A report shows the number of domestic violence murders last year was down a little from 2017.
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin is putting out its annual homicide report, and there were 38 deaths in 2018. That compares to 45 in 2017.
Spokesman Tony Wilkin Gibart says some local cases are included.
Laurie Colon was killed by her estranged husband at her Kimberly home in a murder-suicide. Ashley Mielke’s boyfriend killed her, and himself, before setting their house on fire in the Town of Clayton.
