Whitehall Wisconsin, or Scumtown as many call it, also Whitehell and Salems Lot by the locals. I grew up there, went to school there, returned home from the Marine Corps there and spent years fighting the police corruption there.
In my prior blogs I have told you about a cop named Daniel J. Wineski that spent over 20 years sexually assaulting teenage girls in Whitehall, how I was asked to help and some of what I did.
Now I want to jump ahead in time a bit and tell you about what happened after his arrest and no contest "Alfred" plea.
A victim called the courthouse on a non related matter and the woman in the courthouse told her people in Whitehall were putting yellow ribbons on trees in support on Wineski. This was not true. What really happened was someone vandalized several cars at a dealership by scratching "BAD DAN WINESKI" in the hoods, and the same was painted on some buildings. But the woman in the courthouse wanted to make the victim feel guilty.
The thing that so many did not understand was the support from the public. After the prosecutor announced that 8 other women were going to testify and even though the local media coverage was glossing this over there were still stories and 5 felonies plus there was a lot of small town talk, and so many in town knew about Wineski before the arrest.
The support was in the form of letters to the judge to take into consideration at the time of Wineski's sentencing. 35 people wrote letters for Wineski. These became public record, which really seemed to anger some of the authors!! But come on people you wrote them and mailed them to a judge to use in court. Of course they are public!!
These names are listed in the comments section of the youtube video, and they will be in my book. So why not write them here too? Since I got into this whole thing I have kind of lived on the question, "What are they going to do? Hate me more." I'm sure that it won't be long before someone on the other side reads this so I figured I better post this one so they know I'm not quite finished yet.
Some of these people I know so I will comment on them. These letters are public record and are kept on file at the Trempealeau County Courthouse in Whitehall Wisconsin.
Wineski's supporters were;
Curtis A. Johnson, president and CEO of the Tri-County memorial Hospital & Nursing Home in Whitehall
W. Bradford Martin M.D. Gunderson Lutheran Clinic in Whitehall
Jeanne Selkert M.D. also a doctor in Whitehall. She made the comment that Wineski had been involved in the girl scout program. (he was a predator, of course he like girl scouts)
Mark R. Franklin local attorney. the same attorney that told me not to go to the FBI and that Wineski had already been investigated twice for sexually assaulting underage girls while on duty.
Anthony J Brickner, this guy was my math teacher in high school. It should be noted that school officials even filed complaints about Wineski hanging around too much. But that was where young girls were so he was too. these complaints were filed years before his arrest.
Marion A. Brickner wife of Anthony
Deborah J. Brickner teacher in Alaska that used to babysit for Wineski's daughters. another of the sitters said Wineski had raped her at gunpoint this one must have been lucky or in the courthouse click that kept her off limits
Carmen M. Brickner, another sitter
Jim Hegge moved out of Whitehall to Rochester MN in 1981
Elizabeth A. Bulman
Olin Fimreite former courthouse employee
Jason John Molis, he owns Holtans Sporting Goods where the cops buy their bullets
Cris and Julie Demulling at one time neighbors to the Wineskis
Scott W. Brown
Jeanne Brown
Siera Brown
David and Dawn Hegge, he used to golf with Wineski
Eugene (Butch) Halama Jr.
Betty Halama
Stacy Sokup, she works in Trempealeau County Housing Authority
Lori Paulson, also works in the Trempealeau County Housing Authority
Ramon E. Kohnert a jailer in trempealeau County
Andrew C. Kohnert, Ramon's kid
Denice Staff, jailer in Trempealeau County
Dale Lyngen and Sonja O. Lyngen parents of former Whitehall cop Dale Lyngen who told investigators he was in the squad car with Wineski when Wineski used binoculars to spy on women and girls undressing through open windows at night. Young Dale was also questioned about his sexual conduct while on duty, and his reason for leaving the department has not been made public
David A. Lyngen deputy for trempealeau County, also the cop that falsely wrote reports and refused to investigate the 1999 burglary of my home outside Whitehall
Brett Semingson, another trempealeau County cop that violated my civil rights years before Wineski's arrest
Daniel E. Wieczorek, I know cops with this name but I'm not sure who this guy is
Bonnie Kindschy works with hospitals ambulance in Whitehall also a coroner. Also one of the 2 that would not allow me or my info pamphlets in the democratic booth when I ran for sheriff in Trempealeau County in 2006. She has a long history in that courthouse and it is not good
Terri Ganselow, another cop
Becky L. Johnson another jailer
Deb Hansen Trempealeau County's domestic violence liaison
I doubt that I will ever understand why some of these people wrote those letters. I know some were questioned by investigators. Wineski lost the support of his wife a few months after his arrest when 2 of her sisters came forward as victims of Wineski
Everything here is a matter of public record.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Parade fliers for serial rapist
I'm not writing this to brag, though I am proud of what I accomplished. This is here as a record, and to help others in similar situations. If you read my other blogs then you know a Whitehall WI cop spent over 20 years stalking the streets of a small Wisconsin searching for victims, and he did so while in uniform and on duty. I am not a cop and that is why I was asked to help stop the situation. It wasn't easy but I have to tell you about how this came about.
I will skip ahead in this story to the summer of 2004. I had spent the last 3 years wasting time talking to the local sheriff, (one Randy Niederkorn) the state of Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) several reporters, lawyers and the civil rights squad of the FBI. It seemed like no one wanted to hear this story let alone get involved. Some showed interest but there was no action taken and I was on my own.
Having sunk everything I had into this and getting nowhere I needed a low budget high impact plan. What I came up with,, got the ball rolling and in 6 months a cop was in jail for the sexual assault of a 14 year old.
This is how it came about;
Wisconsin is a 1 knowledge state. That is, anyone can record a conversation at any time as long as 1 person knows the conversation is being recorded and the recording will not be used for blackmail or extortion. Pretty simple, and this includes conversations with cops.
So in my last 3 years of talking to sheriff Niederkorn and the other cops I had quite the stack of little cassette tapes which were mine and mine to do with as I saw fit, including public airing and giving away copies.
Now I suppose you're wondering what was on these tapes? There was lots of interesting conversations between myself and Niederkorn!! here's some examples; I asked Niederkorn about the night of December 9, 1978 when my brother died and someone (a cop) stole the money from his wallet. His reply, "Back then we had a coroner that was a little evil, I can't remember her name" He then went on to tell me about a suicide in Galesville WI years later when $100 was stolen from the house after the money had been counted on the kitchen table and the only people in the house were 3 cops and a coroner. We talked about missing police reports, falsely written police reports, refusing to respond to burglary calls, refusing to investigate burglaries and of course we talked about a Whitehall cop named Dan Wineski and what we had heard about him forcing young girls to have sex with him. "Terry I've heard all the rumors" he told me. "Aww we can't do anything about that." "You're gonna have to take care of that on your own. I'm not gonna help ya." I had been told by a local lawyer Mark Franklin that Wineski had been investigated twice for sexually assaulting children so I asked Niederkorn. "Yeah, that sounds about right." These are just a few but you should get the point that Niederkorn then the sheriff of Trempealeau County with his office and department located in Whitehall was not going to help. He also told me to cut my losses and quit on more then one occasion.
Well I had these tapes, I had given copies to the FBI and several reporters but Dan Wineski was still a cop. So I picked up a pen and paper and wrote one page. On it I wrote the following;
HI, MY NAME IS TERRY MILES. I'M WORKING TO MAKE TREMPEALEAU COUNTY A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE! DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM OR COMPLAINT ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY? DO YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF MISCONDUCT OR ILLEGAL ACTIVITY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OR COURTHOUSE PERSONNEL?
*ABUSING POWER OR AUTHORITY FOR PERSONAL GAIN (TO GET MONEY, DRUGS, SEX OR MATERIAL GAIN)
*MISAPPROPRIATION OR MISUSE OF MONEY OR PROPERTY
*EXCESSIVE OR UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE
*LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT RESPONDING TO CALLS
*LAW ENFORCEMENT TAKING HOURS OR EVEN DAYS TO ARRIVE AT THE SCENE OF AN INCIDENT
*INTIMIDATION OR THREATENING VICTIMS OR WITNESSES
*REFUSAL TO INVESTIGATE OR TAKE STATEMENTS
*USING DRUGS OR ALCOHOL WHILE WORKING OR ON DUTY
I HAVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND OR FIRST HAND INFORMATION OF ALL THE ABOVE. I WAS A RESIDENT OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY FOR 32 YEARS BEFORE WORK FORCED MY MOVE TO FOND DU LAC COUNTY. I DO PLAN ON RETURNING TO TREMPEALEAU COUNTY ONE DAY.I HAVE FRIENDS THAT HAVE BEEN HURT BY THE CORRUPTION THAT THRIVES IN THE AREA, THAT IS WHY THIS IS MY CONCERN.
CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF ITEMS OR A COMPLAINT OR COMMENT OF ANY KIND ON THE LAW ENFORCEMENT/JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY ON ANY LEVEL. I CAN HELP YOU DIRECT YOUR COMPLAINT AND INFORMATION TO THE PROPER CHANNELS TO BETTER THIS COMMUNITY! YOU CAN REMAIN ANONYMOUS BUT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THIS COUNTY CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE. THIS SOCIETY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. TOGETHER OUR VOICES WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE! THANK YOU!
I CLOSED THIS PAGE WITH MY NAME, ADDRESS, AND PHONE NUMBER
Next I need this printed and I needed lots of copies for what I had in mind. I gave a copy to a friend in Ripon WI. She typed it up for me. I went to a gas station and made 200 copies. one of those went to Whitehall where a friend made 200 more.
On the weekend when Whitehall has it annual celebration "BEEF AND DAIRY DAYS" I drove back home with about 230 copies. Near a dumpster at an apartment complex in Whitehall I picked up a plastic bag with 200 more in it. I was ready!!
The Sunday of Beef and Dairy Days Whitehall has a parade. I knew the city council most likely would not allow me in the parade for my purpose, but there was no law against handing out fliers on the sidewalk. :-) So at 12 noon I stood at the end of the parade route and looked at the 4 blocks I had to cover. I had told the WEAU TV 13 news director what I was up to in case something went bad. Now it was just to do it.
I gave one of those to every person or group of people I met on that sidewalk. After 2 blocks I gave one to Gale Gabriel an old courthouse hand who had been forced to resign in the 70's after he got caught swindling people out of their land. I kept moving but about a block later Gale caught up to me and tried to talk me into stopping which obviously wasn't going to happen. What he did next was so funny I almost stopped for uncontrollable laughter. By this time we were crossing the railroad tracks and ahead at the intersection between Kwik Trip and the Courthouse I could see the cop Dan Wineski directing traffic. Gale in his 70's and standing over 6 feet ran towards Wineski waving the paper over his head Screaming Dan!! Dan!! Look at what Terry Miles is doing!!!! He looked like a child coming home from school with a good report card. A tall grey haired child but the way he waved it and yelled I couldn't help but to laugh which was good because I couldn't talk so I moved faster just handing papers out. I heard Wineski yell back "I already know all about it!!)As I passed Wineski I asked how it was going but he didn't want to talk to me.
The courthouse lawn was covered in spectators, but I made sure every group of people got a flier. Then I cross the street and went back the way I had come passing out fliers. At the end I only had a couple left and the local public access TV cameraman was there filming the parade. He asked what I was doing and I decided to read a flier for him. That was funny too. As I read his face got this OH SHIT look and he started backing up I think so the microphone wouldn't pick up my voice, but I didn't care over 400 fliers were out in the public.
After the parade I walked the route again and look in every garbage can and alley. I found one flier that had been left in the street but I remember giving one to a daughter of a courthouse employee in that spot, so 1 wasted was no big deal.
In the next week I got a few phone calls including one from Sheriff Niederkorn (He was scared) Only one real crazy person called with a wild story about cops hospitals and the VA conspiring to keep him on anti psychotic medication. Everyone else was genuine with stories about Wineski and other local corruption. The mass of response came in person when I returned to Whitehall the next weekend.
As the information poured in I told everyone where to file a complaint, how to contact the agencies and who to ask to speak to. The 7 months following this were a nonstop flow of information, threats and talks. I'll tell you about that some other time. But it was those fliers that ended Wineski's career as a sexual predator
I will skip ahead in this story to the summer of 2004. I had spent the last 3 years wasting time talking to the local sheriff, (one Randy Niederkorn) the state of Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) several reporters, lawyers and the civil rights squad of the FBI. It seemed like no one wanted to hear this story let alone get involved. Some showed interest but there was no action taken and I was on my own.
Having sunk everything I had into this and getting nowhere I needed a low budget high impact plan. What I came up with,, got the ball rolling and in 6 months a cop was in jail for the sexual assault of a 14 year old.
This is how it came about;
Wisconsin is a 1 knowledge state. That is, anyone can record a conversation at any time as long as 1 person knows the conversation is being recorded and the recording will not be used for blackmail or extortion. Pretty simple, and this includes conversations with cops.
So in my last 3 years of talking to sheriff Niederkorn and the other cops I had quite the stack of little cassette tapes which were mine and mine to do with as I saw fit, including public airing and giving away copies.
Now I suppose you're wondering what was on these tapes? There was lots of interesting conversations between myself and Niederkorn!! here's some examples; I asked Niederkorn about the night of December 9, 1978 when my brother died and someone (a cop) stole the money from his wallet. His reply, "Back then we had a coroner that was a little evil, I can't remember her name" He then went on to tell me about a suicide in Galesville WI years later when $100 was stolen from the house after the money had been counted on the kitchen table and the only people in the house were 3 cops and a coroner. We talked about missing police reports, falsely written police reports, refusing to respond to burglary calls, refusing to investigate burglaries and of course we talked about a Whitehall cop named Dan Wineski and what we had heard about him forcing young girls to have sex with him. "Terry I've heard all the rumors" he told me. "Aww we can't do anything about that." "You're gonna have to take care of that on your own. I'm not gonna help ya." I had been told by a local lawyer Mark Franklin that Wineski had been investigated twice for sexually assaulting children so I asked Niederkorn. "Yeah, that sounds about right." These are just a few but you should get the point that Niederkorn then the sheriff of Trempealeau County with his office and department located in Whitehall was not going to help. He also told me to cut my losses and quit on more then one occasion.
Well I had these tapes, I had given copies to the FBI and several reporters but Dan Wineski was still a cop. So I picked up a pen and paper and wrote one page. On it I wrote the following;
HI, MY NAME IS TERRY MILES. I'M WORKING TO MAKE TREMPEALEAU COUNTY A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE! DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM OR COMPLAINT ABOUT LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY? DO YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF MISCONDUCT OR ILLEGAL ACTIVITY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OR COURTHOUSE PERSONNEL?
*ABUSING POWER OR AUTHORITY FOR PERSONAL GAIN (TO GET MONEY, DRUGS, SEX OR MATERIAL GAIN)
*MISAPPROPRIATION OR MISUSE OF MONEY OR PROPERTY
*EXCESSIVE OR UNNECESSARY USE OF FORCE
*LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT RESPONDING TO CALLS
*LAW ENFORCEMENT TAKING HOURS OR EVEN DAYS TO ARRIVE AT THE SCENE OF AN INCIDENT
*INTIMIDATION OR THREATENING VICTIMS OR WITNESSES
*REFUSAL TO INVESTIGATE OR TAKE STATEMENTS
*USING DRUGS OR ALCOHOL WHILE WORKING OR ON DUTY
I HAVE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND OR FIRST HAND INFORMATION OF ALL THE ABOVE. I WAS A RESIDENT OF TREMPEALEAU COUNTY FOR 32 YEARS BEFORE WORK FORCED MY MOVE TO FOND DU LAC COUNTY. I DO PLAN ON RETURNING TO TREMPEALEAU COUNTY ONE DAY.I HAVE FRIENDS THAT HAVE BEEN HURT BY THE CORRUPTION THAT THRIVES IN THE AREA, THAT IS WHY THIS IS MY CONCERN.
CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF ITEMS OR A COMPLAINT OR COMMENT OF ANY KIND ON THE LAW ENFORCEMENT/JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN TREMPEALEAU COUNTY ON ANY LEVEL. I CAN HELP YOU DIRECT YOUR COMPLAINT AND INFORMATION TO THE PROPER CHANNELS TO BETTER THIS COMMUNITY! YOU CAN REMAIN ANONYMOUS BUT WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THIS COUNTY CAN NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE. THIS SOCIETY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY. TOGETHER OUR VOICES WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE! THANK YOU!
I CLOSED THIS PAGE WITH MY NAME, ADDRESS, AND PHONE NUMBER
Next I need this printed and I needed lots of copies for what I had in mind. I gave a copy to a friend in Ripon WI. She typed it up for me. I went to a gas station and made 200 copies. one of those went to Whitehall where a friend made 200 more.
On the weekend when Whitehall has it annual celebration "BEEF AND DAIRY DAYS" I drove back home with about 230 copies. Near a dumpster at an apartment complex in Whitehall I picked up a plastic bag with 200 more in it. I was ready!!
The Sunday of Beef and Dairy Days Whitehall has a parade. I knew the city council most likely would not allow me in the parade for my purpose, but there was no law against handing out fliers on the sidewalk. :-) So at 12 noon I stood at the end of the parade route and looked at the 4 blocks I had to cover. I had told the WEAU TV 13 news director what I was up to in case something went bad. Now it was just to do it.
I gave one of those to every person or group of people I met on that sidewalk. After 2 blocks I gave one to Gale Gabriel an old courthouse hand who had been forced to resign in the 70's after he got caught swindling people out of their land. I kept moving but about a block later Gale caught up to me and tried to talk me into stopping which obviously wasn't going to happen. What he did next was so funny I almost stopped for uncontrollable laughter. By this time we were crossing the railroad tracks and ahead at the intersection between Kwik Trip and the Courthouse I could see the cop Dan Wineski directing traffic. Gale in his 70's and standing over 6 feet ran towards Wineski waving the paper over his head Screaming Dan!! Dan!! Look at what Terry Miles is doing!!!! He looked like a child coming home from school with a good report card. A tall grey haired child but the way he waved it and yelled I couldn't help but to laugh which was good because I couldn't talk so I moved faster just handing papers out. I heard Wineski yell back "I already know all about it!!)As I passed Wineski I asked how it was going but he didn't want to talk to me.
The courthouse lawn was covered in spectators, but I made sure every group of people got a flier. Then I cross the street and went back the way I had come passing out fliers. At the end I only had a couple left and the local public access TV cameraman was there filming the parade. He asked what I was doing and I decided to read a flier for him. That was funny too. As I read his face got this OH SHIT look and he started backing up I think so the microphone wouldn't pick up my voice, but I didn't care over 400 fliers were out in the public.
After the parade I walked the route again and look in every garbage can and alley. I found one flier that had been left in the street but I remember giving one to a daughter of a courthouse employee in that spot, so 1 wasted was no big deal.
In the next week I got a few phone calls including one from Sheriff Niederkorn (He was scared) Only one real crazy person called with a wild story about cops hospitals and the VA conspiring to keep him on anti psychotic medication. Everyone else was genuine with stories about Wineski and other local corruption. The mass of response came in person when I returned to Whitehall the next weekend.
As the information poured in I told everyone where to file a complaint, how to contact the agencies and who to ask to speak to. The 7 months following this were a nonstop flow of information, threats and talks. I'll tell you about that some other time. But it was those fliers that ended Wineski's career as a sexual predator
Saturday, January 30, 2010
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
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
Friday, January 29, 2010
Dan Wineski cop masturbating in public
I want to set the record straight on this.
A little more information on Dan Wineski that is a public record but wasn't covered by mainstream media. The first thing that comes to mind is his masturbating in the Whitehall Kwik Trip. That was not an incident but two separate incidents. I had heard about the one where he had been on surveillance in the store and was caught masturbating in a closet that occurred in 1996. The other was in 1988 and he had cornered a store clerk in the candy aisle exposed himself and began to masturbate in front of her. These 2 separate cases caused confusion while I was giving information to the FBI and DCI. In 2003 I had talked to then sheriff Niederkorn about this at his house after he invited me to "peace negotiations" I had a recorder hidden in my shirt because I knew he would later deny the meeting ever took place as well as everything he said there.
So anyway, the story I had heard was that the store had some cash missing and the police were called to investigate as they thought one of the employees were stealing from the cash register. Kwik Trips (most of them) have small closets with 2 way mirrors so someone can hide and observe the store. These are in small closed rooms so even employees don't know when someone is watching. Wineski was in one of these closets standing on a box (he's only just over 5 feet tall) to see through the mirrored window with his pants around his ankles and his penis in his hand watching girls when another cop taking over his shift walked in on him. In most places, that would have been the end of Wineski's career. But this wasn't the first time or the most public masturbation Wineski had done.
But I asked Niederkorn about this with the recorder rolling and Joe Taylor sitting at Niederkorn's kitchen table between us, and Niederkorn not only admitted to knowing this story but to telling it to the Przybilla family during the investigation of the murder of Aloyzie Przybilla. I learned of this from the Przybilla family. Niederkorn had went to meet with Aloyzie's sons to discuss the murder investigation. Before he started to tell them about the case he sat at the kitchen table and told them about Wineski masturbating in Kwik Trip!!
As information came to me during my investigation I got pieces of both stories and tried to relay these to the FBI and DCI but the stories weren't matching up until I realized that there were 2 separate incidents.
The other incident happened in 1988, (the same year they threatened to plant cocaine in my car for trying to stop the Wineski assaults.)Wineski liked a girl working at the Kwik trip. So he just cornered her in the candy aisle and exposed himself and began to masturbate in front of her while he was on duty and in uniform. If this was not bad enough the girl was dating a cop and told him and other cops about what Wineski had done. Trempealeau County deputy Paul Loesel not only knew about his but waited until the day of Wineski's sentencing to come forward and tell the DCI that he knew and the name of the girl. Had Loesel or any of the other cops taken some action in 1988 hundreds of sexual assaults would have been prevented. Loesel still works for the Trempealeau County sheriff's department!!
There was a third public masturbation incident. After sexually assaulting a 14 year old Wineski was in her yard watching her and another 14 year old through a window. He was standing in her yard masturbating as he watched the 2 girls. That's all I can say about this one without compromising the girls privacy but you should be getting the picture. Wineski had no fear of getting caught. And why should he? If the police chief Larry Estenson would even hear the complaint his response would be "That's Dan" if the complainant was lucky, if not Estenson may have arrested them on fake charges to teach them a lesson about filing complaints.
These are public records and I do not understand why the media did not cover this story better. The FOX video I have posted in my blog was the only mention of any of WIneski's public masturbation's. There may have been more then these 3, the DCI only released 472 pages of it's investigation. I believe that they are withholding at least another 800 pages.
That concludes this section of my blog. But don't worry there's still a lot to write about, I'm a long way from being done.
A little more information on Dan Wineski that is a public record but wasn't covered by mainstream media. The first thing that comes to mind is his masturbating in the Whitehall Kwik Trip. That was not an incident but two separate incidents. I had heard about the one where he had been on surveillance in the store and was caught masturbating in a closet that occurred in 1996. The other was in 1988 and he had cornered a store clerk in the candy aisle exposed himself and began to masturbate in front of her. These 2 separate cases caused confusion while I was giving information to the FBI and DCI. In 2003 I had talked to then sheriff Niederkorn about this at his house after he invited me to "peace negotiations" I had a recorder hidden in my shirt because I knew he would later deny the meeting ever took place as well as everything he said there.
So anyway, the story I had heard was that the store had some cash missing and the police were called to investigate as they thought one of the employees were stealing from the cash register. Kwik Trips (most of them) have small closets with 2 way mirrors so someone can hide and observe the store. These are in small closed rooms so even employees don't know when someone is watching. Wineski was in one of these closets standing on a box (he's only just over 5 feet tall) to see through the mirrored window with his pants around his ankles and his penis in his hand watching girls when another cop taking over his shift walked in on him. In most places, that would have been the end of Wineski's career. But this wasn't the first time or the most public masturbation Wineski had done.
But I asked Niederkorn about this with the recorder rolling and Joe Taylor sitting at Niederkorn's kitchen table between us, and Niederkorn not only admitted to knowing this story but to telling it to the Przybilla family during the investigation of the murder of Aloyzie Przybilla. I learned of this from the Przybilla family. Niederkorn had went to meet with Aloyzie's sons to discuss the murder investigation. Before he started to tell them about the case he sat at the kitchen table and told them about Wineski masturbating in Kwik Trip!!
As information came to me during my investigation I got pieces of both stories and tried to relay these to the FBI and DCI but the stories weren't matching up until I realized that there were 2 separate incidents.
The other incident happened in 1988, (the same year they threatened to plant cocaine in my car for trying to stop the Wineski assaults.)Wineski liked a girl working at the Kwik trip. So he just cornered her in the candy aisle and exposed himself and began to masturbate in front of her while he was on duty and in uniform. If this was not bad enough the girl was dating a cop and told him and other cops about what Wineski had done. Trempealeau County deputy Paul Loesel not only knew about his but waited until the day of Wineski's sentencing to come forward and tell the DCI that he knew and the name of the girl. Had Loesel or any of the other cops taken some action in 1988 hundreds of sexual assaults would have been prevented. Loesel still works for the Trempealeau County sheriff's department!!
There was a third public masturbation incident. After sexually assaulting a 14 year old Wineski was in her yard watching her and another 14 year old through a window. He was standing in her yard masturbating as he watched the 2 girls. That's all I can say about this one without compromising the girls privacy but you should be getting the picture. Wineski had no fear of getting caught. And why should he? If the police chief Larry Estenson would even hear the complaint his response would be "That's Dan" if the complainant was lucky, if not Estenson may have arrested them on fake charges to teach them a lesson about filing complaints.
These are public records and I do not understand why the media did not cover this story better. The FOX video I have posted in my blog was the only mention of any of WIneski's public masturbation's. There may have been more then these 3, the DCI only released 472 pages of it's investigation. I believe that they are withholding at least another 800 pages.
That concludes this section of my blog. But don't worry there's still a lot to write about, I'm a long way from being done.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
More on Trempealeau County
If you read my first blog and watched the videos then you can see how big the problems in Trempealeau County are, not were, ARE. There's still lot there that is just not right and it will take a long time to tell the story. It wasn't just the Wineski assaults or the slap in the face of the 5 years he served in prison for what may easily be 300 to 400 sexual assault victims.
There are other legal atrocities committed in that county and complaints to the state and federal authorities were ignored. These came to my attention while I was working to stop Wineski.
While there were hundreds of cases of police misconduct in Trempealeau County, some came to my attention with enough detail that I can include them here. Once I've told you about a few of the other things going on in Trempealeau County I will get back to the Dan Wineski story. But these deserve a mention because similar cases in the United States, while lesser in degree and nature have caused national outrage and investigations these have passed relatively quietly due to a wall of silence created by the courthouse. (In these blogs when I use the term courthouse I an referring to the Trempealeau County courthouse and all the departments within it. They function as a unit, as one. Each covering the tracks of the other in the good ole boy network that is the "courthouse"
Steve Peplinski owned a bowling alley Galesville Wisconsin. After receiving a ticket for having an underage person in his establishment, (which he did but legally as an employee) Peplinski began preparing his defense to fight the ticket. He went to city hall and asked for a few things, public records, who was on the law enforcement committee? A copy of a police report, and worst of all he asked questions about the city budget!! In response he was denied his requests and the city not only started a harassment campaign against Peplinski. This led to further requests, and further harassment. The city of Galesville actually passed a city resolution/law making it illegal for Peplinski to attend public meetings, ask for public records and set foot on public property. Years later this was overturned as unconstitutional. The Peplinski is still ongoing and years long but this part is well known to me and heavily documented so I can safely post it here. In case you are wondering? Of course Peplinski went to the county and the state with complaints about the city of Galesville, and that is another reason his story is important here.
Peplinski's complaints to the county went to then Sheriff Randall "Randy" Niederkorn. (The same Niederkorn that handled my complaints in my case and told me that he would not do anything about the Wineski assaults and that I would have to take care of that myself.) Niederkorn did his usual job of ignoring the complaints and Peplinski's public record requests. That brought Peplinski to to filing complaints with the state of Wisconsin. Those complaints went to the desk of David Collins then Administrator of the DCI (Division of Criminal Investigation)who disposed of Peplinski's complaints. What most people don't know is that Collins got his start in law enforcement in the Trempealeau County sheriff's department and served with many of the cops still working in the county. Collins is also the brother of Terry Collins the Mayor of Galesville. This good ole boy network had protection at the state level. That is part of how Dan Wineski got away with hundreds of sexual assaults over a 24 year period.
The Przybilla family met the same problems after the murder of Aloyzie Przybilla on April 2 or 3, 1997. The Trempealeau County sheriff's department ignored the victims family in the house saying I think that looks like blood and that's a shell casing. Aloyzie's body was moved 3 times before anyone noticed the bullet hole in his chest. Then investigator Randy Niederkorn told Allen Przybilla to leave that part out of his statement. The Przybilla family then took their complaints of police misconduct to the state. Again these complaints were given to David Collins. In the end no one was ever convicted of the murder and it remains an open case today. The prosecutor assistant attorney general Don Latorrica could only get burglary convictions. It is worthy to note that Latorrica is the same prosecutor that handled the Wineski case and while he did get a conviction there Wineski was originally looking at 33 years and Latorrica made a plea bargain with Wineski bringing that down to 7 years of which he only served 5 despite the fact that at least 8 other victims were willing to testify and hundreds of victims and witnesses were interviewed by the DCI. I fully believe that if the Wineski case had actually went to trial there would have been evidence of the state's part in the cover up of the Wineski assaults and the attorney generals office simply could not have that happen.
Aloyzie was murdered during a home robbery but no large amounts of money were found, nor any evidence the perpetrators of the burglary had gotten any. However many people of Aloyzie's age who lived through the great depression of the 1930's did not keep money in banks. If he did have a quantity of cash in his house and the robbers/killers did not get it and the Przybilla family did not get it,,, there are only 2 options left. Either it was never found or the cops got it. As I may write of this again it is also noteworthy here that Allen Przybilla made a public record request for a copy the 911 he made when he learned of his fathers death. That request went to Niederkorn who took 6 years to produce a copy of the tape. Allen swears it is a forgery. I have listened to it and believe it is the product of 2 separate 911 calls pieced together. The first words spoken are asking when are you going to get here. The 1st call was not responded to so a 2nd was made. The conversation on that tape is out of order. It's obvious that there is something on the original that the cops want to keep secret. Trempealeau county cops do have a reputation for stealing from the dead.
I only briefly touched on these 2 cases, there is a lot more detail in each of them that shows how the victims stood their ground while the courthouse violated laws, ethics and morals codes to keep their crimes and conduct secret.
Moving along,, other complaints going to the Trempealeau County sheriff's department would have either been handled then Chief Deputy Dan Schreiner or Michael Wineski. Schreiner was best of friends with Collins who traveled to Whitehall for Schreiner retirement party (that happened after the Wineski arrest and people began to see the truth) and Michael Wineski was also investigated for the sexual assault of children while on duty and was forced to retire after another police officer filed a complaint of sexual assault against Wineski. He was also Dan Wineski's brother.
Now you may be starting to see the real problem. But I am going to give you some more so you can grasp the deapth of the problem. During Dan Wineski's 24 year career as a sexual predator hiding behind a badge and with a courthouse to protect him his boss was Whitehall Police Chief Larry Estenson. That position was appointed by the city council NOT elected. Had there been an election Larry Estenson would have been outed decades ago. When questioned by the DCI Estenson did admit to hearing what he called "rumors" about Dan Wineski going back to the early 1980's (when a crying teenager comes to the chief of police and says she wants to file a complaint about the cop that raped her the night before. IT'S NOT A FUCKING RUMOR!!!!) That is not even the point of this story Larry Estenson's son Dave Estenson also got a job in law enforcement and just starting out was only working part time in the small town of Strum Wisconsin (in Trempealeau County)a bar in that town had a very pretty bartender so Dave decided he could use threats of tickets and charges, even threatening to have the bar's liquor license revoked if she did not have sex with him. She wa smarter then that told him no. But the point is that he did this in the narrow window of time between Dan Wineski's plea hearing and sentencing. the arrest of Dan Wineski had no effect on the other cops committing sexual assaults in Trempealeau County. I gave this girls name and complaint to the DCI, she later gave the complaint herself. The DCI did nothing.
The way to fix this problem is to clean out the courthouse and the DCI as well as the attorney general's office and get new people in there that will do their job and not cover up for some lowlife just because he went to school for a year and got a job with a badge and a gun.
A couple other miscellaneous notes that came up in my Wineski investigation that I want my readers to be aware of all happened in Trempealeau County. Near the town of Elk Creek a farmers cows got through the fence. Then deputy Steve Jelen decided that they were too close to the road and proceeded to shoot 7 of them.
Another.,, While golfing at the course in Arcadia Randy Niederkorn, Michael Wineski and another un-named cop decided it would be fun to try and hit the neighboring farmer's barn and cattle with golf balls. When the farmer saw what was going on and walked across his field to confront the 3 drunks they decided the best course of action would be attack and beat him. These 2 did not make the news, but were kept out of the local media. Both happened in the 1990's.
With this blog I have brought you a little insight on Trempealeau County. I will add more of this in the future, but for now I'll take a short break and in my next blog I will add more on the Dan Wineski case.
Thanks for reading, I hope you pass this along
There are other legal atrocities committed in that county and complaints to the state and federal authorities were ignored. These came to my attention while I was working to stop Wineski.
While there were hundreds of cases of police misconduct in Trempealeau County, some came to my attention with enough detail that I can include them here. Once I've told you about a few of the other things going on in Trempealeau County I will get back to the Dan Wineski story. But these deserve a mention because similar cases in the United States, while lesser in degree and nature have caused national outrage and investigations these have passed relatively quietly due to a wall of silence created by the courthouse. (In these blogs when I use the term courthouse I an referring to the Trempealeau County courthouse and all the departments within it. They function as a unit, as one. Each covering the tracks of the other in the good ole boy network that is the "courthouse"
Steve Peplinski owned a bowling alley Galesville Wisconsin. After receiving a ticket for having an underage person in his establishment, (which he did but legally as an employee) Peplinski began preparing his defense to fight the ticket. He went to city hall and asked for a few things, public records, who was on the law enforcement committee? A copy of a police report, and worst of all he asked questions about the city budget!! In response he was denied his requests and the city not only started a harassment campaign against Peplinski. This led to further requests, and further harassment. The city of Galesville actually passed a city resolution/law making it illegal for Peplinski to attend public meetings, ask for public records and set foot on public property. Years later this was overturned as unconstitutional. The Peplinski is still ongoing and years long but this part is well known to me and heavily documented so I can safely post it here. In case you are wondering? Of course Peplinski went to the county and the state with complaints about the city of Galesville, and that is another reason his story is important here.
Peplinski's complaints to the county went to then Sheriff Randall "Randy" Niederkorn. (The same Niederkorn that handled my complaints in my case and told me that he would not do anything about the Wineski assaults and that I would have to take care of that myself.) Niederkorn did his usual job of ignoring the complaints and Peplinski's public record requests. That brought Peplinski to to filing complaints with the state of Wisconsin. Those complaints went to the desk of David Collins then Administrator of the DCI (Division of Criminal Investigation)who disposed of Peplinski's complaints. What most people don't know is that Collins got his start in law enforcement in the Trempealeau County sheriff's department and served with many of the cops still working in the county. Collins is also the brother of Terry Collins the Mayor of Galesville. This good ole boy network had protection at the state level. That is part of how Dan Wineski got away with hundreds of sexual assaults over a 24 year period.
The Przybilla family met the same problems after the murder of Aloyzie Przybilla on April 2 or 3, 1997. The Trempealeau County sheriff's department ignored the victims family in the house saying I think that looks like blood and that's a shell casing. Aloyzie's body was moved 3 times before anyone noticed the bullet hole in his chest. Then investigator Randy Niederkorn told Allen Przybilla to leave that part out of his statement. The Przybilla family then took their complaints of police misconduct to the state. Again these complaints were given to David Collins. In the end no one was ever convicted of the murder and it remains an open case today. The prosecutor assistant attorney general Don Latorrica could only get burglary convictions. It is worthy to note that Latorrica is the same prosecutor that handled the Wineski case and while he did get a conviction there Wineski was originally looking at 33 years and Latorrica made a plea bargain with Wineski bringing that down to 7 years of which he only served 5 despite the fact that at least 8 other victims were willing to testify and hundreds of victims and witnesses were interviewed by the DCI. I fully believe that if the Wineski case had actually went to trial there would have been evidence of the state's part in the cover up of the Wineski assaults and the attorney generals office simply could not have that happen.
Aloyzie was murdered during a home robbery but no large amounts of money were found, nor any evidence the perpetrators of the burglary had gotten any. However many people of Aloyzie's age who lived through the great depression of the 1930's did not keep money in banks. If he did have a quantity of cash in his house and the robbers/killers did not get it and the Przybilla family did not get it,,, there are only 2 options left. Either it was never found or the cops got it. As I may write of this again it is also noteworthy here that Allen Przybilla made a public record request for a copy the 911 he made when he learned of his fathers death. That request went to Niederkorn who took 6 years to produce a copy of the tape. Allen swears it is a forgery. I have listened to it and believe it is the product of 2 separate 911 calls pieced together. The first words spoken are asking when are you going to get here. The 1st call was not responded to so a 2nd was made. The conversation on that tape is out of order. It's obvious that there is something on the original that the cops want to keep secret. Trempealeau county cops do have a reputation for stealing from the dead.
I only briefly touched on these 2 cases, there is a lot more detail in each of them that shows how the victims stood their ground while the courthouse violated laws, ethics and morals codes to keep their crimes and conduct secret.
Moving along,, other complaints going to the Trempealeau County sheriff's department would have either been handled then Chief Deputy Dan Schreiner or Michael Wineski. Schreiner was best of friends with Collins who traveled to Whitehall for Schreiner retirement party (that happened after the Wineski arrest and people began to see the truth) and Michael Wineski was also investigated for the sexual assault of children while on duty and was forced to retire after another police officer filed a complaint of sexual assault against Wineski. He was also Dan Wineski's brother.
Now you may be starting to see the real problem. But I am going to give you some more so you can grasp the deapth of the problem. During Dan Wineski's 24 year career as a sexual predator hiding behind a badge and with a courthouse to protect him his boss was Whitehall Police Chief Larry Estenson. That position was appointed by the city council NOT elected. Had there been an election Larry Estenson would have been outed decades ago. When questioned by the DCI Estenson did admit to hearing what he called "rumors" about Dan Wineski going back to the early 1980's (when a crying teenager comes to the chief of police and says she wants to file a complaint about the cop that raped her the night before. IT'S NOT A FUCKING RUMOR!!!!) That is not even the point of this story Larry Estenson's son Dave Estenson also got a job in law enforcement and just starting out was only working part time in the small town of Strum Wisconsin (in Trempealeau County)a bar in that town had a very pretty bartender so Dave decided he could use threats of tickets and charges, even threatening to have the bar's liquor license revoked if she did not have sex with him. She wa smarter then that told him no. But the point is that he did this in the narrow window of time between Dan Wineski's plea hearing and sentencing. the arrest of Dan Wineski had no effect on the other cops committing sexual assaults in Trempealeau County. I gave this girls name and complaint to the DCI, she later gave the complaint herself. The DCI did nothing.
The way to fix this problem is to clean out the courthouse and the DCI as well as the attorney general's office and get new people in there that will do their job and not cover up for some lowlife just because he went to school for a year and got a job with a badge and a gun.
A couple other miscellaneous notes that came up in my Wineski investigation that I want my readers to be aware of all happened in Trempealeau County. Near the town of Elk Creek a farmers cows got through the fence. Then deputy Steve Jelen decided that they were too close to the road and proceeded to shoot 7 of them.
Another.,, While golfing at the course in Arcadia Randy Niederkorn, Michael Wineski and another un-named cop decided it would be fun to try and hit the neighboring farmer's barn and cattle with golf balls. When the farmer saw what was going on and walked across his field to confront the 3 drunks they decided the best course of action would be attack and beat him. These 2 did not make the news, but were kept out of the local media. Both happened in the 1990's.
With this blog I have brought you a little insight on Trempealeau County. I will add more of this in the future, but for now I'll take a short break and in my next blog I will add more on the Dan Wineski case.
Thanks for reading, I hope you pass this along
the Wineski video
I'm not sure this will work. But this is one of the videos I mentioned in my first post
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