighbor's backyard bin.

When Owens opened the bin, a woman's legs popped up. Even now, nearly 15 years later, Owens remembers the woman's nails were painted red.

Owens' childhood horror was refreshed Tuesday when she realized that the woman she found, Carron D. Kilpatrick, 33, was the fourth of at least eight women police say were slain by Walter E. Ellis. Ellis was a former neighbor of Owens' and a man she has known virtually her entire life. continued

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/57858482.html

 

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Criminal Complaint Document PDF

 

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Suspected serial killer's DNA profile was missing

Sample was taken in 2001, but officials say they didn't receive it

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/57936282.html

 

[RLynne]

That is so tragic that someone served 13 years for one of the deaths.

Here is a link to the Court of Appeals case that granted Chaunte Ott's motion for a new trial: http://www.wicourts.gov/ca/opinion/DisplayDocument.html?content=html&seqNo=35012

...and here is a link to an article about the Milwaukee DA's office decision to not re-try him: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/47055792.html

It's pretty clear that the cops and the DA's office still think he's guilty (I disagree).

 

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Loss of Ellis' DNA sample may have been fatal for woman

A top Department of Justice official admitted Wednesday that had the DNA of suspected serial killer Walter Ellis not been mishandled, at least one woman might still be alive.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/58299072.html

 

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Ellis is shackled to the floor as well as being handcuffed during his court appearance Wednesday.
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Photo Gallery Court Appearance
http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/58176922.html

 

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Records describe brutal past for suspect

Ellis did time for beating woman with hammer

The man charged with killing Milwaukee prostitutes used a hammer, a screwdriver and his bare hands to hurt different women over nearly a quarter-century, according to his dozen criminal cases analyzed Wednesday by the Journal Sentinel.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/58147737.html

 

[Kat]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/10/national/main5299632.shtml
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 10, 2009

...Ellis, who moved to the neighborhood from Mississippi as a child, is described in court documents as an unemployed laborer without a high school diploma. He made his first court appearance on Wednesday, when a court commissioner set his bond at $1 million. Police have said Ellis' DNA matches that found on nine women ages 16 to 41 who were killed in the area from 1986 to 2007.

He has been charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of Joyce Mims in 1997 and Ouithreaun Stokes in 2007. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 23. Ellis's attorney, Alejandro Lockwood, did not immediately return a telephone call for comment...

More info at link, I just snipped some personal info reported about the offender.

 

[RLynne]

Chaunte Ott is planning on suing the Milwaukee Police for wrongful conviction:

According to a release from the law firm, the suit will claim that police coerced witnesses to testify falsely against Ott, and withheld information from real witnesses who had seen Payne shortly before her death.

More info at this link: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/58493417.html

I grew up near Milwaukee, and still live in Wisconsin, so I've been following this story for awhile. I find it interesting how LE embraces DNA technology, except for when it shows that they might have made a mistake...

 

[RLynne]

DNA of 12,000 felons missing from state registry

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/59488577.html

A fellow prisoner posed as Walter E. Ellis in 2001 and gave a DNA sample for him, keeping the accused serial killer out of a statewide database and letting him avoid capture for years, according to a state Department of Justice memo.

It wasn't an isolated incident. DNA for about 12,000 felons convicted since 2000 is missing from the database, the department said Wednesday.

 

[Anais]

I see on this mornings local news today's tmj4 that W. Ellis's trial has been postponed from June 2010 until Oct. 2010 fue to a new lawyer on his case! Grr.......Also I am wondering if we can set something up to do a timeline and follow this case etc. unless there is one?

Link to article:

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/90359774.html

 

[Texas Mist]

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Ellis had been scheduled for trial in April, however Ellis would be convicted automatically if he pleads no contest. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning.

more here

http://www.wkow.com/global/story.asp?s=13732927

 

[fran]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/112377389.html

No pleas entered in serial killing case

Accused serial killer Walter Ellis on Thursday apparently changed his mind about making a plea in his case, surprising lawyers, media and victims' relatives who had gathered for what was expected to be a resolution of the case.

As the expected plea hearing got under way, Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dennis Cimpl instead asked lawyers to begin discussing several pretrial motions that had been set to be heard on Wednesday, before Ellis signaled his desire to enter pleas.

His own defense attorney, Patrick Earle, had not expected that turn, and did not even have his file with him to argue the motions. Cimpl adjourned the hearing for 30 minutes to give Earle time to retrieve his file.

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Ellis again leans toward plea in serial killings

Dec. 29, 2010

Suspected serial killer Walter Ellis has again indicated he wants to enter a plea that would resolve the case short of a trial, according to court records and the prosecutor.

Last week, Ellis appeared in court when he was expected to change his plea but did not.

Ellis' attorney, Patrick T. Earle, and Milwaukee Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams appeared Wednesday afternoon before Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Dennis Cimpl to schedule a projected plea hearing for 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to online court records.

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Ellis' DNA also was found on an eighth murdered prostitute and a teenage runaway, but he has not been charged with those killings, authorities said.

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http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/112619689.html

 

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Accused serial killer Walter Ellis changes his mind again about reversing plea

Ellis is accused of killing seven women over 21 years in Milwakee

3:05 p.m. CST, January 3, 2011

A man accused of killing seven women over 21 years in Milwaukee has changed his mind again about reversing his plea.

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Judge Dennis Cimpl told Ellis he wouldn't schedule any more hearings to change his plea and said Ellis' next chance will be at trial in April.

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http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-010311-ellis-hearing-closing-story,0,3624398.story?track=rss

 

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http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/116824883.html

To the end, Milwaukee serial killer Walter E. Ellis stayed silent about the seven homicides he committed over 21 years.

 

[OkieGranny]

From December 2013:

http://fox6now.com/2013/12/02/death-of-serial-killer-leaves-questions-unanswered/

A serial killer who eluded Milwaukee investigators for decades is dead. Walter Ellis died in a hospital near the South Dakota where he was serving multiple life sentences. Officials say Ellis died of natural causes.

Ellis&#8217; case involved the rapes and murders of Milwaukee women between 1986 and 2007. Some hoped he would talk more before he died...

&#8220;Why he wanted to kill these women it&#8217;ll go with him to his grave here. He would have been an interesting person if he would have decided to sit down like Bundy at the last minute if he knew he was dying and clear his soul, but nothing,&#8221; said Spingola. &#8220;I just wonder about the other cases that he was mentioned in. There&#8217;s at least five, maybe seven more that he&#8217;s a good suspect in that we&#8217;ll probably never know.&#8221;