Dolch said Pulvermacher\u2019s life had changed dramatically in the early 1990s when he became a gambling addict and drifted into theft and burglary. In 1997, he escaped from a federal prison near Duluth, Minn. During his recapture about a week later, he wrestled a gun away from a police officer in Adams, Wisc., and tried to take another officer hostage.<\/p>\n
Despite this, his brother, Charlie Pulvermacher, claimed he was not normally a violent man.<\/p>\n
To be quite honest\u2026 Bob has respect for the old folks,\u201d<\/strong> Charlie Pulvermacher told 27 News last year, as his brother was being sought for Johnson\u2019s killing. \u201cBob\u2019s an odd duck. But violent, he\u2019s not.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAt sentencing, Judge Michael Screnock was unmoved by the defense\u2019s pleas for leniency.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Pulvermacher has said it himself. I think it\u2019s fair to say everyone in the room would agree that what happened to Mr. Johnson doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d Screnock said. \u201cIt is impossible to make sense of the suffering that Mr. Johnson went through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A gambler accused of stabbing an 88-year-old man to death outside the Ho-Chunk casino in Baraboo apologized to the victim\u2019s family shortly before he was sentenced to life Tuesday. Robert Pulvermacher, 70, admitting killing Harold Johnson in January 2019 after the latter attempted to collect a gambling debt of just $100. Security footage in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":157247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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