May 3, 2021 2:31 PM
A former Appleton woman accused of killing her two-month old son makes her initial appearance in Outagamie County Court. Nicole Sobay is accused of smothering the infant while co-sleeping in a North Richmond Street apartment back in June of 2016. Reckless Homicide charges were filed against her in 2019, but Sobay never appeared in court. She was arrested in Alaska back in February. Sobay is being held on a quarter-million dollars cash bond.
DNA analysis has helped police pinpoint and charge a suspect in a 21-year-old sexual assault cold case from Janesville, according to court documents filed Friday.
John E.W. Carter, 61, of Wisconsin Rapids was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree sexual assault by threat of use of a dangerous weapon. The charges stem from a December 1999 incident in which police say Carter followed a 16-year-old girl to her car in the Janesville Mall parking lot and assaulted her in the car.
The state Department of Criminal Investigation in March informed Janesville police that the Janesville assault was linked to a similar incident at the Fox Valley Mall in early 2000 and that the Grand Chute Police Department had developed a suspect through familial DNA, according to a criminal complaint.
Apr 19, 2021 2:43 PM
Criminal charges are filed against a suspect in a cold case abduction and sexual assault in Grand Chute.
Grand Chute police say John Carter is accused of pulling a gun on a 16-year old girl that was just leaving her job at the Younkers in the Fox River Mall in Feburary of 2000. Carter then allegedly assaulted the girl and ran off.
He was arrested in Wisconsin Rapids on Friday, April 16.
Grand Chute Police Chief Greg Peterson won’t say how Carter came to become a suspect.
DNA evidence also links Carter to an alleged sexual assault in Janesville dating back to 1999.
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Apr 14, 2021 7:50 AM
An Appleton man pleads guilty to killing his girlfriend at a duplex on the city’s southeast side.
62-year-old Johnny Scott pleaded guilty as his trial was set to begin in Outagamie County Court this week. He killed Annie Ford in 2017. Investigators say Ford was sleeping in a spare bedroom when Scott pulled a gun on her and shot her. Ford’s teenage son was in the bedroom and he called police.
As part of Scott’s plea agreement, charges of second degree recklessly endangering safety and possession of a firearm by a felon were dismissed. He’ll be sentenced June 15th.