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Summerwind, formerly known as Lamont Mansion, is a ruined mansion on the shores of West Bay Lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Located on private land, its ruins are closed to the public. A number of urban legends and ghost stories in popular culture have contributed to its reputation as a haunted house. [4]
Chicago Tribune Ghost Towns Haunt Wisconsin As Lumbering Ends; Wisconsin Public Television - Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin "Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin". website. Rootsweb. August 7, 2010 "Kenosha Co. WI Placenames". website. Rootsweb
The John McCaffary House is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. It was built in 1842 and was the site of the murder of Bridget McCaffary by her husband, John McCaffary . He was the first and only person executed by the State of Wisconsin before it abolished the death penalty in 1853.
The Villisca Ax Murder House makes no attempt to hide its grim past. In the summer of 1912, an unknown intruder broke into the house and murdered Josiah and Sarah Montgomery Moore, and their ...
There are many infamous “murder houses” across the nation that were home to some of the most notorious killers in the world – and often, several are where their heinous crimes took place ...
These cold cases from Wisconsin range from 1963 to 2008, taking place in Fond du Lac, Kewaunee, Outagamie, Portage, Sheboygan and Winnebago counties. Here are 7 unsolved murder cases in Wisconsin ...
Murder of Christine Schultz: Milwaukee: May 28, 1981: Former Milwaukee police officer convicted for the murder of her husband's ex-wife; she escaped in 1990 in an episode that inspired the slogan "Run, Bambi, Run" Murder of Amber Creek: Burlington: 1997-02: Teenager who ran away from a youth shelter; suspect convicted of her murder 34 years later
Sheboygan County Asylum in Sheboygan, c. 1912. The Sheboygan County Hospital for the Insane was a former lunatic asylum serving Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.Opened in 1876 in Winooski, it was replaced in 1882 with a larger facility in Sheboygan, which underwent several expansions before closing in 1940.