Wisconsin man admits to killing 2 people in 1992 while in a 'drunken stupor'
A Wisconsin man was charged Friday in the deaths of two people he admitted to stabbing while in a “drunken stupor" and thinking about his father's death, according to court records.
A Wisconsin man was charged Friday in the deaths of two people he admitted to stabbing three decades ago while in a “drunken stupor" and thinking about his father's death, according to court records.
Tony Haase, 51, made the admission to Wisconsin Department of Justice investigators Thursday and was charged with two counts of intentional homicide in the killings of Tanna Togstad and Timothy Mumbrue, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Friday in Waupaca Circuit Court.
Togstad, 23, and Mumbrue, 34, were found stabbed to death on March 21, 1992, in the bedroom of her home in Royalton, 54 miles southwest of Green Bay, the affidavit says.
The Waupaca County Law Enforcement Center in Wis. The County Courthouse is located behind this building.Google MapsHaase was identified as their possible killer after his DNA was collected during a traffic stop in July, according to the affidavit. The circumstances surrounding the stop weren't immediately clear but the affidavit says Haase was identified as a "recent subject" in the investigation into the killings.
When investigators approached him at the Waupaca County foundry where he works, Haase initially denied being involved in the killings and later said he did so because he didn't want them to seem planned, the affidavit says.
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