David Kahl
MADISON, WI (WSAU) – A man who admitted to killing Brittany Zimmerman of Marshfield in her Madison apartment while she was attending UW will serve life without the possibility of parole.
David Kahl was handed the sentence on Friday in a Dane County courtroom, where he apologized to Zimmerman’s family and told them he has accepted the punishment due to him.
Court records show both sides agreed that the 56-year-old would not be eligible for parole. His guilty plea to the homicide charge, which is a Class A felony, sealed his life sentence.
Zimmerman was 21 at the time she was murdered in 2008 while studying at the flagship UW campus. Officers say she was strangled and stabbed to death, though it remained unclear by whom until 2018. That’s when forensic investigators were able to match DNA from her shirt to Kahl. He was arrested and charged two years later.
Kahl did admit that he was panhandling in the area of Zimmerman’s apartment at the time she was murdered. He was questioned in the days after her killing.
He pled guilty to the charge last fall.
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