Homicide Reports Homicide Response Plan GRACE Domestic Violence Homicide Support Group Lethality Assessment Program (LAP)

Homicide Reports

Since 2000, End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin (WCADV) has been researching, documenting and publishing an annual report detailing domestic violence-related homicides in Wisconsin. In doing so, our intent is to honor the victims and survivors of domestic violence homicide. We also want to support Wisconsin communities to create opportunities for intervention and prevention of homicide. We hope to expand the understanding of the dynamics of domestic violence among Coordinated Community Response (CCR) Teams, Elder Abuse Interdisciplinary Teams, and other critical systems where those living with domestic violence, whether as the primary target of the violence or the perpetrator, might seek help, assistance, support and opportunities to change. Through our annual reporting, we hope to inspire community members to get involved in efforts to prevent domestic violence.

2023 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the 22nd edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2023. Additionally, the report offers historical, national, and global context and spotlights major issues impacting domestic violence in Wisconsin, and the impact of funding cuts on programs and survivors.

2022 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the 21st edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2022. Additionally, the report offers historical, national, and global context and spotlights murder-suicide & the violence of the gender binary, the disproportionate impact on Black, Indigenous, and POC communities, and the impact of funding cuts as homicides rise.

2021 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the twentieth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2021. Additionally, the report offers historical, national, and global context and spotlights the link between mass violence and intimate partner violence (IPV), the link between family violence and pet abuse, and addresses interventions with those who cause harm.

2020 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report: 2020 Homicides & a Special Feature on Justice, Remembrance, & Healing for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples

This is the nineteenth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2020, and includes a special feature on Justice, Remembrance, & Healing for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples.

2018 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the seventeenth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2018.

2017 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the sixteenth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2017.

2016 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the fifteenth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2016.

2015 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the fourteenth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2015.

2014 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This is the thirteenth edition of the Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report. End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin has been tracking and analyzing all incidents of domestic violence homicide that occurred in Wisconsin since 2000. This report documents fatalities from 2014.

2013 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

The Report documents and analyzes all of the domestic violence homicide incidents that occurred in 2013 in Wisconsin. The 2013 report is significantly different than previous editions because, in addition to the descriptions of individual homicide incidents, it includes interviews and contributions from a diverse group of leaders and stakeholders, such as legislators, law enforcement officers, advocates and surviving family members.

2009 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

Continuing the work launched in 2000 with publication of the first Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report, this edition details domestic violence-related homicides in the calendar year 2009. This brief accounting in no way represents the victims’ full lives. Within the limitations of readily available public information, we have endeavored to construct as accurate a description as possible of key events and circumstances related to each homicide.

2008 Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide Report

This edition details domestic violence-related homicides in the calendar year 2008. This brief accounting in no way represents the victims’ full lives. That would require a far more detailed inquiry, in-depth study of official case records, and conversations with family and friends left behind. Within the limitations of readily available public information we have endeavored to construct as accurate a description as possible of key events and circumstances related to each homicide.

Homicide Response Plan

End Abuse facilitates connections with domestic violence programs in Wisconsin prior to and in the wake of a domestic violence homicide. Our Domestic Violence Homicide Response Plan: A Toolkit for Domestic Violence Programs provides a framework for domestic violence programs and their community partners to guide their collective response to domestic violence-related homicide incidents. This resource outlines some of the important things to consider both in preparation for, and in the aftermath of, experiencing a domestic violence-related homicide in your community.

GRACE Domestic Violence Homicide Support Group

Providing a safe, non-judgmental space for advocates, this group is cost-free and open to any advocate in Wisconsin who has experienced domestic violence homicide in their work – a client, a loved one, or a community member.

GRACE follows a peer-support rather than therapeutic/clinical approach. Our goals for the space include:

  • Validating unique and complex experiences of traumatic grief
  • Honoring the life and memory of those who have been lost
  • Providing connective space for advocates who may be experiencing compounding trauma and struggling as they witness systemic failure
  • Increasing personal coping strategies and promoting healing.

For more information, contact info@endabusewi.org

Lethality Assessment Program (LAP)

Wisconsin’s Domestic Violence Lethality Assessment Program (LAP) Data Portal can be found at www.wilap.org

For programs with questions about lethality assessment Domestic Violence Resource for Increasing Safety and Connection (DV RISC) is a national resource center led by the Center for Justice Innovation, Esperanza United, and Ujima Inc., that provides training and technical assistance on intimate partner violence (IPV) risk and lethality assessments. They are a federally funded technical assistance provider on Risk Assessments with knowledge of the LAP and how various communities have implemented it. 

Through the DV RISC Technical Assistance Portal, they can respond to your needs and enquiries of how to identify, implement, or enhance an intimate partner violence (IPV) risk or lethality assessment strategy, and connect you with a variety of resources and experts in the field. Here is a link to their portal and resources https://dvrisc.org/dv-risc-technical-assistance-portal/

Other pages in this section

Abuse in Later Life
Every person deserves to age with safety, dignity, respect, and care. In the summer of 2024, the National Clearinghouse on Abuse in Later Life (NCALL), an initiative of End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin, created this webpage. It’s full of information and...
Education
End Abuse provides a variety of educational opportunities to advocates, law enforcement, legislators, and community members to enable them to better serve survivors throughout WI.
Public Policy Advocacy
End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin mobilizes advocates, survivors, and concerned individuals to make policy changes that will support survivors and help end domestic violence.
Prevention
We envision promising prevention strategies that work with people and systems to challenge gender, race, and class stereotypes and oppressive norms while defining new ways to be a more positive, equitable, and just society.
Outreach to Underserved Communities
End Domestic Abuse WI has a long history of supporting underserved and under-represented communities - including communities of color, those in later life, the LQBTQI+ community, people with disabilities, children and youth, immigrants and refugees, and tribal communities - in...
Legal Services
Our legal team is a leader in educating advocates, attorneys, judges and others on the best responses to domestic abuse. In addition, we advocate for changes in laws and legal practices to improve the legal system for survivors.
Human Trafficking Awareness
End Abuse provides resources, training and technical assistance to programs serving domestic violence survivors, including survivors of human trafficking. Sex trafficking survivors face unique challenges to recovery and safety.
Engaging Youth
The children and youth program offers training, information, and resources for those working with youth. Also providing leadership opportunities for teens to develop skills they can use to educate their peers.
Economic Empowerment
Financial independence is key to domestic abuse survivors’ ability to live successful, violence-free lives. In partnership with local programs, we address economic needs and challenges so survivors can break free of violence.
Coordinated Community Response
For CCR and other DV/SA-focused multidisciplinary teams seeking to improve their community's response to domestic violence, sexual violence, and other forms of oppression.

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