2003. Investigators made an extensive search through a rural farm and salvage yard on highway 21near irving after a tip lead them there. Police say the owner of the salvage yard was purks cousin. Police dogs were used to search the scene eventually finding bone and bone fragmentsalong with pieces of womens clothing. But the dna results werent a match to onkonskis. Kwwl spoke with onkonskis father during the time of the search in 2003. Jerry okonski the best thing that can happen is that sh but we dont expect that to happen, we think shes dead. And so the next best thing, you know, knowing that shes dead, is that we can find her body, find her remains and give her a and now sixteen years laterthe family awaking to a new possibility of finding out just what happened to cora purk is serving time in federal prison on unrelated drug and gun charges. He is set to be released from prison in april. Police have not give any indiciation as to whether hes still a suspect in the investigation. If
I dont blame you and summer is not going any where, high today 84. Storms are rolling in after 3 00. Some could be on the strong side. And we are wet again with spotty rain and storms wednesday through sunday and we are turning cooler toward the end of the week. Watching the cool front as it is moving through later today. It is a focus for showers and a few storms. We warm up quickly for today. Between now and noon, mostly sunny skies and increasing late morning and afternoon clouds. The temperatures are climbing up to the 70s. Cloudy and warm. We are watching the radar this afternoon as the rain and storms are developing near and along the cool front. When youre on the go, take the weather watch 12 forecast its free for your smartphone or tablet. Wisn 12 news time now is 4 32. Developing overnight, explosives found in a new jersey trash can. This is now the Third Community rocked by this type of crime in recent days. Tim, five suspicious devices were found overnight. One of them blew
Story coming up 3 first we need to get a check of the forecast. We have Storm Chances to start the week. Meteorologist Michael Schlesinger times things out for us. 3 30 second tease 15 seconds ahead forecast. Small craft advisory from 10am until 6pm today mostly sunny; late day evening storms. High 83 tonight storms early. Clearing late. Low 63tuesday mostly sunny. High 80 wednesday chance of storms, especially afternoon and ev Small Craft Advisory from 10am until 6pmtoday mostly sunny; late day evening storms. High 83tonight storms early. Clearing late. Low 63tuesday mostly sunny. High 80 wednesday chance of storms, especially afternoon and evening. High 78forecast. Small craft advisory from 10am until 6pmtoday mostly sunny; late day evening 3 3 all roads have been treated give yourself some extra time this our . Top story at 5a former teacher accused of stealing choir. Will make his first appearance in court today. Philip olson was fired from Brookfield Central High School in april o
Miller park, very ominous. I went through the storm not too long ago, the last time i talked to you guys, it was raining in buckets. We had to go down to 35 miles for our. Now we are on the backside of the storm looking at it as it is moving away. It will be going into lake michigan, and we did have some stronger storms of some of that reported golf ballsized hail. Lot of in wisconsin, especially in september. I can only imagine the kind of damage it will cause. The good news is that the storms are now moving into michigan, and the severe thunderstorm watch was canceled. Kathy get important weather updates while youre away from the t. V. With the wisn 12 news mobile app. Its free to download to your joyce a brookfield man is conned out of more than 70,000. Its part of an irs scam making its way around the country. 12 news nick bohr investigates hes live in the newsroom. Nick you just spoke with the victim. Nick i did, and he wants to share his story. He is a collegeeducated i. T. Consu
3 our . Top story at 5a former teacher accused of stealing thousands from a school choir. Makes his First Court Appearance today. Philip olson was fired from Brookfield Central High School in april of 2015. 2015. Cbs 58s julie parise is live in the newsroom. With a look ahead. Julie . Olson is charged with stealing over 47 thousand dollars over five years. The money allegedly choir for which olson was the director. Olson worked for Elmbrook School district for 23 years. This is a photo of him from his first year with the school back in 1992. Today hell face a judge in Waukesha County courtolson is accused of embezzlement. According to the criminal complaint, olson was involved with fundraising for the Choir Department and in dealing with parental donations to the school. The School District performed an internal investigation last year and fired olson, turning over all available information to the Brookfield Police department. According to documents olsen used the stolen money at casin