1-year prison sentence ends 3-county odyssey with murdered man's body in car

Marking the top of an episode that spanned three counties and {that a} Dane County choose mentioned “virtually seems like a foul script for a film,” a Hartland girl who had a murdered man’s physique in her automobile and later pointed a gun at Dane County sheriff’s deputies was sentenced Tuesday to a 12 months in jail.

Angelina J. Ruesch, 29, pleaded responsible to hiding a corpse and pointing a firearm at a police officer earlier than Circuit Decide Josann Reynolds sentenced her to concurrent yearlong jail sentences, to be adopted by two years of prolonged supervision.

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The sentences, although, would run after Ruesch finishes time she is already serving for convictions in Milwaukee and Jefferson counties, each for incidents that have been all a part of the identical sequence of occasions that started with the killing of a Kaukauna man at a Milwaukee house on Jan. 17, 2022.

In all, it means Ruesch will likely be in jail for practically two years, adopted by 4 years of prolonged supervision.

“This can be a very disturbing case on so many ranges,” Reynolds mentioned earlier than she sentenced Ruesch.

A prison criticism states that deputies have been requested to verify on a girl appearing surprisingly at a gasoline station in Cambridge who matched the outline of somebody who had fled from a visitors cease in Jefferson County.

The lady’s automobile was discovered within the car parking zone of the Piggly Wiggly grocery retailer. The lady was reported to be at a close-by house, the place she wound up within the storage pointing a gun at two deputies. She refused to drop the gun and fought the deputies, telling them to shoot her, the criticism states.

A Milwaukee police detective instructed Dane and Jefferson county authorities that he believed a physique was within the girl’s automobile. The physique of Adam R. McCormick, 34, was discovered underneath blankets within the again seat. An post-mortem discovered he had been shot within the chest.

A prison criticism filed in Milwaukee County states McCormick was shot at an condo constructing in Milwaukee, then carried off in a automobile. Mack D. Chambliss, 48, of Milwaukee, was discovered responsible of first-degree reckless murder and different prices within the killing following a trial in October. He was sentenced final month to 52 years in jail.

Ruesch pleaded responsible in Milwaukee County in November to aiding a felon for her function in McCormick’s demise. She additionally pleaded responsible in December in Jefferson County to fleeing police.

In courtroom, Ruesch’s lawyer, Crystal Vera, argued that Ruesch ought to be sentenced to 18 months in jail to run concurrently to all different sentences she is serving. Ruesch was coerced into driving McCormick’s physique away from Milwaukee, Vera mentioned. When Ruesch pointed the gun on the Dane County deputies, Vera mentioned, she was so out of her thoughts on medicine that she thought she was pointing the gun at herself.

“In my protection, I used to be making an attempt to take my very own life,” Ruesch instructed Reynolds earlier. “I do not recall pointing the gun at anybody however myself.”

Vera mentioned Ruesch had been adopted from Milwaukee by somebody who solely left her after she was stopped by a deputy in Jefferson County.

Nonetheless, Reynolds questioned why Ruesch did not keep put as soon as that visitors cease occurred, why she did not keep together with her automobile on the Piggly Wiggly and why she was carrying round a loaded handgun.

“As a result of I used to be very scared,” Ruesch responded.