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The new victim of re-offending paroled rapist Kenneth Moffett, of Appleton, is courageously speaking out because she wants to help other victims so other people do not suffer the same trauma. Anna Baxter reached out to Wisconsin Right Now on Tuesday and described the horrific attack she endured from parolee Kenneth Moffett this September, periodically breaking down in tears as she called on the system to treat rapists more harshly and keep them in prison. She shared photos of her injuries. [caption id="attachment_91776" align="alignleft" width="217"] Kenneth Moffett[/caption] Kenneth Moffett, 58 was charged on September 23, 2022, with the strangulation and suffocation of Baxter, and one count of false imprisonment, both felonies, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Wisconsin Right Now from Outagamie County. The crime is almost a mirror image of the rape he was convicted of in 1998. The Appleton man was paroled this June by Gov. Tony Eve...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. Brian Moeller was one of them. His release was discretionary. 60th in the series . Brian Moeller murdered his own mother by strangling her and beating her with a baseball bat to death. According to the Daily Tribune, in 1988, in Wood County, Moeller was convicted of murdering his mother, Shirley Moeller. He was 18 when convicted but 17 at the time of the crime. Evers' Parole Commission Freed Brian Moeller Early [caption id="attachment_92974" align="alignleft" width="300"] Brian Moeller[/caption] Date paroled:   [You can look up Brian Moeller's parole here . Put his name in the database and click "movement."] Current Residence: Milwaukee, WI Age: 52 Convicted: Fi...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. Todd Brecht was one of them. His release was discretionary. 59th in the series . Todd Brecht murdered Buffalo County District Attorney Roger Hartman by shooting him in the back. Today Brecht is 63. The District Attorney Roger Hartman was shot in the back and died a month later from his wounds, according to a 1986 article in the La Crosse Tribune. Brecht is the brother of Hartman’s wife, Marlene, also called Molly. He was staying in the couple's Wisconsin home because they were trying to help him get his life back together after he got into trouble with the law in Georgia. Evers' Parole Commission Paroled Todd Brecht Early [caption id="attachment_92850" align="alignleft" width=...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. Dustin Sachsenmaier is a registered sex offender who was released early from prison through the state's earned release program, even though local police stressed his dangerousness. 58th in the series . Before Dustin Sachsenmaier, a registered sex offender, was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison in 2018, Cornell Police Chief Brian Hurt did something he had never done in 30 years. He decided to address a court at sentencing to underscore how dangerous and violent he believes Sachsenmaier is. “I’ve worked in law enforcement for 30 years. During this time, I’ve never addressed the court on any criminal case I’ve been involved in. I will make that exception for Dustin Sachsenmaier,” Hurt told the judge, according to an article ...

Note: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's David Haynes refused to run this column. We believe this murder victim's sister deserves a voice, so we agreed to run her column. The news media have repeatedly censored the voices of murder victims' families when covering the parole issue. Author: Jeanine Peters (Sister of Kathleen Beletsky) It’s been a long time since 1983, but the year we lost my sister was, and I suspect will always be, the worst year of my life. Kathleen Beletsky was the best sister, a loving mother, and absolutely wonderful person. 1983 was the year Kathleen was brutally murdered in cold blood by the man who was supposed to love and cherish her always, her husband Carl Beletsky. While nothing could bring Kathleen back, I thought justice had been served when Carl was sentenced and his freedom taken away. As Kathleen’s sister, I received letters notifying me of upcoming parole hearings every few months for many years. Then they suddenly stopped. After spen...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. David Wuelling was one of them. His release was discretionary. 57th in the series . David Wuelling murdered James Weiss, a teacher at Northeast Wisconsin Technical Institute. According to a 1987 article in the Green Bay Press-Gaxzette, Wuelling had dropped his courses at the school and couldn’t keep a steady job. He took a taxi to the college carrying a “single-shot, black powder cap and ball pistol he built from a kit,” after drinking whiskey. Once at the school, he threatened suicide in a classroom, so Weiss and another teacher told 20 students in the class to leave. Wuelling then shot Weiss through the chest, killing him. Evers' Parole Commission Freed David Wuelling Early Date paroled:   [You ca...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. Randy Rotta was one of them. His release was discretionary. 56th in the series . According to a 1981 article in the Wisconsin State Journal, Randy Rotta, then 23, and from Milwaukee, murdered a 17-year-old girl. The victim was named Cynthia Ann Warden, 17, of Greendale. Her “nude body was found in a South Side hotel room” in Milwaukee. She was found with a towel and brassiere “trussed around her neck,” according to old news stories. Evers' Parole Commission Freed Randy Rotta Early [caption id="attachment_92609" align="alignleft" width="244"] Randy Rotta[/caption] Date paroled: 12/03/2020   [You can look up Randy Rotta's parole here . Put his name in the database a...

We deconstruct how the Wisconsin media, in partnership with Democrats, created and spread their own narrative to deceive the public about parole. Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin media have repeatedly deceived the public about parole numbers. They have falsely reported that hundreds of the paroles were mandatory releases. They are not. The nearly 1,000 releases during Evers' tenure all involved discretion by Evers' appointee or administration. Mandatory releases - cases where state law requires that inmates be freed after serving 2/3rds of their sentences - were filtered out by the Parole Commission. Killers serving life sentences do not qualify for mandatory release anyway. This is how the deception went down: On Sept. 7, we broke the story that the Parole Commission released, via open records laws, a sheet listing nearly 1,000 parole grants during Evers' tenure, through late 2021. Each was labeled parole grant and "parole commission action." We s...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. Serial rapist Edwardo Perez was one of them. His release was discretionary. But now, no one knows where he is. 55th in the series . Evers' appointee freed a serial rapist on parole who raped a teenage girl and an elderly woman in two separate attacks. Even though he was released in 2022, he's already absconded. The crimes of Edwardo Perez, 65, who has seven different aliases, are horrific. He was in prison for the vicious rape of a 78-year-old woman in La Crosse, whose home he broke into. He was previously convicted of raping a 15-year-old Tomah girl when he was in his 30s. He's a non-compliant registered sex offender. Perez was paroled on January 25, 2022, according to the state Department of Cor...

The map shows how Evers' appointee's parole spree has touched every corner of the state. Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. These paroles were discretionary. The Evers parole map shows the location where the killers, attempted killers, and rapists have been released to, according to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections from January 2019 through the end of May 2022. Zoom in to see the parolees' placement throughout the state more clearly. Evers Parole Map There are a few more on the map through October that we learned from through sources. Not all of the killers and rapists are on the Evers parole map because the location of some are not known and/or they absconded, according to DOC . To the heads of law enforcement agencies: If you were n...

Not only has the Evers' Administration failed to notify multiple victims' families about parole hearings throughout Wisconsin, but WRN has now documented that the Wisconsin Parole Commission is violating state law by failing to notify some law enforcement agencies in communities where convicted killers are living. For example, the West Bend and Waupaca Police Departments told Wisconsin Right Now that they were not notified of paroled killers' releases into those communities. The Onalaska police chief told the La Crosse Tribune that city wasn't notified of a strangler/rapist's release, either. "Nope, we had no idea, until we saw it in the paper like everyone else," a West Bend police commander told us after researching the notification issues. Wisconsin law explicitly states that both the municipal police department and Sheriff's Department shall be notified of a parolee's release before the release occurs: 304.06 (1)(g) Before a person ...

Since 2019, Gov. Tony Evers' Parole Commission has released hundreds of convicted criminals, freeing them early on parole mostly into Wisconsin communities, including more than 300 murderers and attempted murderers, and more than 47 child rapists. David Lahti was one of them. His release was discretionary. 53rdth in the series . “We’re fearful for the community,” Linda Frederick, of Kenosha, told the Kenosha News when Evers’ appointee freed David Lahti, the man who murdered her husband, Richard V. Frederick Sr., on Halloween night 1985. According to the newspaper, she thought he would never get out of prison. After all, he received a life prison term. That was before Tony Evers took office and appointed John Tate as parole chair. The newspaper article says the parole came as “startling news” to the Frederick family. According to the Kenosha News, the victim and killer lived in an apartment building in Kenosha. Lahti had told an apartment manager that he was goi...