(revised) The Unsolved Murder of Barbara Blackstone, Remembering Judge Roemer, & more

Julie Mecikalski and Eva share memories working together at The Messenger of Juneau County - detailing their time spent looking into the 1987 unsolved murder of Barbara Blackstone.
As for Barbara, the woman who once called Juneau County home, her untimely and tragic death, remains unsolved. Reports state that on the afternoon of July 9, 1987, Barbara stopped at the gas station near the Interstate 90 in Lyndon Station. While there she filled up her car and a five gallon gas can for her lawn tractor. She and her husband, Tom, were planning a picnic and she was mowing an area of their property in preparation for the event. Tom had reportedly been at work that afternoon and when he arrived home in the early evening, he found the car with the keys still in the ignition. The car was parked by a shed. Barbara was nowhere to be found. Later that evening he phoned the Juneau County Sheriff's Office and filed a report.
It was nearly a month later Barbara was finally found. On August 4, her body was found southwest of Blanchardville, about two miles out, in some woods. She was found by a hunter on a scouting trek. Her body was in a state of decomposition. Dental records were relied on for a positive identification. According to news reports at the time, an autopsy report stated that she had been dead for about 25 to 30 days before her body was discovered. A confusing twist to her death was her body was found within 10 miles from the farm where she grew up, more than an hour's drive from her residence in Juneau County..
Thankfully- Chewed Up and Spat Back Out blog entries on the Unsolved Murder of Barbara Blackstone - chewedupandspat......
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For information on the $25k reward Mark Andreessen issued in 2009 for information leading to justice being served - www.twincities....
Facebook Book Group in Honor of Barbara Blackstone:
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Remembering Judge John Roemer -27 News Madison's coverage www.wkow.com/n....