Dakota Spotlight: True Crime & Cold Case Investigations
Sep 24, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 29 segments
Season 10 update: Nearly six decades after the murder of Christine Rothschild, an FBI agent and a Wisconsin Department of Justice investigator traveled to Linda Schulko to interview her over two days…
Linda SchulkoGuest
James WolnerHostMari Zorb-HansonHost
... an inquiry was made at, to UWPD about the seven murders between nineteen sixty-eight and nineteen eighty-two, beginning with Chris.
And, uh, it took a while, but Mark Lavocah, who is their public information officer and con- communications director, he responded with a, a short paragraph that I think was very interesting.
And it said, I quote, "I had a chance to share your email with a few folks at our department.
While the cases remain open, they are indeed cold cases, and we don't have a cold case unit.
We're also-- We've also had some retirements over the past few years in our detective bureau, and we've lost some institutional knowledge about the cases.
Simply put, we don't have any staff available who feel comfortable speaking public, publicly about the cases.
If you have some questions, you can pass them along, and I'd be happy to try and get them answered for you." So I ki- I think that kind of verifies the fact that, um, they, they don't have a cold case unit, or at least they didn't in, uh, twenty twenty-one-
Right.And the reason that that, that makes some importance in what I'm sa- stating is because every year on the anniversary of Kris's death, I do send a message to the current chief at UWPD, and currently it's Brent Plisch.
But anyways, uh, the bottom line on that is I do that every year because I just, I just wanna make sure they know that I'm still alive and I'm still-
And, and secondly, I think out of respect it's the least they can do is acknowledge the fact that it's been another year.
... an inquiry was made at, to UWPD about the seven murders between nineteen sixty-eight and nineteen eighty-two, beginning with Chris.
And, uh, it took a while, but Mark Lavocah, who is their public information officer and con- communications director, he responded with a, a short paragraph that I think was very interesting.
And it said, I quote, "I had a chance to share your email with a few folks at our department.
While the cases remain open, they are indeed cold cases, and we don't have a cold case unit.
We're also-- We've also had some retirements over the past few years in our detective bureau, and we've lost some institutional knowledge about the cases.
Simply put, we don't have any staff available who feel comfortable speaking public, publicly about the cases.
If you have some questions, you can pass them along, and I'd be happy to try and get them answered for you." So I ki- I think that kind of verifies the fact that, um, they, they don't have a cold case unit, or at least they didn't in, uh, twenty twenty-one-
Right.And the reason that that, that makes some importance in what I'm sa- stating is because every year on the anniversary of Kris's death, I do send a message to the current chief at UWPD, and currently it's Brent Plisch.
But anyways, uh, the bottom line on that is I do that every year because I just, I just wanna make sure they know that I'm still alive and I'm still-
And, and secondly, I think out of respect it's the least they can do is acknowledge the fact that it's been another year.
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