Old Dogs, Murderers, and Keeping Up With Pond Scum.

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Good Evening-
After a long, hot and humid day, I am thinking of this?


What I read:  (from HERE).
 
To even see this picture literally makes my skin crawl.
Photo taken by H. Marc. Larsen

OCONTO — In the months before his estranged wife's death, Randall Staeven routinely called his children "pigs," smashed a stool into the front of a stove, smacked the family cat with the back of his hand and had one child so frightened of him that she would hide in the basement when she was home alone with him, according to documents filed with the Oconto County clerk of courts office.

"The dogs shake when he is around them," Christine Staeven wrote when filing for one of two court injunctions she sought against him.

"He goes from spanking the kids and slams his fists together when we are arguing and I am afraid of what he will do," she wrote to the court in January 2009. "I don't know how far he will go."

Four months later, Christine Staeven, 40, was dead and her house set afire. Their 11-year-old daughter helped her brothers, ages 7 and 3, escape to safety.

Randall Staeven, 50, of Pulaski is charged with first-degree murder, arson, mutilating a corpse and three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.

He made his initial appearance Friday before Oconto County Judge Michael Judge, who set bond at $750,000. Staeven did not have a lawyer, so Judge scheduled a continuance for Thursday.

As special prosecutor Vince Biskupic read the charges aloud, Staeven listened with his head down, his shoulders heaving slightly as he breathed.

Judge ordered the usual no-contact provisions as part of the bond, but at Biskupic's request, he also imposed the same order even if Staeven doesn't post bond: no contact with children or any of the witnesses named in the five-page criminal complaint.

Staeven, who appeared in court in jeans, a T-shirt, handcuffs and leg shackles, declined to argue the bond amount, saying, "No, I don't have an attorney. I won't say anything."

In January 2009, Christine Staeven twice filed injunctions against her husband. She withdrew the first, saying they were getting help for their problems. The second, which she filed about two weeks later, was dismissed at Randall Staeven's request a week after his wife's death.

The final months of her life weren't the only time the couple had problems in their 10-year marriage, according to court documents. She had filed for divorce from him twice, once in 2006 and again in 2009. She withdrew the 2006 action; the 2009 action was still in the court system at the time of her death.

In 2002, Randall Staeven was charged with disorderly conduct after throwing and breaking household items, hitting his wife three times in the head and tearing the phones off the wall so she couldn't call the police, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.

He pleaded no contest in the case, but the court accepted a deferred prosecution agreement that required him to undergo anger management classes for a year.

Investigators say the fire to their home at 740 Jaworski Road in the town of Chase on May 14, 2009, had started in three separate places, indicating it was intentional. Christine Staeven had no trace of soot in her lungs, indicating she was dead before the fire was set, but her body was so badly burned that signs of injury would have been destroyed, the criminal complaint said.

A witness reported seeing Randall Staeven's SUV leaving the scene about an hour before the fire was discovered. Two witnesses — including Randall Staeven's nephew — reported that Staeven told them four days before the fire that he would rather see his wife dead and the house burned down before losing the house to her in the divorce.

Despite those witness statements, state and Oconto County investigators proceeded slowly and convened a John Doe hearing to gather evidence in the case. John Doe hearings, usually conducted in secret, allow investigators to question witnesses under oath in the presence of a judge. This hearing was conducted as recently as two weeks ago, according to the criminal complaint.

Neither Biskupic nor Oconto County Sheriff's Department investigator Darren Laskowski would comment Friday on the length of the investigation.

Biskupic said he was concerned about giving out too much information and then making it difficult to find an impartial jury.

Biskupic, former U.S. attorney who is in private practice in Appleton, said he is serving as special prosecutor because the county's district attorney, Jay Conley, has been elected circuit court judge and takes on his new duties next week.

Still another article: (from HERE)- states the following.
"Randall Staeven is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, arson and mutilating a corpse and three counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.

Oconto County Judge Michael Judge set Staeven’s bond at $750,000. Staeven also is prohibited from having any contact with relatives and witnesses named in the criminal complaint filed against him."

What I know:

1.
Randy Staevens killed our dog, Homey. He was my daughter Jenne's first dog, and her very best friend. Homey was a bright and wonderful dog. Once he had even brought in our cat which had been hit by a car. I was in the kitchen baking bread and noticed him coming up the driveway with 'something' in his mouth...
Suffering terribly, this dog lay down next to TC after laying her near his kennel. Ultimately Jim Stachura (a wonderful neighbor) was called and quickly came to put TC out of her misery.
Hell, almost everyone out in the boonies of Pulaski are wonderful neighbors.  I made many lifelong friends there, and keep in touch with them all.

2.
Jay Connelly should never have been put in as a judge.
He is a narrow~minded and easily bought prosecutor at best.
When my daughter Roberta was raped and almost bled to death, he would not even charge the man responsible. Claiming the word "rape" was not even in the the police filed statements.
It was. As a matter of fact, it was stated quite clearly in the very first paragraph.
I pointed this out to him and he shrugged. Said perp had tons of money... (And we ALL know how that goes). I paid over 3 grand, even with insurance, for the lifesaving surgery she needed. She almost bled out in my car.

3.
If you read the comments on either of the stories from the Green Bay Press Gazette articles you will see some 'grandma' person writing and proclaiming poor Staeven's innocence. "So there fore I believe that Randy is innocent and I personally know him myself and he is nothing like a monster..."
She is a rude and obnoxious woman who claims he was framed. (The mere thought of it boggles my mind)!

4.
Also referred to in the comments here is a statement from one of his coworkers, regarding his other half, one Diane Buffington.  She lived with Staevens while we lived on Jaworski Rd.
She is a lying, cheating, violent (and miserable) person as well.
We had many problems with this 'couple'.
Surely they belonged together- Just not across the driveway from my family and myself!
This commenter believes that Diane just knew how to push his buttons.
Really? I call BS. and think of 'birds of a feather'
Something I taught my children of morals and self, "No one can make you do anything you do not want to."
I am left wondering whose buttons Dianne was pushing when she went after Jennifer, (12 or 14 at the time) and started beating her and slapping her?
...maybe she was just having a bad hair day.
Diane also threw a very large rock at my eldest daughter's leg. Zoe was on crutches at the time, and had a walking boot type cast on her fractured foot- (13 or 14 then). I had been changing out the gear housing on my old Simplicity and had came around the corner to see this happen. I  would have knocked her stupid had she not retreated to her house upon seeing me. Coward!

5.
Randy thought it quite entertaining when my then husband, Dennis, knocked on his door holding 3 broken arrows he had collected and confiscated them from Diane's kids- Dennis had broken them in pieces so these boys could not fire them at Homey anymore.
Of course, no one did anything...
I can only imagine how these boys ultimately turned out... I do not remember their names otherwise I would check the Wisconsin Court Search record.
But we do know that murderers begin, usually, with killing defenseless animals

6.
The "good old boy" network still is alive and flourishing in Oconto County. I can only hope and pray that Staevens gets put away for good, and rots in his own shit until God can figure out what to do with him.

7.
About one of the good old boys comes the attached letter I wrote. (There will be others receiving similar letters, including the deputies who showed up and did nothing time after time after time).
For those men- (And yes, they were ALL men), who listened, shrugged, snickered, and went on their merry way- preferring to look the other way...

My apologies that this was/is so long...
Congratulations if you read every word and clicked the articles and document too!
Know that there is much, still, to get off my chest here, so bear with me.

XOXO
Me

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