Posted on 04/01/2011 7:08:38 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
MADISON (WKOW) -- Authorities say 26-year-old Katherine Windels sent disturbing emails to 16 Republican senators, repeatedly threatening to kill them.
Windels, of Cross Plains, faces four charges including using a computer to send a threat and creating a bomb scare.
Two of the counts are felonies, two are misdemeanors. The criminal complaint says the emails were sent on March 9, the same day senate Republicans passed the revised budget repair bill with no Democrats present.
According to the complaint, Windels told the senators "you will be killed and your families [sic] will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks." She threatened to "put a nice little bullet in your head," and made reference to several bombs.
Investigators visited Windels at her home the next day. According to the complaint, she told them she had sent the emails, and did so because she was very angry about what the senators had done. She also said she didn't intend to carry out the threats, and was not arrested.
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed the charges Thursday. He says "it's odd" law enforcement never took Windels into custody.
"The reality is, the person was not placed into custody, so at some point, law enforcement didn't see the person as an imminent threat," Ozanne said. "It's not that the case was not serious or taken seriously by law enforcement or by this office."
This morning, the Justice Department sent a letter to the media, saying it was concerned about the "lack of action" on the case by the D.A.'s office. The Justice Department had referred the case to Ozanne two weeks prior.
Ozanne says his office filed charges in an appropriate amount of time.
"The file was reviewed as quickly as possible," he said.
He declined to comment on whether the letter could be the result of mounting tensions between his office, and the Justice Department. The two are pitted against each other in the lawsuit against the Governor's budget repair bill.
Windels is not in custody. The D.A.'s office says she won't be arrested.
The district attorney's office said Friday morning, the 26-year-old will now make her initial appearance Thursday, April 21.
If convicted on all counts, she could face up to seven years, six months in prison.
~~Thomas Jefferson
Unfortunately, the chains got hacked off a long time ago.
Unless reports of her only having a 2-yr. Associates Degree are wrong, she’s not a certified teacher. She could work at a private preschool or an after-school child-sitting program though. I’ve also seen reports that her father is a psychiatrist and her mother is a Madison area school psychologist, which indicates the undereducated, still at home at 26, Katherine probably has a problem-filled history.
No, you can now make very specific threats to kill Republican lawmakers and their families and you don’t get arrested!
Hmmm, didn’t law enforcement in Tucson ignore the obvious violent rantings of Loughner until he finally killed people. I suppose they just thought he wouldn’t REALLY do anything...
Yes we are all shocked (shocked I say!!!) she is a teacher. On top of that she graduated from Milwaukee Area Technical College which is a communist bastion (not joking) This college sneaked in all kinds of salary increases before Governor Walker signed the law
Suspect in threats to senators investigated last fall
http://addins.wkow.com/blogs/scoop/2011/03/suspect-in-threats-to-senators-investigated-last-fall
She is a 2010 graduate of Madison Area Technical College with an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education
She’s a dead ringer for my sister’s daughter-in-law. Sis’ daughter-in-law is a teacher too but in Missouri at a church school.
I gotta send her a link to this. She’ll get a laugh out of it.
On second thought I won’t do it, what with all the comments about how ugly she is. My niece-in-law is not ugly, being a conservative.
Man, she looks whacked! Typical libtard expression: dull and empty.
She actually looks like one of Manson’s girls with the “X” between her eyes!
she graduated from Milwaukee Area Technical College>>>>
Your account sounds right on to me. She has been kind of a nut for a while. An underachiever given her parents who must agonize over her
sorry, “Loughner with hair.”
Loughner, Judge Sumi, this broad, Sherrif and Mrs.Laughtenschlager, The Conyers Clan, Any big city mayor and their wives, children, siblings, cousins, etc....
Wisconsin is one of only two states that completely prohibits anyone but police officers and sheriffs' deputies from carrying concealed weapons for self defense.
The new governor and pubbies want to change the law, but in WI. they don't recognize the 2nd Amendment as part of the US Constitution.
If one of the kids in her classes drew a picture that contained a gun, what would happen to that kid?
union thug bump
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He thinks it's 'odd' that unionized law enforcement officers didn't take a unionized teacher into custody for threatening statements made in conjunction with a bunch of union goons.
It appears as though Mr. Ozanne has a bit of 'babe in the woods' about him.
I really feel sorry for her.
She went to college to become a teacher in Madison.
She most likely assumed that she would be a Millionaire by the age of 45 and retire at 55 with a MASSIVE pension.
Now these evil republicans have stolen her dream.
Who could blame the horse faced Moonbat?
“The hand that rocks the cradle...”
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