Donald Maier
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – Murder charges have been filed in a killing from 37 years ago in Wisconsin Rapids.
Donald Maier, 60, is charged with the 1985 stabbing death of Benny Scruggs in a trailer park. The suspect and the victim were next door neighbors.
According to court documents, Maier reached out to the Wisconsin Rapids police department in March 2012 while he was being tried for a separate stalking case. At the time he claimed Scruggs’ wife Yvonne was the killer. She is now deceased.
A new criminal complaint names Maier as the killer, based on the testimony of unnamed witnesses. Court documents say he bragged about the killing in prison and was thinking about writing a book about the cold case.
Maier is currently serving jail time in Racine in an unrelated case.
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