1960
Nineteen-year-old David F. Spanbauer breaks into a Green Bay residence rapes a 16-year-old babysitter and shoots the babysitter’s uncle, who survives his wound. Spanbauer is sentenced in Brown County to 70 years in prison for that offense and a burglary and rape from Outagamie County, a Winnebago County burglary and a Milwaukee County armed burglary, all of which occurred in January and February 1960. He is released in 1972.
1972
Aug. 16: Spanbauer is arrested in Dane County for abduction and rape of a hitchhiker. In May 1973, Spanbauer is sentenced to a revocation of his parole, thereby sending him back to prison on his original charge. He also receives a new sentence of 18 years in prison on the new charges, but the judge allows the sentence to be served concurrent to his Brown County sentence. He is released in 1991.
1992
Aug. 23: 10-year-old Ronelle Eichstedt disappears while riding her bicycle in rural Fond du Lac County.
Sept. 30: Eichstedt's body is discovered in a farm field in Iowa County in southwestern Wisconsin.
1994
July 3: A 24-year-old Illinois woman is the target of an attempted abduction by Spanbauer near Hartman Creek State Park in Waupaca County. That same day, Spanbauer burglarizes an Appleton residence.
July 9: 21-year-old Trudi Jeschke is shot to death in a northside Appleton home after apparently surprising a burglar.
Sept. 5: 12-year-old Cora Jones disappears in Waupaca County.
Sept. 10: Two hunters discover Jones' body in Langlade County.
Oct. 13: Spanbauer burglarizes an Appleton residence.
Oct. 20: A 15-year-old girl is sexually assaulted in her Appleton home.
Nov. 5: A 31-year-old woman is sexually assaulted in her Appleton home.
Nov. 14: Spanbauer is arrested in Combined Locks after attempting to break into a residence. Spanbauer was tackled by homeowner Gerald Argall after fleeing on foot from behind his house.
Nov. 15: Spanbauer confesses to the attempted abduction near Hartman Creek.
Nov. 18: Spanbauer confesses to the Eichstedt, Jeschke and Jones murders and the sexual assaults in Appleton.
Dec. 20: Spanbauer is sentenced to three consecutive life terms plus 403 years.
The bleeding-heart judges who kept releasing this monster should be charged with accessory to rape and murder.
NO ONE will claim the body, according to today's Post-Crescent. There will be no funeral, according to prison officials. They intend to bury the monster, though. I say they should leave the slimy body out to rot in a courtyard and charge admission to view it. Proceeds to go to the families of the murdered girls.
12 = 70. Unbelievable.
We have a similar case now of a missing woman. The man who they believe killed her has been caught, but they haven't found the body yet. He, too, had just been released from prison. Wisconsin needs the death penalty. That's the only way to stop this madness of releasing dangerous criminals back into our communities!
Was the homeowner charged with assault for this heinous attack?
So they didn't remove the pillow that had smashed down over his face.
Judges are nothing more than trial lawyers in batsuits. The whole profession has a stake in keeping the justice system a revolving door of early release, sentence commutation and parole so there will always be work for their colleagues. The fact that this industry is built and sustained on the suffering and senseless deaths of thousands of innocents is of no concern to any of them.