Suspected serial killer faces more counts
MILWAUKEE — A suspected serial killer has been charged in the slayings of five more women in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm said Thursday he filed the additional charges against Walter E. Ellis, who now faces five counts of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree murder.
Ellis is suspected in a string of killings from 1986 to 2007. Police said the 49-year-old’s DNA was found on the bodies of nine women ages 16 to 41.
Investigators believe eight of the women were prostitutes who were strangled and one was a runaway whose throat was cut. Ellis has not been charged in the deaths of the runaway and one of the suspected prostitutes.
His attorney, Alejandro Lockwood, did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Sep 10, 2009 at 11:15 p.m.
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What could possibly be done to this guy, particularly in this state, to even begin to approximate justice?
Sep 10, 2009 at 7:54 p.m.
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Well?
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