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Woman found dead in Iowa, two suspects found dead in Wisconsin home after hours long standoff

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An Iowa woman is dead as the result of foul play, and a 13-year-old was found dead as well Wednesday night. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said the two suspects are dead after they barricaded themselves in a home in the Town of Albion.

Around 7 p.m., the Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of an unresponsive person at a home in Dubuque County, Iowa. When they got to the home, in the 9800 block of Haxbylane Road, they found a woman dead. Investigators said her death was the result of foul play.

The woman had two children, a 5-month-old baby and a teenager, about 13 years old, who were staying with her in the home where she was found. But authorities did not find either of the children there.

Authorities in Iowa say they later learned that the 5-month-old baby was turned over to a random Wisconsin home.


The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office said their person of interest was later reported to be involved in a vehicle pursuit in Dane County, Wisconsin.

They say during the chase, the fleeing vehicle was disabled and the people inside the vehicle tried to run. One of those occupants of the vehicle was the 13-year-old child Dubuque authorities had tried to find.

Later, that 13-year-old was found dead. The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office says they do not know how the teenager died.

The two suspects, a male and a female, were found dead inside an Albion home, in the 1300 block of Washington Road, after hours of negotiations with police.


In a Facebook post, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office says they tried to stay in contact with the armed suspect inside the home on Ramsey Rd. That armed suspect is believed to be a man, but this has not been confirmed by police. Police say they used a robot to go inside the residence and found that the man had taken his own life. It is not clear how the female died. Limited information is available at this time about the two, but it is possible the man is connected to an ongoing foul play investigation in Iowa where a woman was found dead.

On Wednesday night, during the standoff, Dane County Emergency Management asked people to stay inside their homes, lock their doors and avoid the area around Ramsey Road in the town of Albion.

The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office says they will release more information Thursday morning.

 
This story is super f***ed up. He was sexually assaulting the girl, and the infant was his child via her is how I read all of this. He was giving the girl cocaine and meth as part of the grooming process.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/04/11/court-records-reveal-relationships-dubuque-wisconsin-deaths/

He had also been convicted of attempting to dig up a dead body so his brother could have sex with it. Of course it’s Wisconsin.

 
good thing we don’t have much to offer in this country for mental illness.
I mean digging up a dead body to have sex with it is totally normal.
Why would anyone think they wouldn’t be fit to be out in the public and not do something crazy again in life.
Many people want to hold gun owners accountable if their gun is stolen yet we don’t seem to want to hold anyone accountable for this nutjob wandering about in our society.
 
He had also been convicted of attempting to dig up a dead body so his brother could have sex with it. Of course it’s Wisconsin.

When that story was fresh, I printed out fliers detailing that story and other disgraceful Wisconsin stories and I handed them out to badger fans when they came to Kinnick circa 2010. I tried to warn them.
 
This story is super f***ed up. He was sexually assaulting the girl, and the infant was his child via her is how I read all of this. He was giving the girl cocaine and meth as part of the grooming process.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/04/11/court-records-reveal-relationships-dubuque-wisconsin-deaths/
So he shot the "Grandma" and fled with the child/gf( who is 13) dropped the baby off somewhere, and killed her then himself most likely....


****ing gross.

Please lord be with that 5 month old child.
 
Characters like Grunke get released from prison for any number of reasons.
In some cases, it's age, others could be shoddy police work that DAs have to accept lesser pleas to get a conviction, still others are prison overpopulation, or maybe similar to Iowa...not enough prison staffing.

Just a horrible ending, but not surprising.
 
So he shot the "Grandma" and fled with the child/gf( who is 13) dropped the baby off somewhere, and killed her then himself most likely....


****ing gross.

Please lord be with that 5 month old child.
Shot the mother(gf) of the 13 y o, who was his daughter, then killed his daughter.
As you said, sounds like he was sexually active with daughter.
 
Extremely phucked up, but this is my take...

Man digs up corpse for sex
Man goes to prison
Man gets released from prison
Man meets woman with daughter
Man moves in with woman and daughter
Man grows bored with woman
Man fathers child with daughter
Man kills woman
Man runs off with daughter and newborn
Man delivers newborn to friend or family
Man kills daughter
Man kills self
 
Extremely phucked up, but this is my take...

Man digs up corpse for sex
Man goes to prison
Man gets released from prison
Man meets woman with daughter
Man moves in with woman and daughter
Man grows bored with woman
Man fathers child with daughter
Man kills woman
Man runs off with daughter and newborn
Man delivers newborn to friend or family
Man kills daughter
Man kills self
They keep saying that he dropped the baby off at a "random" home.
 
Extremely phucked up, but this is my take...

Man digs up corpse for sex
Man goes to prison
Man gets released from prison
Man meets woman with daughter
Man moves in with woman and daughter
Man grows bored with woman
Man fathers child with daughter
Man kills woman
Man runs off with daughter and newborn
Man delivers newborn to friend or family
Man kills daughter
Man kills self
Yeah, that is how I read it. Sad, disgusting, bizarre, insert-adjective-here.
 
Extremely phucked up, but this is my take...

Man digs up corpse for sex
Man goes to prison
Man gets released from prison
Man meets woman with daughter
Man moves in with woman and daughter
Man grows bored with woman
Man fathers child with daughter
Man kills woman
Man runs off with daughter and newborn
Man delivers newborn to friend or family
Man kills daughter
Man kills self

If only he could have started at the end of this list. Would have done everyone a favor.
 
Three people are dead in what appears to be a domestic abuse situation as Wisconsin and Iowa authorities investigate what happened Wednesday that ended in the suspected suicide of the shooter, the slaying of a Dubuque County woman and the unexplained death of a 13-year-old girl.



Alexander C. Grunke of Middleton, Wis., was identified as the shooter who authorities said killed himself after a pursuit and an armed standoff with law enforcement in Albion, Wis., about 30 miles southeast of Madison. He was in his late 30s.


A 13-year-old girl who was riding with him during the chase, and who was reportedly shooting at pursuing squad cars, also died nearby in the woods, though the cause of her death is undetermined. She has not been identified.




Two hours after the shootout, the Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office found Tana Poppe, 32, dead at her home in rural Dubuque County. Poppe’s death is being investigated as a homicide, and Grunke is considered a person of interest in her slaying, the sheriff’s office said.


The 13-year-old girl had been staying with Poppe at her home, as had a 5-month-old baby, authorities said.


Dane County (Wis.) Sheriff Kalvin Barrett detailed what happened in a Thursday news conference.

Alexander C. Grunke Alexander C. Grunke
He said the sheriff’s office received a call at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday from a family who told them Grunke and a 13-year-old girl had dropped off a 5-month-old child at their house in Dunn, Wis.


The family gave sheriff’s deputies information about the vehicle — a black Ford Escape — that Grunke and the girl left in. Deputies found the car and attempted a traffic stop but were led on a chase through the county.


Both Grunke and the girl fired weapons — a handgun and a rifle — at the deputies pursuing them, the sheriff said. The deputies did not return fire, the sheriff said.


Law enforcement officers stopped the car in Albion, Wis. — about 15 miles from where the baby had been dropped off — using tire deflation devices.


Grunke and the girl fled.






The girl ran into a wooded area and was later found unresponsive. She was pronounced dead from an unknown cause. Barrett said in the news conference the girl had no obvious wounds and no weapons were found with her.


Grunke ran into a house on Ramsey Road in Albion, firing several rounds into the house, and barricaded himself in the basement. Deputies were able to remove the family that lived there, and they were uninjured.


“The courageous acts of the deputies and the courage of the family is the reason why they were able to be removed from the house without further incident,” Barrett said at the news conference.


Dane County deputies attempted to talk to Grunke but were unable to make contact with him. Eventually, deputies used a robot to enter the home and found Grunke dead, an apparent suicide, at around 7 a.m. Thursday.


Deputies did not discharge their weapons during the chase or the standoff, and none of the deputies involved were injured, Barrett said.


At 7:11 p.m. Wednesday — two hours after the baby was dropped off in Dunn and while the standoff was ongoing in Albion — the Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office was called to 9866 Haxbylane Rd., about 10 miles south of Dubuque, where they found Poppe’s body.


A Dubuque County news release did not give a suspected motive for the homicide but did encourage anyone who is involved in or knows someone who is involved in a domestic abuse relationship to call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-(800)-799-SAFE (7233), or text “START” to 88788, or call the Iowa Victim Service Call Center at 1-(800) 770-1650, or text “IOWAHELP” to 20121.


“As a reminder, one of the most dangerous times for women is when they are separating from a domestic relationship,” the release stated.


“Our hearts ache today for the friends and family of those who passed away,” Dane County Sheriff Barrett said at the Thursday news conference. “No matter the circumstances, we at the Dane County Sheriffs Office take the loss of life very seriously, and we send our deepest condolences and are empathetic to the loss of life that occurred yesterday evening.”


Court records​


Dane County Court Records show Poppe and Grunke shared a 9-year-old daughter, according to online court records. Poppe petitioned for a restraining order against Grunke twice in October 2023, and records show multiple text messages in which she referred to him as a “predator of children,” telling him to leave her and her children alone, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.


Police have not said anything about the 10-year-old girl's whereabouts.


The relationship between Grunke and the 13-year-old and infant wasn't immediately clear, according to authorities.


On March 26, Grunke was charged in Dane County with abduction of child, interference with child custody and knowingly violating a domestic abuse injunction. The case had not been adjudicated.


Court records indicate Grunke is 38 years old, though Dane County officials reported he was 37 or 39.

 
Wait.... he impregnated his daughter (13) to make the 4 month old? I read it as the "grandma" and he were unrelated.
I've seen stories that both children were the children of the dead woman in Iowa.
Then stories that 5 month old was actually child of 13 y o.
Then stories that dead guy was father of both children.
As mentioned, this is just a crazy scenario.
 
I've seen stories that both children were the children of the dead woman in Iowa.
Then stories that 5 month old was actually child of 13 y o.
Then stories that dead guy was father of both children.
As mentioned, this is just a crazy scenario.
Disgusting no matter what.
 
Deputies did not discharge their weapons during the chase or the standoff, and none of the deputies involved were injured, Barrett said.

Maybe the deputies should get jobs in Chicago, amiright?
 
Where did Grunke get the guns seems like a good question to ask.
 
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