State v. Dehart

On or about November 6, 1935, an abandoned lumbering shack in the town of Schoepke, Oneida county, Wisconsin, burned down. The sheriff investigated and discovered in the ruins the badly burned torso of a human being, the head and lower extremities being missing. Later fragments of skull and other bones were discovered. The body was buried and there was no further investigation at that time. About six years later, defendant was in the Forest county jail awaiting trial on a charge of misdemeanor. The sheriff and district attorney of Oneida county communicated with him there, and accused him of…