Local ABC affiliate WKOW reports that Pulvermacher was scheduled to appear at a hearing last June 3. But prison officials would not comply with a judge\u2019s order to produce the suspect because the entire facility was in quarantine as a result of an outbreak of COVID-19.<\/p>\n
Then, a scheduled hearing for an October 27 came and went, still with no appearance from Pulvermacher.<\/p>\n
According to court filings, the prisoner could not be released because he was \u201cin isolation\u201d for at least ten days, and the reason for this could not be divulged.<\/p>\n
Correction Department documents seen by WKOW indicate \u201cisolation\u201d is not a word used to describe disciplinary measures.<\/p>\n
Pulvermacher\u2019s court appearance has been rescheduled for December 1, but Johnson\u2019s family, desperate for closure, is skeptical that he\u2019ll make an appearance.<\/p>\n
“I am not expecting that is going to happen on December 1 either, because of the COVID issues in Waupun,” Lori Udelhofen, Johnson\u2019s daughter, told WKOW.<\/p>\n
We did want him in the courtroom for sentencing because we wanted him to have to face our family and all of the people he hurt so deeply,” she added.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nPulvermacher has an extensive criminal history, and once escaped from a federal prison where he was serving a sentence for robbery and weapons charges. He was recaptured a week later.<\/p>\n
Another Ho-Chunk Attack<\/strong><\/h2>\nMeanwhile, on Wednesday a woman was found guilty of felony aggravated battery after she attacked and robbed a man at the Ho-Chunk Baraboo back in 2016.<\/p>\n
Thirty-year-old Chia Chang\u2019s 68-year-old victim was so savagely beaten he required eye surgery to repair a torn retina.<\/p>\n
Chiang had been scheduled to appear in court in 2018, but had twice failed to attend. She reappeared in September 2019 trying to cash phony checks at a branch of the Wells Fargo bank.<\/p>\n
She claimed she did not remember attacking her victim with a coat hanger at the Ho-Chunk and that she had an alcohol problem and suffered from blackouts.<\/p>\n
Chiang was banned from entering any gambling business and from having any contact with the man she attacked. She was fined $200 and ordered to undergo alcohol and drug counseling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The trial of a septuagenarian charged with fatally stabbing a fellow senior citizen outside the Ho-Chunk Casino in Baraboo, Wisconsin is on ice. That’s after an outbreak of coronavirus in the prison holding the accused. Robert Pulvermacher is alleged to have killed 88-year-old Harold Johnson after the older man tried to collect a small gambling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":154963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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