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Dead suspect cleared in Fr. Kunz 1998 homicide

March 5, 2019 Joseph M. Hanneman 3

A Wisconsin man with a violent history who might have been in the general area where Father Alfred J. Kunz was murdered in March 1998 has been ruled out as a suspect based on forensic […]

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Detectives hope trail won’t go cold in priest’s murder probe

August 22, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 11

As it enters its third decade, the investigation into the murder of Fr. Alfred Kunz is taking on a new urgency, police say. […]

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“I don’t know if they will ever reveal why he was murdered”

August 15, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 18

Some friends believed Fr. Kunz’s work as an exorcist or his investigations of sexual corruption in the priesthood must have been factors in his 1998 […]

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The unsolved murder of Fr. Alfred Kunz

August 8, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 16

Twenty years ago, a priest was found with his throat slit at a parish school in rural Wisconsin. Today, investigators are urging the public to […]

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