Mysticalmom
05-01-2008, 11:26 AM
http://www.madison.com/wsj/whatcounts/toptoday/index.php?ntid=280418
As police combed the Downtown area Friday for clues about the murder of a UW-Madison student, more details were released about another unsolved homicide, that of a 65-year-old South Side motel resident known as the "tire man."
George L. "Jody " Thomas died from multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma wounds to the head, according to a search warrant unsealed Friday by Dane County Circuit Court officials. The cause of Thomas ' death was a detail that authorities had declined to release.
Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said he was not aware of any connections investigators were making between the murders of Thomas and Brittany Sue Zimmermann, a UW-Madison student whose body was found in her apartment Wednesday.
The warrant, which was signed on Sept. 26, was sought so that police could search an SUV owned by a man who admitted to police that he had been in Thomas ' room at the King 's Inn, 915 W. Beltline, before his death. The search of the SUV turned up no evidence.
No arrests have been made in connection with Thomas ' death.
Thomas was known around the motel for salvaging and selling old tires, which he loaded into a truck he drove around.
Police said about a week after Thomas was killed that they were looking for a "person of interest, " Tosha Krueger, 23.
According to the search warrant:
Police found and interviewed Krueger, who named a 47-year-old man as having been present with her in Thomas ' room the night he was killed.
The man is not being named in this story because he has not been arrested or charged with Thomas 's death.
Krueger said the man had loaned Thomas $10 to buy drugs. She said the man became upset with Thomas because he had not given the man what he thought was his fair share of the drugs bought with his money. Before she left she said she heard the man tell Thomas he would be returning later in the morning to get his $10.
Krueger said she and the man left and went to the home of another man. The two men got into a fight over money that one owed the other.
On Sept. 25, a friend of the man was arrested on a state Department of Corrections warrant while driving the man 's SUV, a 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada. It was impounded by police. The same day, a state Department of Corrections agent arrested the man, who was on probation, on a Corrections warrant. He admitted to police that he was with Thomas around the time of his death.
The warrant also notes that trace hairs were found on Thomas ' hands during his autopsy, which might yield DNA clues as to the person who killed him.
As police combed the Downtown area Friday for clues about the murder of a UW-Madison student, more details were released about another unsolved homicide, that of a 65-year-old South Side motel resident known as the "tire man."
George L. "Jody " Thomas died from multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma wounds to the head, according to a search warrant unsealed Friday by Dane County Circuit Court officials. The cause of Thomas ' death was a detail that authorities had declined to release.
Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said he was not aware of any connections investigators were making between the murders of Thomas and Brittany Sue Zimmermann, a UW-Madison student whose body was found in her apartment Wednesday.
The warrant, which was signed on Sept. 26, was sought so that police could search an SUV owned by a man who admitted to police that he had been in Thomas ' room at the King 's Inn, 915 W. Beltline, before his death. The search of the SUV turned up no evidence.
No arrests have been made in connection with Thomas ' death.
Thomas was known around the motel for salvaging and selling old tires, which he loaded into a truck he drove around.
Police said about a week after Thomas was killed that they were looking for a "person of interest, " Tosha Krueger, 23.
According to the search warrant:
Police found and interviewed Krueger, who named a 47-year-old man as having been present with her in Thomas ' room the night he was killed.
The man is not being named in this story because he has not been arrested or charged with Thomas 's death.
Krueger said the man had loaned Thomas $10 to buy drugs. She said the man became upset with Thomas because he had not given the man what he thought was his fair share of the drugs bought with his money. Before she left she said she heard the man tell Thomas he would be returning later in the morning to get his $10.
Krueger said she and the man left and went to the home of another man. The two men got into a fight over money that one owed the other.
On Sept. 25, a friend of the man was arrested on a state Department of Corrections warrant while driving the man 's SUV, a 1994 Oldsmobile Bravada. It was impounded by police. The same day, a state Department of Corrections agent arrested the man, who was on probation, on a Corrections warrant. He admitted to police that he was with Thomas around the time of his death.
The warrant also notes that trace hairs were found on Thomas ' hands during his autopsy, which might yield DNA clues as to the person who killed him.