This podcast contains adult themes and graphic violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

A few notes before we start the show.

I'm all signed up for the True Crime Podcast Festival in Kansas City next year, the weekend of July 11th.

If you're going, get your tickets early before the prices go up.

The podcast took a bit of a break this fall.

I've had a lot of things going on in my life for the last few weeks, but I've brought in some research help for the show, and hopefully we will be on a twice a month release schedule in 2020.

I'm Renee, and this is Beyond Contempt True Crime.

Green Bay, Wisconsin has a population of 100,000, and is full of blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth-th-type people.

It's a city that was built on washing your Friday night fish-fry down with an old-fashioned, calling out a smearer during your Saturday night sheep's-ed

car game, and yelling at your TV during the Sunday Packer football game. Green Bay is known

for its paper mills, which have traditionally offered some of the best benefits, pay, and free

paper products that a high school-educated person can get. When someone lands a paper mill job,

they stay there until retirement. If you haven't worked at a paper mill, you probably know

someone who does. Many of my family and friends worked at the James River Paper Mill in Green Bay.

I worked there for four summers, and that allowed me to get through

college with very little debt. And if you use northern toilet paper in the mid to late 90s,

I likely hand-packed it. In 1993, they found a James River employee dead in one of the pulp

thats. Two and a half years later, in the spring in 1995, six Paper Mill

employees were arrested for the murder. I first stepped foot inside the James River Paper Mill

one month after their arrests, and you could still feel the turmoil in the air. The news media around

this case was on relenting and was very one-sided.

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