Deer slayer defendant pleads to additional charges
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — One of three men accused of running over and killing several deer with snowmobiles has pleaded not guilty to additional charges.
Twenty-four-year-old Rory Kuenzi was in Waupaca County Circuit Court Wednesday on the additional charges, which include hunting violations.
Kuenzi's attorney is asking the judge for more time to work out a plea deal.
Kuenzi is already facing six counts of felony mistreatment of animals. He and two other men are accused of slaughtering the deer with their snowmobiles Jan. 9 in the Town of Lind.

Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16 p.m.
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Elfie- I've touched up (in the past)a little bit on animals that become supper and yes, it's heartbreaking, for sure heartbreaking, I'm not going to lie. I know that if those animals are going to be somebody's supper, they should be treated much better so that the life they do live is a happy one. However, what I'm saying is that when those animals get their life taken from them, it's fast and practically pain free (for most animals, maybe all). The animals in this article weren't given that chance. They were able to fear for their life for quite an amount of time. They were able to feel pain for quite some time.
Mar 14, 2009 at 10:52 a.m.
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Elfie- If I am putting you to sleep, then you must learn to follow the directions on your prescription bottle. You're obviously under some type of influence. No self-respecting American would post mindless rantings as you have. Or did you hug a Rhus vernix?
Mar 13, 2009 at 10:08 a.m.
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Elfie-One other thing. You called us cowards for not watching your video. You assumed we didn't. Yet in your statement to me, you said you didn't bother watching my video. What does that make you? That's what I thought. And actually, my video speaks the truth about the double standard that PETA stands for. Enjoy your lettuce. Note: I have no problems with people that are vegetarians. I have problems with people like you that choose that lifestyle and push your crap on everyone else.
Mar 13, 2009 at 9:55 a.m.
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Elfie: You are definately the one on here that sounds uneducated. Easy way out to call everyone else uneducated.
You have a lot of nerve basically condoning what these heartless morons did.
Do you have any pets? How about you let them run & have these guys chase them on a snowmobile? Or how about any of your family members? Feel the same way about the deer now?
People like you should not be on sites like this making statements!
Mar 13, 2009 at 9:48 a.m.
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Elfie- Get a life. Exactly. You didn't bother with my link because you didn't want to see the truth. Instead you post your links on here trying to push your pathetic beliefs on everyone else, but when the role is turned, you run and hide. In no way, shape or form do I condone what these pathetic losers did. But don't you dare compare this to people that eat meat. That is a laughing joke and makes you sound completely uneducated. I'm going to go buy my hunting license now for the upcoming spring season. I'll be putting meat on the table and enjoying Mother Nature while you waste all your days of these short lives we all have, trying to push your beliefs on others. I feel bad for people like you.
Mar 13, 2009 at 9:23 a.m.
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Trojan - It is the exactly same. Educate yourself on the matter and get back to me.
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ringsforus- I don't eat eggs. Try asking questions for once. Educate yourself, then get back to me.
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Spark- PETA is not the only organzation out there who have responded to the horror with videos of how the meat gets on your plate. I didn't bother with your link - Where do you get your info- Penn and Teller? Laughable. Read a little more....and get back to me.
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Beeferer- That's it? That's all you have? Give me something to work with. You're putting me to sleep. Get a job....then get back to me.
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SK - If you had actually done your research you would know the atrocities that are happening in these cases and would not have given such an uneducated response. Get back to me when you have....
Like most, you're all cowards and need to wake up. I'm guessing you didn't even watch the videos. Cowards.
Mar 13, 2009 at 9:01 a.m.
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Elfie: You are joking, right?
Do you not know the difference between getting the food on your plate legally vs. something illegal (let alone downright STUPID & HEARTLESS)?
Same crime punishment ~ tie them to a tree. Run them over with a snowmobile or a car.
People like this are a waste of space.
And Efie needs to get a grip.
Mar 13, 2009 at 8:16 a.m.
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Elfie- YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO POST YOUR NONSENSE HERE? GO HUG A TREE! A sumac (Rhus vernix) would be ideal in your case.
Mar 13, 2009 at 7:58 a.m.
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Elfie- Spare everyone your crap. Peta is one of the most crooked, brainwashing, double standard organizations out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MblfdR459...
Mar 13, 2009 at 5:22 a.m.
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ELFIE--GET REAL I AGREE WITH THE TROJAN. YOU EAT EGGS BY CHANCE? WE CAN SAY THOSE ARE COULDA HAVE BEEN CHICKENS THE POINT HERE IS THIS MONSTER DID SOMETHING SO CRUEL TO ANIMALS AND HE IS ACCUSED OF HITTING A GUY WALKING HOME FROM A PARTY (I KNOW BECAUSE I KNEW KEVIN PERSONALLY) AND TO DATE WE ARE TOLD A BOTCHED INVESTIGATION WAS THE FIRST TIME AROUND AND THEY HAVE REOPENED THE INVESTIGATION THIS JERK NEEDS TO COME OFF THE STREET AND OUT OFTHE WOODS
Mar 12, 2009 at 11:56 p.m.
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Elfie, eating meat for dinner is NOT the same as torturing an animal. The meat that gets put on your plate didn't have to suffer a vehicle being ran over it, or a rope being tied around it and stuck to a tree, only to suffocate itself while trying to escape. The meat on your plate wasn't terrified to death before dying.
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Now, I'm not saying that the meat on anyone's plate came from a humane place. I'm pretty sure KFC's chickens were kept in cages way too small with way too many chickens being crammed in there.
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I'm just saying, you can't compare the torture and abuse in this article to the meat that people eat.
Mar 12, 2009 at 8:01 p.m.
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YOU people have the audacity to worry about deer?
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Let me ask you-
WHAT DID YOU ALL HAVE FOR DINNER?????
http://www.meat.org/
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?...
Mar 12, 2009 at 4:45 p.m.
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I truly hope they serve several years. Unfortunately, from the description of the sadistic depravity they exhibited in their carnage, I think they are beyond redemption of any kind. Here's a link to their pics:
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/arti...
An excerpt from the article:
"The three snowmobiles encountered the deer near Denmark Road in Lind, south of Waupaca. Hermes said he accidentally struck a deer, but the Kuenzi brothers started purposely chasing the deer down before running them over.
Hermes said he saw Rory Kuenzi at one point dragging a deer that had been roped to the sled.
Investigators found three of the deer in the field Saturday. A snowmobile had stopped atop one of them and ripped open its stomach, said Ted Dremel, a state Department of Natural Resources warden based in Waupaca County.
A fourth deer had broken legs and was euthanized. The fifth deer was dragged from the field and tied to a tree about 25 feet from a road. It strangled itself trying to get free.
The dead deer were two bucks and three does. One was a fawn."
Mar 12, 2009 at 3:44 p.m.
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The deer didn't get time to plea bargain why should he?
Mar 12, 2009 at 2:47 p.m.
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NOT ONLY IS RORY ACCUSED OF THIS CRIME, HE IS ALSO BEING INVESTIGATED IN THE 2004 DEATH OF KEVIN MCCOY, WHO WAS RUN DOWN WHILE WALKING HOME FROM A PARTY. RUNNING DEER DOWN..ACCUSED OF RUNNING A MAN DOWN (INVESTIGATION STILL ON GOING) bE IT TWO OR FOUR LEGGED CREATURES THIS JERK HAS NO RESPECT FOR ANYTHING HUMAN AND FOR THOSE HOPING JUDGE KIRK WILL THROW THE BOOK AT HIM,DONT HOLD YOUR BREATH HE IS WORTHLESS
Mar 12, 2009 at 2:04 p.m.
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Creeps!
It doesn't mention if drugs or alcohol were involved.
I can't imagine why people would be so heartless.
The prisons are already overcrowded for people that are even worse than people like this. We need to start coming up with other punishments for people like this. Like working at an animal farm for a year shoveling you know what.
Mar 12, 2009 at 12:28 p.m.
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If it wasn't lowering myself to their level, I'd be tempted to be the volunteer of driving a snowmobile and putting these guys in my path.
If someone put Bernie Madoff masks on them first, it would double the temptation.
Mar 12, 2009 at 11:07 a.m.
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Leostime36 - isn't that the sad truth! You're probably right.
Mar 12, 2009 at 10:56 a.m.
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Public humiliation is due here. Where is there picture?
Mar 12, 2009 at 10:40 a.m.
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the sad part about this, is the guy will probably get a more severe sentence than the couple that beat their daughter until she needed brain surgery.
Mar 12, 2009 at 10:01 a.m.
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"would like to see him get several years in prison."
And a ton of community service hours after that!
The ruthless, uncaring personality one would need to brutalize animals, who are obviously in a state of terror, is worrisome. Not all who abuse animals become serial killers, but all serial killers at one point in their life abused animals. Hope these three horrid torturers aren't married or have children. I bet this isn't the first time this behavior has surfaced, just the first time they got caught.
Mar 12, 2009 at 9:37 a.m.
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Anyone that does this to animals is sick. I'm sure he'll get off easy, but I would love to see him get several years in prison.
Mar 12, 2009 at 9:37 a.m.
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Anyone that does this to animals is sick. I'm sure he'll get off easy, but I would to see him get several years in prison.
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