Man who killed daughter in '90 dies in fall from window
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Man who killed daughter in '90 dies in fall from window
Associated Press
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WAUSAU, Wis. - A man who killed his 11-year-old daughter and tried to
kill his wife in 1990 has died in a fall from his eighth-floor
apartment window two years after his conditional release from a state
mental hospital, police said.
Valentine T. Kuechenmeister, 59, died Tuesday after leaping out of the
window, said Wausau police Lt. Bill Kolb on Thursday.
Kuechenmeister, formerly of Chippewa Falls, lived alone, and Wausau
police had no previous contacts with him, Kolb said.
Kuechenmeister had been released in November 2004 from Mendota Mental
Health Institute at Madison.
He was charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of
his daughter and attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the
stabbing of his wife at their Chippewa Falls home in 1990. He also was
charged with battery of his 15-year-old daughter.
He told authorities voices called his name in the middle of the night,
urging him to kill his wife and children. The defense said
Kuechenmeister has been diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia.
He was committed to the state hospital in 1990 after Chippewa County
Circuit Judge Roderick Cameron found him not guilty by reason of
mental disease or defect and ruled he was not legally responsible for
the crime.
Information from: Leader-Telegram, http://www.leadertelegram.com/
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