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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is the eighteenth 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 2019, and includes a review of 20 years of coalition data collection on domestic violence homicide in Wisconsin.
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.
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.
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/