Posted on 08/15/2009 9:51:55 AM PDT by TheOldLady
JEFFERSON — The defense attorney for 76-year-old Edward Wayne Edwards said his client’s mood Thursday was "appropriate for the gravity" of the situation: a charge of double murder.
Public defender Jeffrey De La Rosa said Edwards was "serious, reserved, and definitely not taking the charges lightly" before Edwards was brought into court in a wheelchair.
With victims’ family members filling the first two rows of spectator seats, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Randy Koschnick ordered Edwards held on $2 million bail in the 1980 slayings of Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, two Fort Atkinson-area high school sweethearts. A preliminary hearing was set for Aug. 27.
Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ argued Edwards was a flight risk, partly because he fled Wisconsin in 1980 after police questioned him about the fate of the teenagers.
"As soon as the police talked to him, he packed up his entire family in the middle of the night during a school year and left without any advance notice to his landlord or employer," Happ said.
Authorities believe Edwards lived with his family in a campground adjacent to the Concord House in the summer of 1980 and later moved to a home about three miles from the dance hall. On Aug. 9, 1980, Hack and Drew attended a wedding reception at the Concord House but never arrived in Fort Atkinson where they were scheduled to meet friends. Their bodies were found nearly three months later.
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Wayne to go.
“My first thread [tears up], so of course it’s about Wayne syndrome.”
LOL
Hey, a lot of these murders took place in the South. Was it not a thing at one time to name people Wayne in the South?
No offense meant.
I knew that there were a lot of them, but not that many.
I’m not sure how they nailed this guy but I believe DNA evidence had something to do with it.
I remember reading an article about the thousands of unsolved homicides in this country where blood evidence is still available to be tested. I believe money is the main reason most of this available evidence has so far not been tested.
Probably after John Wayne. That’s one of the things that make Wayne syndrome so puzzling.
That would be correct, and you win the prize for being the first to admit that you didn't read the article! And your prize is: That's okay.
From the article: "On July 8, DNA from semen on Drew’s pants, found alongside a road five days after the couple were reported missing, was connected to DNA from Edwards that police obtained this June with a search warrant..."
Now can we talk about the Mark of Wayne?
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