This is horrific, yet this guy deffinately gets the Darwin award for the year.
Fargo anyone? Read this story and imagine seeing this take place. Its unreal.

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Link Broke. But Im pretty sure you meant this one.

DNA test late; man free to kill
Sample connected to suspect 3 months after agent's death
By DERRICK NUNNALLY
dnunnally@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Aug. 16, 2006

Almost four months before state Department of Justice agent John "Jay" Balchunas was gunned down in a botched robbery in October 2004, Milwaukee police had collected a DNA sample during a sexual assault case that could have had one of Balchunas' two convicted killers behind bars well before the shooting.
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But for reasons that remain unclear, the DNA sample received by the State Crime Laboratory on July 9 was not connected to Anthony Bolden until February 2005 - four months after Balchunas' death - even though Bolden's DNA had been in state computers since his felony conviction of selling marijuana in early 2003.

The situation is similar to that surrounding the killing July 22 of Frank Moore II of Milwaukee, who authorities allege was shot by Sidney Gray the day after Gray had been released despite numerous charges that could have kept him in jail.

Bolden, 21, is in prison in Green Bay serving 87 years for convictions of felony murder in the Balchunas killing, three counts of armed robbery and second-degree sexual assault of a minor. The sexual assault was the first crime in the series but the last for which Bolden was charged. Prosecutors filed charges against Bolden on March 15, 2005, about a month after the crime lab learned that his DNA matched evidence taken from the 15-year-old girl. Bolden would later plead guilty to having had sex with her.

He was the fifth man charged of the six men who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting the girl July 6, 2004.

Criminal complaints in the matter say the girl was taken to a vacant apartment, given brandy and marijuana and then raped after she passed out. Bolden came along at the end to load the girl into his car. After dropping off a friend, he had sex with her and threw the mostly naked, partially conscious girl out in a park. Bolden claimed the sex was consensual and that he had thought the girl was older.

"I pled guilty, I did the right thing," Bolden told the Journal Sentinel in a prison interview. "I had sex with her. I didn't take it from her, (but) I did have sex with her, and by law, me being 19 and her 15, I couldn't have had sex with her."

The first evidence linking Bolden to the sexual assault was that his DNA matched that taken from the girl by a nurse, which was received by the crime lab July 9.

Bolden's DNA had been in state computers from his first felony conviction, in June 2003. Court records show Bolden pleaded guilty to dealing marijuana at Mayfair Mall on March 13, 2003.

Between the July 2004 sexual assault and his November 2004 arrest in the Balchunas case, authorities apparently were not seeking him. Department of Justice spokesman Michael Bauer said that although the lab received the rape kit of the 15-year-old victim within days, no match with Bolden was found for seven months.

Bauer could not say Wednesday whether the match with Bolden's DNA came from his sample on file or from a new sample taken after Bolden was arrested in the Balchunas killing.

"It's definitely shocking," Dan Balchunas, John Balchunas's brother, said Wednesday. "Knowing that Bolden was part of it, it's definitely disappointing."

The delay in charging Bolden with the sexual assault also angered the sexual assault victim's family.

"If DNA is found, the time lapse has got to be better than six or seven months," said the victim's mother, whose name is being withheld to protect her daughter's identity.

She said police first told her it would be "three to four weeks" before the DNA from the rape kit was tested. Then she was told "three to four months" with little explanation for the change.

"I didn't have any faith in the Police Department or the crime lab," the mother said. "There's no follow-through. There's no one calling you. You're calling them."

Milwaukee police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Wednesday that tracking down the reason for the delay in linking Bolden to the sexual assault would take time.

Bolden, like Dionny L. Reynolds - the man convicted of shooting Balchunas after Bolden reportedly patted the agent down during a robbery - confessed the slaying to police but tried unsuccessfully to fight the charge before a jury.

Both claimed their multiple, signed confessions were false and came from undue police pressure.

Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Greipp, who took over the prosecution of the sexual assault case after the previous prosecutor, Jane Carroll, was elected judge, said the crime lab has a backlog of DNA evidence waiting to be tested. "Frankly, they have a right to be frustrated, they really do," Greipp said of the victims of Bolden's crimes. "It's not anyone's fault from working on it (badly). It's just a legitimate major problem right now in the system."

Greipp added that similar delays have plagued matters besides Bolden's.

"We have a lot of cases that we want to issue," he said, "but it's completely dependent upon DNA."

Similar problems with evidence were initially cited in the Gray case, in which prosecutors said police failed to bring in a witness who would have been needed to file felony burglary charges before Gray was freed July 21.

Then officials said Monday that lost paperwork led to Gray's being freed July 9 without being charged after a June 24 arrest in the break-in of a house.

Gray is now charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the shooting death of Moore, who police said went to intervene when Gray was breaking into Moore's neighbor's house.

heh.. the Jon Benet stuff also fits into a Fargo like scenario

Opps actually thats a good one you posted but it was actually this link:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=484801

I can't imagine cleaning up that mess.

"If someone in this business says they haven't used their foot to free a log, they'd be lying," Michaud said.
I'm surprised that we don't have more of these. It should be getting pretty tough to have your trees trimmed.