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WI - Lake Geneva Suitcase Murders*** MEDIA and TIMELINE THREAD *** NO DISCUSSION***
“Laura and Mr. Zelich were not strangers:” Police in Rochester provide new details in death of Laura Simonson
Posted 11:02 am, June 26, 2014, by Trisha Bee and Rachelle Baillon, Updated at 08:48pm, June 26, 2014
ROCHESTER, Minn. (WITI) — The Rochester Police Department held a briefing Thursday morning, June 26th, during which they released new information about the deaths of two women who were found in suitcases in the Town of Geneva on June 5th.
The suitcases containing the bodies were discovered on June 5th by a Town of Geneva Highway Department employee who was cutting grass in the area of N. Como Road, east of Co. Rd. H.
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Town of Geneva police say one of the victims has been identified as 37-year-old Laura Simonson from Farmington, Minnesota.
Oregon woman is second body in Wisconsin suitcases
Michael Winter, USA TODAY 9:42 p.m. EDT June 30, 2014
Laura Simonson
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The second victim, 37-year-old Laura Simonson, of Farmington, Minn., was reported missing in November, and her family had alerted police that they believed she was with Zelich. Her father told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that his daughter had placed escort ads on Craigslist.
Second Woman Found In Suitcase
The Huffington Post | By David Lohr
Posted: 06/30/2014 4:32 pm EDT Updated: 06/30/2014 9:59 pm EDT
Jenny Gamez
Authorities have identified Jenny Gamez as the second woman found dead in a suitcase left on the side of a rural Wisconsin roadway.
According to the Walworth County Sheriff's Office, Gamez, 21, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, disappeared in 2012. The positive identification was made using dental records.
Newly-released: Stripper claims she was assaulted by Zelich when he was a police officer
Posted 4:10 pm, July 2, 2014, by A.J. Bayatpour, Updated at 10:01pm, July 2, 2014
Nearly 13 years earlier, in the spring of 2001, a woman told West Allis police that Zelich, an officer at the time, had assaulted her. The woman said she was a stripper, and had agreed to go home with Zelich for a “private show.”
When they went into Zelich’s bedroom, the woman says Zelich “dropped something into his pants pocket” that “sounded like handcuffs.” When she tried to leave, the woman says Zelich “grabbed her and threw her to the ground.”
Zelich was never charged in the incident. Three months later, he resigned from the West Allis Police Department.
Former police officer linked to S&M forum where he went by 'Mr Handcuffs' arrested after bodies of two women found stuffed in suitcases
By Snejana Farberov
Published: 12:45 EST, 26 June 2014 | Updated: 13:16 EST, 27 June 2014
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Investigators searched the suspect's West Allis apartment Wednesday and carried out objects in large, brown paper bags. They also removed a refrigerator.
Chief Hurley issued a statement to assure 'the citizens of West Allis that there is no danger.'
The suspect is a licensed private security officer who has worked for Securitas Security Services USA 2007, according to the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. He also worked on the side as a contractor for a website that offers users legal advice starting at $20 a month.
Mr Zelich was forced to resign from the police force in West Allis in 2001 after allegedly getting into an off-duty fight with a prostitute whom he had accused of stealing from him.
Gruesome find: Highway workers cutting grass outside Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
on this road found two suitcases in tall weeds in a ditch. They were moved them
to the side of the road. Officers investigated and found a body in each suitcase
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz36fCFBN40
Former West Allis officer charged with hiding bodies in suitcases
By Megan Trimble, Gina Barton and Ashley Luthern of the Journal Sentinel
June 26, 2014
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Family and friends knew Simonson was with Zelich "from the beginning," a family member said. The family contacted authorities multiple times in an attempt to locate her, and one of Simonson's friends placed an ad on SecondCityClassifieds.com that claimed Simonson was mentally disabled and had been enslaved, tortured and abused by Zelich. Richard Wierson said his daughter had sought work as an escort on Craigslist.
The ad in SecondCityClassifieds also provided a cellphone number for Zelich — it matches the contact number on the website for LegalShield, which Zelich works for as an independent contractor — and an email address for him that appears on an online discussion board titled "MasterB Slave Club."
Bodies found in suitcases along Wis. ditch
Associated Press, Associated Press 9:28 p.m. EDT June 6, 2014
City police chief Steven Hurley says a highway worker came across the cases Thursday as he mowed the grass in Town of Geneva, about 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee. Another person alerted police officers who opened the cases and discovered the bodies inside.
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Steven Zelich and online enslavement interest
by John Cuoco Story Created: Jun 26, 2014
MILWAUKEE- Steven Zelich, suspect arrested after two bodies found in suitcases in Geneva, has also now been linked with several sadomasochistic websites.
CBS 58 did an internet search and turned up a number of results. Zelich has a profile on a website called "Collarspace.Com." It's a site for people into bondage and sadomasochism aka BDSM.
On there, Zelich is pictured sitting on a couch and goes by the name "Mr. Handcuffs"
Former West Allis cop charged with hiding bodies in suitcases
June 27, 2014|Megan Trimble, Gina Barton and Ashley Luthern | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A former West Allis police officer was charged Thursday with two felonies for hiding two women's bodies -- one for more than a year -- that were found in suitcases along a road in the Town of Geneva.
Although Steven M. Zelich, 52, has not been charged with homicide, he admitted to meeting both women online, killing them during their first meetings and hiding their bodies in suitcases, according to the criminal complaint.
Complaint: Ex-cop Hid Women's Bodies for Months
Created: 06/26/2014 10:23 AM KSTP.com - Updated: 06/27/2014 7:35 AM
In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, Walworth County investigators carry bags full of material from an apartment in West Allis, Wis., after picking up a suspect allegedly involved in two murders where the bodies were found in suitcases.
Defense: Deaths may be accidental
by M.L. JOHNSON Associated Press on June 28, 2014 10:20 AM
“It could be anything from premeditated homicide down to accidental death that occurred through a consensual sex-related act,” Walworth County public defender Travis Schwantes said after the bond hearing.
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Bodies of 2 women found in suitcases; ex-cop is main suspect
Posted: Jun 27, 2014 6:12 AM CST Updated: Jun 27, 2014 6:12 AM CST
By Associated Press
Steven M. Zelich is scheduled to appear in court in Wisconsin on Friday afternoon on two counts of hiding a corpse. Authorities say Zelich, a 52-year-old security guard from West Allis, Wisconsin, met his victims online, bound and killed them and kept their bodies for months, either in his vehicle or his home, though he has not yet been charged in their deaths.
One of the women was Laura Simonson, whose family reported her missing last November. Hollatz, a police detective in the Twin Cities suburb of Farmington, Minnesota, told The Associated Press on Thursday that Zelich had been "the No. 1 person on my radar" since January. But the crucial break didn't come until highway workers found the suitcases with the bodies on June 5 in the Town of Geneva, some 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee.
Bail set for Wisconsin ex-cop charged with hiding two corpses
June 27, 2014|By Brendan O'Brien | Reuters
ELKHORN Wisc. (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge set bail at $1 million on Friday for a former police officer suspected of stashing the bodies of two women in suitcases and dumping them along the road.
Steven Zelich, 52, has been charged with two felony counts of hiding a corpse in Walworth County. One of the bodies was found naked with a rope wrapped around her neck and a ball gag strapped into her mouth. The other woman's hands were bound with rope behind her back, according to a criminal complaint.
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Zelich faces up to 10 years in prison on each charge.
Positively identified: Officials in Walworth Co. say unidentified body found in suitcase is Jenny Gamez of Oregon
Posted 1:21 pm, June 30, 2014, by Katie DeLong and Myra Sanchick, Updated at 10:12pm, June 30, 2014
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Jenny Gamez, of Cottage Grove, Oregon, disappeared in 2012.
Apparently, Gamez wasn’t reported missing initially. She told her family she was moving, and police say the young woman’s family just thought she was moving on with her life.
Investigators are still working on the time frame involving when she disappeared and when she was killed, but they believe it was in late 2012 or early 2013.
“No doubt it was her:” Friends & family of Jenny Gamez were just waiting on dental records to prove it
Posted 4:44 pm, June 30, 2014, by Katie DeLong and Derica Williams, Updated at 10:11pm, June 30, 2014
WALWORTH CO./KENOSHA CO. (WITI) — After seeing the sketch put out by officials in Walworth County after two bodies were found in suitcases in the Town of Geneva, friends and family members of Jenny Gamez in Oregon say they knew it was her. They were just waiting on dental records to prove it.
Jenny Gamez
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Ex-cop to stand trial after bodies found in suitcases following alleged rough-sex deaths
Thursday, July 03, 2014 - WLS-TV Chicago
ELKHORT, Wis. --
A former police officer charged with dumping two bodies hidden in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway said he killed the women during separate meetings at hotels to have rough sex, a detective testified Thursday.
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Authorities there have said they expect homicide charges to be filed in the counties where the women died, but Zelich's public defender Travis Schwantes said Thursday in court that the deaths were accidents that may not merit additional charges.
Judge Phillip Koss disagreed, saying hiding the bodies, first in Zelich's home and car and then in tall grass along the road, indicated Zelich knew a crime had occurred.
"If there's purely no crime, I'm not sure why one doesn't call 911 immediately, but beyond that, if there's no crime, it's not clear why these need to be hid at all," Koss said as he ordered Zelich held for trial on the hiding a corpse charges.
Suspect in suitcase slayings wanted bodies to be found, attorney says
James Queally, Chicago Tribune
12:46 p.m. CDT, July 3, 2014
The former Wisconsin cop charged in the grisly slayings of two women he met on bondage websites wanted their bodies to be found by police, his attorney argued during a probable cause hearing Thursday.
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"It appeared that he was actually trying to have the suitcases be discovered based on where they were placed," [public defender] Schwantes said.
Former cop Zelich faces trial for hiding corpses; told police deaths accidental
Posted: Jul 03, 2014 11:26 AM CST Updated: Jul 03, 2014 3:55 PM CST
By Tony Galli
During testimony by Walworth County Sheriff's detective Jeffrey Recknagel during Zelich's preliminary hearing, Recknagel said Zelich maintained the women's deaths were the result of bondage type sex.
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But Judge Phillip Koss doubted Zelich's explanation.
"The defendant says they (the deaths) were accidental. Perhaps once, but twice, it's not likely to be accidents when this happens two times," Koss said.
Probable cause found for charges that man hid women's bodies in suitcases
Tribune wire reports
11:04 a.m. CDT, July 3, 2014
Zelich told investigators he met both women online, according to a criminal complaint. Zelich told investigators he caused Gamez's death when he met with her in Kenosha County in southeastern Wisconsin in late 2012 or early 2013, and caused Simonson's death at a Rochester, Minnesota, hotel in November, the complaint said.
He is accused of keeping the suitcases with the women inside at his apartment in a Milwaukee suburb and in the trunk of his vehicle before dumping the luggage on the side of a road.
Attorney: Steven Zelich likely wanted bodies to be found
By Ashley Luthern And Megan Trimble
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 4, 2014
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Schwantes hurriedly left court after Koss' ruling, saying there is "a lot of work to do on (the case) right now, and I am eager to do it."
After the court hearing, Schwantes alluded to building a case of the deaths resulting from a reckless accident.
"If it's a reckless act involving two people, which one is being reckless?" Schwantes said. "If two people are involved in a reckless act, can one be charged for accidental death by reckless behavior?
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Woman who escaped suitcase murders suspect speaks out
By Jermont Terry. CREATED Jul 1, 2014 - UPDATED: Jul 2, 2014
“I wanted to live. I wanted my life,” those are the words from a woman who claimed she encountered a tight choke hold of Steven Zelich. Zelich is arrested in charged in “The Suitcase Murders.”
The woman who did not want to be identified told the I-Team she met Zelich at a bar in May 2001. The two talked and agreed to come to back to Zelich’s West Allis apartment on National Avenue.
Woman: “The deal was I was going to give him a private show at his place.”
Reporter: What were you going to get in exchanged for this private show?
Woman: $500.00
But once at the apartment the she claimed Zelich began to act strange.
“When I took off my clothes he decided he wanted to leave the room I was concerned why he was leaving,” explained the woman.
So she followed him and quickly spotted handcuffs.
“The moment he realized I saw the handcuffs that's when he attacked me,” she explained.
Woman: “He grabbed me and wrestled me to the ground.”
Reporter: What did he say to you?
Woman: “He told me that he was going to kill me. I said please stop what are you doing?”
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Zelich 'went ballistic' when questioned about handcuffs, report
By Ashley Luthern of the Journal Sentinel
July 3, 2014
According to the incident report from West Allis police:
West Allis officers were called for a report of a woman, wearing only a bikini, banging on a door, and were told that the woman was last seen walking east on W. National Ave. about 3:40 a.m. May 13, 2001.
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When she questioned him about the handcuffs, she said "he went ballistic, I was trying to get out of his room, but he would not let me get out."
She said they wrestled and he began to choke her.
"Are you going to kill me?" she said she asked Zelich.
"Are you going to have sex with me?" was Zelich's reply, she said.
"I'll do whatever you want, I have condoms in my purse," she said.
"I thought he was going to kill me, I was thinking today ... you are going to die. I kept asking him why are you doing this to me?" she told officers.
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