Murder Incorperated

This blog will be about 6 deaths, all either murder or suspicious and one shooting. 3shot by cops, 1 shot during a home burglary, 2 died in a suspicious fire and one alleged suicide.

I'll begin with the alleged suicide because that is the oldest case and I have the least information on this one. Now if you read my other blogs or watched the videos you know that Dan Wineski was a cop in Whitehall Wisconsin who spent 24 not so much being a police officer but being a sexual predator while on duty as a police officer. It is true that Wineski's favorite victims were young blonde's. He seemed to target 14 to 16 year old girls the most. But Wineski also had a reputation for stalking victims at the Whitehall hospital. Perhaps it was the nurses uniforms? But most likely it was the fact that there were women there late at night without witnesses to what he was doing.

Back in the early 1980's one nurse from Whitehall. Decided to drive 40 miles to Eau Claire, park on the interstate and shoot herself in the head. While this may be true it goes against the all the patterns of female suicide. They usually do it at home, almost never violently and they don't destroy parts of their face or head. Going back to when I first heard of this I always thought that she was silenced because of something she knew or tried to report. Take this as you will, it's hearsay and part my speculation, but the fact remains that a Whitehall Nurse died of a gunshot to the head in Eau Claire. I don't believe this "official story" for 2 reasons, it don't add up and it was too quiet of a story. I heard it around town from several people, but there was a lot,, too many people that never heard of a dead nurse and in a small town, that's not right.

The next one to discuss is far better documented, and I read the police report and autopsy. Darrel Robinson worked for the carnival, and that carnival came to Trempealeau County to the small city of Arcadia where Robinson was killed by one shotgun blast to the chest by deputy Stephen Jelen. (The same Jelen that shot 7 dairy cows because he thought they were too close to the road)

May 25, 1994 Darrel Robinson was working his job at the festival and being a black man in the almost all white community he drew attention. A group of young girls passed him and made some racial slurs. Robinson was tired of the harassment and some angry words passed. Following that he acquired a stop sign post and broke a few car windows before entering a store. The cops had been called and Jelen was one of them that showed up. Jelen claims Robinson was charging him with the post and he had to fire his 12 gauge shotgun in self defense. I read the police report. The cops went back 20 years to try and find some dirt on Robinson. What they found was a nice guy that hated hard drugs, drank very little, believed in God and did his job. What I don't understand from the autopsy is that if he was charging? Why did the buckshot enter his body through his right arm and pass through that into his chest. He was sideways to Jelen holding a stop sign post, a metal pipe several feet long. Rather or not he was right of left handed is not specified. But either way I have a hard time picturing this in my head. He was charging sideways or turned at the last second. He hadn't hurt anyone and with his size 72" +210 lbs I think he could have.

The shooting of Steve Burch is actually what I see as a 2 part story ending with the deaths of Chad Corcoran and John Weiczorek. Burch was stopped at a road block in Independence WI after somewhat of a chase, a low speed chase. Burch's airbag deployed when he tried to drive around the road block. He took a very small knife and was cutting the airbag when Trempealeau County John Wweiczorek walked up to the car and shot him through the closed drivers side window. Burch lived, but what happened after is even more interesting. (I do have the date of the Burch shooting but it's not important for this blog)

In 2001 I began my crusade to put away the serial rapist cop Dan Wineski. In giving information to state and federal authorities I of course included everything, including the Burch shooting. About a year later Weiczorek turned up dead at a house party.

The sheriff's department would not give me the police reports on this one so what I have is hearsay and from the newspaper. The news coverage was minimal at best and the investigation was kept quiet and quite short.

On the weekend of June 8, 2002 several cops were having a party at a house in Ettrick Wisconsin. After that there are 2 versions of the story. One that they all went to the bar and Weiczorek returned to the house and went to the basement to sleep. Chad Corcoran also went to the basement to sleep at some point in time. Around 5:00 AM the 3 people upstairs didn't know anyone else was in the house, noticed it was on fire and escaped without injury. The other version is the same except they didn't go to the bar. Faulty wiring was blamed, I heard it started in a sauna in the basement but never saw that in print. I also heard that there was more then 5 people in that house.

What I do know is that Corcoran's father had been a cop in Trempealeau County and that he was reputed to be as corrupt as the the others. (Read my prior blogs on Trempealeau County) But his son was nothing like his dad. I also know that Weiczorek had a reputation as a very good cop. It's too strange that what may be the only 2 honest people with knowledge of the doings of that courthouse die in a suspicious fire a year after one of them is reported for an illegal shooting.

I did find a witness to the Burch shooting who described to me that Weiczorek walked up to the car with a nightstick in his left hand and a pistol in his right and shot Burch through the closed window. I think he got nervous and gripped the gun too tight squeezing the trigger by accident and thus shot Burch. He wasn't aiming the gun, he was holding it waist level. This witness did approach the officers but was told no statement was needed and to leave the area. There are other discrepancies between the police and witness statement in the Burch shooting as well. I believe that Burch was shot by accident and the other two killed by cops that had secrets to keep. (On that note I should add that about this same time 2 Trempealeau County deputies quit their job after 12 and 18 years with the department, both also had decent reputations as good cops. This was just over a year into the Wineski sexual assaults investigation.

In July 2003 Michael Crispin was shot and killed by Trempealeau County sheriff's deputy david "Scotty" Gibbons. The following link is transcripts of the shooting taken from a squad car camera. If you read that the cops took the time to position themselves to shoot him without putting them selves in a crossfire. 4 shots were fired from a .40 caliber pistol. 3 hit one in the abdomen one in the torso and one to the head. It don't say in which order the shots were fired, but at 6 feet anyone should have put him down.



THis link is also to the Crispin shooting



What was not covered by the media is that after Crispin was killed the Trempealeau County sheriff's department broke their contract with the local funeral home and used a retired deputy named Dan Schreiner to transport the body to Madison WI for the autopsy. Now why would they do that. It also needs to be noted that Schreiner was involved in the cover up of the 1999 burglary of my house outside Whitehall and several other acts of misconduct. The DCI did investigate his transportation of Crispin's body but those records were not released to me.

The way I see it. They used Schreiner to move that body because they had something to hide.

Dan Wineski while a Whitehall police officer while only prosecuted for the 1996 sexual assault of one 14 year old girl faced allegations of hundreds more. In some of these he used his gun. Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) records released are few but one baby sitter for the Wineski's stated that he had grabbed the gun when she woke him up and then held it on her as he forced her to perform oral sex. Another stated that when she tried to report the incident Wineski had forced her to hold his gun to her head as he told her he would kill her if she ever told anyone. Not in the records is a statement that Wineski had put his police pistol in the crotch of a 14 year old and told her that she would not die quick if he pulled the trigger but if she talked he would come back and find out how long it would take.

There is also a story I grew up hearing from the 70's about a then detective that was called to a bar because of a suspicious briefcase in the parking lot full of bags of white powder and no reports were filed and the farmer that found the briefcase fell down a flight of stairs at his home and broke his neck. But that story is roughly 30 years old and first hand info is hard to find. However I have been hearing that same story without deviation for about 30 years, so I mentioned it here

This was life and death in Trempealeau County Wisconsin