[WI] Officer Natalie Wagner- cop husband says she committed suicide, family says no.

Natalie Wagner, 24, a police officer for the village of Shorewood, Wisconsin, was killed by a shotgun blast to the head in the presence of her live-in boyfriend, Michael Quigley, an officer with the Milwaukee Police Department. He says it was a suicide. People who knew her say it was murder.

To learn more: Natalie Wagner

[CA] Janet Kovacich, a deputy's wife, disappeared.

On February 8th, 2005 a book by Jordan Fisher Smith called Nature Noir: A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra, was released nationally by Houghton Mifflin. In it were some details, name changed, of the disappearance of Janet Kovacich in 1982, wife of Paul Kovacich, a sheriff's deputy with Placer County. Ever since, the Auburn police have been digging in the yard and finding. Now they have found human remains. Folks are looking at the deputy.

[OH] ELIZABETH HARTON - Stabbed and shot by fired police officer husband

Ohio - Elizabeth was a Columbus police cadet trainee & wife of fired Columbus police officer, Hermando "Cliff" Harton Jr., who was stabbed many times,

but it was the gunshot to the head that killed her.

He then stole a sheriff's sport-utility vehicle and kept troopers at bay on an interstate for 4 1/2 hours.

She had asked him for a divorce that morning.

Crystal Brame "Judson" murdered by police chief husband

Washington - 2003
Crystal and Tacoma Police Department Police Chief, David Brame Sr., were divorcing, living apart, and David had the kids for weekend visitation. While sitting sideways in an open-doored car, he pulled her head down towards his lap, shot her in the head, and immediately shot himself in the head as well. There's a library-worth more of information because of the two Washington State Patrol investigations, the Washington Association of Sheriff's and Police Chief's investigation, the FBI inquiry, the competing, prolific newspaper agencies and their investigative reporters, an outspoken Citizens Panel, a muliti-disciplinary committee of 40 individuals assigned and volunteering to study the tragedy and bring forth living fruit from the two deaths, the passing of state wide laws, the creation of the most comprehensively written officer-involved domestic violence policy in the country, probing websites, an impending $75M lawsuit against the city, more lawsuits, seeking national legislation, experts consulting across the country, writing, publishing, conferencing, preparing... and oh so much more. The news went to Europe, Australia, South America, Japan, and just about every place on the globe with a connected press - Not just because Crystal's soon-to-be ex was the chief.
It was because every extra obstacle to safety suffered by the victims of officer involved dv was intensified and now oh-so public.
No one paid attention when she said he choked me.
No one came to her to help when she said he was threatening her life.
She was begging for a restraining order.
On public record she said that he held a gun to her head - told her that

accidents happens.
It was because after the deaths it was uncovered how many people, and how high up the power-ladder, his rape of a woman was known before his "rise" to chief.
It was because it was learned after his murder and suicide that his psych testing showed that he really should have never been allowed to become a police officer at all.
It was because of how the 911 dispatcher responded to Crystal's call just two weeks before her death, once they knew who she was reporting - the chief and an assistant chief..
It was her call from a phone booth the night before her death that
she was afraid for her personal safety
more now
than ever before.

- left on a voice mail.

It was because while the city closed their eyes, she said that other high ranking police officials were actually HELPING her husband to intimidate and track her, call her and document her calls.
Was her phone tapped? She tried to find out.
Was her food poisoned? She was almost sure.

How much more should I go on?

The story does.

This is all still in progress as the preparation for trial begins.

[OH] Slain cop's wife Niema's mother: Don't let her die in vain

Never Forgetting

Niema Latrese Thompson Blake

[SEE COMMENTS]

Mother Searches For Answers In Daughter's Death

March 9, 2005
WHIOTV.com.

DAYTON, Ohio -- A grieving mother made an emotional plea for help two weeks after her daughter was shot to death inside her home.

On Wednesday morning, Nevada Blake asked Dayton City Commissioners not to let her daughter die in vain. Niema Thompson-Blake, 30, died on Feb. 19 after police said she was shot by her husband, Dayton police officer Michael Blake.

Nevada Blake believes Michael Blake murdered her daughter. She knows that city commissioners did not have the answers but she hopes they will put pressure on those who do.

Nevada Blake said she is frustrated with the lack of action in the two weeks since her daughter's death.

Michael Blake was handcuffed by officers at the scene and taken in for questioning. However, he was never arrested and so far county prosecutors have not filed any charges in the case.

Sources told NewsCenter 7 that Michael Blake claimed his wife came at him with a butcher knife. Nevada Blake said that is not the case and said her daughter was a loving mother of three children.

Nevada Blake also claimed that Michael Blake called two other people before he called police dispatchers. She said her daughter's marriage turned violent before her death.

Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin was the only city leader who responded to Blake's plea. She said the city would do what it supposed to be done in this type of matter.

Police Chief Julian Davis referred questions to the prosecutor's office. Authorities said prosecutors met once with detectives to review the case. It is possible that investigators may come back with new information or ask for charges to be approved.

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[MI] I-SPY Trooper Tuer. Has assaulting women (or has shooting a Black man in the back) made him a better cop?

...TUER SAID HE WILL BECOME A BETTER POLICE OFFICER BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERIENCE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAW...

I recently noticed that Trooper Tuer is back on the roads here:

MICHIGAN NEWS BRIEFS: ACCIDENT
Detroit Free Press (MI)
CECIL ANGEL
January 5, 2005
Boy, 14, killed as he walked across I-96 A 14-year-old boy was struck and killed Tuesday as he and another youth tried to walk across a Detroit freeway, Michigan State Police said. The accident occurred at 6:11 p.m. as the boys walked north across the local and express lanes of westbound I-96 near Schoolcraft, Trooper Craig Tuer said...

Is this the kind of self-training to be a better law enforcement officer the kind of training that the Michigan State Patrol ACCEPTS? Who's in charge? THAT's who is responsible!:

Man shot by police faces term
Saginaw News (MI) -
DARRYL Q. TUCKER
October 1, 1999
...A 20-year-old Saginaw man faces sentencing stemming from a June 1997 incident in which a police officer shot him after pulling him over because his muffler was loud and he wasn't wearing a seat belt... Investigators said [Larry L.] Polk struggled with [Trooper Craig] Tuer for control of his weapon. Polk previously said the trooper shot him in the back as he tried to flee. The shooting created community support for Polk, despite Prosecutor Michael D. Thomas' ruling that the shooting was justified... The 30-year-old Tuer, a five-year veteran of the Bridgeport Post, has said he attempted to stop Polk's car because the occupants were not wearing seat belts and it sounded as though the auto didn't have a muffler.

City man accuses troopers of conspiracy, torture
Saginaw News (MI)
DAVID OSBORN
June 28, 2000
A Saginaw man is alleging in a federal lawsuit that state police troopers conspired against him and tortured him by sticking their fingers in his bullet wounds. Larry L. Polk Jr., 21, claims Troopers Craig Tuer and Patrick L. Sharkey concocted a cover-up plot after Tuer shot him... The troopers felt his wounds so they could provide investigators with matching stories, Polk says in the suit... Polk, Sharkey and Tuer were unavailable for comment... Tuer and Sharkey rolled Polk from his stomach to his side and back to his stomach, the suit says. The troopers then "moved (Polk's) clothing and located and probed (Polk's) wounds with their fingers," the suit claims. The troopers were trying to determine the path of the bullet or bullets "to choreograph a false, yet plausible excuse for the use of deadly force," the suit contends. Sharkey, a former emergency medical technician, testified at a 1997 court hearing that he rolled Polk over to check his wounds and determine the path of the bullet. Sharkey said he saw a small hole in POLK'S LOWER *BACK* and felt a marble-size bulge on his right side.

Trooper faces charges
Saginaw News (MI)
February 12, 2004
A state trooper from the Bridgeport Post faces charges that he slapped a woman outside a Saginaw bar. Saginaw County prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Craig J. Tuer of Vassar, charging him with disturbing the peace and assault and battery Jan. 23 outside White's Bar, 2609 State. A woman at the bar said Tuer slapped her around 2:30 a.m. Police have said they did not know how Tuer knew the woman or what triggered the altercation... In 1997, TUER SHOT AN 18-YEAR-OLD BLACK SAGINAW MAN IN THE *HIP* during a struggle after a traffic stop. The incident touched off protests from black leaders, but Prosecutor Michael D. Thomas ruled that the shooting was in self-defense and did not charge Tuer in the incident.

Bar spat trial starts
Saginaw News (MI)
DARRYL Q. TUCKER
April 22, 2004
Shortly after arriving at White's Bar in January, off-duty State Police Trooper Craig J. Tuer had a physical altercation with his girlfriend, a prosecutor says. When an employee asked him to leave, Tuer refused, even after she threatened to call police, Assistant Prosecutor Andy Coulouris told a jury of three men and four women... "Tuer took a fist to (bar employee) Craig Young," Coulouris said during his opening statement. At that point, a melee erupted inside, he said. When Tuer finally left the establishment, 2609 State, HE ASSAULTED JESSICA RANGEL, ALSO AN EMPLOYEE, IN FRONT OF SAGINAW POLICE OFFICER MATT GEROW, Coulouris said. Prosecutors have charged Tuer, 35, of Vassar with disturbing the peace or in the alternative assault and battery against Young, and a separate count of assault and battery of Rangel... He and his girlfriend, Sonia Gouine, and some of their friends arrived at the bar after attending a Kid Rock concert, Coulouris said. After the altercation with Gouine, Tuer threw Young against a wall inside the small bar, he said. "At that point, everything went wild," Coulouris said. A few seconds later, someone removed Tuer from the bar, he said. While outside, Tuer saw Gerow and talked to him. Rangel then approached and said something to Tuer that made him angry, Coulouris told the jury. "IN FRONT OF AN ON-DUTY POLICE OFFICER, HE REACHED ACROSS THE CAR AND SLAPPED JESSICA," THE PROSECUTOR SAID. " TUER STRUCK HER AGAIN WHILE SHE WAS ON THE HOOD OF THE PATROL CAR"...

State trooper faces jail
Saginaw News (MI)
SCOTT DAVIS
April 24, 2004
A jury has found a state police trooper guilty of assaulting a bar employee when a night of revelry turned raucous. State Police Trooper Craig J. Tuer faces up to 93 days in jail for assault and battery when he is sentenced before Saginaw County District Judge Darnell Jackson. A sentencing date is not set... "He reminded (the employee) who he was," [Prosecutor Andy] Coulouris said. "It's futile to call the cops because 'I'm a cop'"... In the lot, Saginaw Police Officer Matt Gerow pulled up in his squad car, and Tuer said he briefly talked to him. Tuer said he then struck Rangel with a police-taught self-defense move when she approached him and his girlfriend in a threatening manner. Gerow, however, testified Rangel was not physically threatening Tuer when he struck her twice...

Suspended officer found guilty
Saginaw News (MI)
DARRYL Q. TUCKER
June 4, 2004
A judge has sentenced suspended State Police Trooper Craig J. Tuer to two months of house arrest for assaulting a bar employee at a West Side Saginaw bar in January. Saginaw County District Judge Darnell Jackson today ordered Tuer, 35, to serve six months of probation, with the first two months on electronic monitoring, for assault and battery. A six-member jury deliberated about 90 minutes before convicting Tuer . Jurors found Tuer, who is assigned to the Bridgeport Post, innocent of another count of disturbing the peace, or in the alternative assault and battery, against a second employee, Craig Young. "I'm sorry the incident took place," said Tuer, dressed in a navy blue double-breasted suit. "I have remorse." Tuer said he will become a better police officer because of his experience on the other side of the law. Jackson also ordered Tuer to pay $540 in fees and fines and $25 in restitution and to attend anger management counseling... Tuer will remain under unpaid suspension until state police administrators conclude an internal investigation and determine what sanctions he should receive...

[MI] After rifle threat deputy's wife Cathleen Muma fights back

...In her protection request against [Chief] Long, [Cathleen] Muma alleged the chief told her she had to better start putting "God and family first" in her life and told her she needed to be a "better wife" to her husband...

Woman gets protection order against husband
She says deputy has been abusive
Record-Eagle
By IAN C. STOREY
December 11, 2004
A Manton woman sought personal protection orders against her sheriff's deputy husband and Manton's chief of police. Cathleen Muma, 35, filed protection requests late Wednesday against her husband, Phillip, a deputy with the Wexford County Sheriff's office, and Manton Police Chief Michael Long, a friend of the family. Grand Traverse County Probate Judge David L. Stowe denied the ex-parte request against Long, but granted an order against Phillip Muma, according to 13th Circuit Court records. In the protection request against her husband, Cathleen Muma said he had been abusive in the past but became more aggressive after he had brain surgery in August. In her statement to the court, Muma said on Nov. 5 her husband threatened her with a loaded rifle at the couple's home after she returned from a work trip to Haiti. The next day, she said she fled to a safe house. The alleged domestic problems led to a precautionary lockdown of Manton High School on Monday, after Muma removed her children and told school officials her husband had made threats. In her protection request against Long, Muma alleged the chief told her she had to better start putting "God and family first" in her life and told her she needed to be a "better wife" to her husband. Muma said in the request she was "intimidated" by the police chief giving her orders to run her life. Muma said Long used his position to "gain control" over her work relationships and "threatened" to take her children. But Long said he never threatened Muma and called her place of employment to find out information about the school situation. "The whole thing is sad, but it really didn't have to be that way," he said. "What she says about me is totally untrue. I am bewildered, to be honest with you. "I knew both of them as friends until recently. I think that everybody knows Phil is not like that." Long said he was with Phillip Muma when the lockdown at the school occurred and said he didn't believe Muma posed a danger to anyone. "Two sides of the story is what we are all looking for in the first place, and some things that were said were not true," he said. "I think people are starting to learn the truth of what really happened." [Source]