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Originally Posted by golfnutt
The larger the investigation, the higher the intelligence is required to avoid capture. Doesn't sound like a lot of resources were deployed. 7 victims over 21 years does make it tougher. Detectives retire which makes continuity challenging.
Young African-American women were murdered. The Milwaukee police didn't completely give up. They got the bastard. I don't care what they did for a living or how they lived their lives, each one of these women were some man's daughter. I have two daughters. They are my sunshine. One is a 31 year old former all American track athlete, hence my 2+2 name. Yeah, yeah. I'm old.
From FOX6 in Milwaukee, POSTED 3:51 PM, DECEMBER 2, 2013, BY MYRA SANCHICK, UPDATED AT 08:14PM, DECEMBER 2, 2013
Steven Spingola was a Milwaukee homicide detective who worked on two of the murders associated with Ellis.
"They were choked and they apparently went with him willingly up until the point the homicides occurred," said Spingola.
Ellis had been arrested twelve times for various offenses between 1981 and 1998. However, he wasn't pinned as being a serial killer until 2009. One reason Ellis got away with it at first...
"The victims were prostitutes. They had drugs in their system. They had multiple sources of DNA," said Spingola.
Ellis also eluded police because his DNA was missing from the state's data banks. It turns out Ellis got another inmate to submit DNA under Ellis' name.
Eventually Milwaukee police re-examined evidence that led them to Ellis. But that wasn't before two others, Chaunte Ott and William Avery, were convicted for two of the murders and later freed. Both are suing for wrongful convictions. (end)
One good thing, besides the son of a ***** dying, new procedures have been implemented at the Department of Criminal Investigation in Madison, WI to prevent these types of errors.
I am not a Law Enforcement groupie. I have just been around a long time.