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Ann Nelson Murder Case - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 23rd Feb, 2016 - 12:30am
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Ann Nelson Murder Case
Drifter charged with murder of real estate agent
Original Post Date: 21st Mar, 2008 - 2:06pm
This is absolutely TERRIBLE! I really feel for this poor woman and the pain she went through (And she was an elderly person!) Hope this guy gets what he deserves in jail!
QUOTE JEFFERSON — A convicted sex offender and transient was charged Thursday with killing a Cambridge real estate agent Tuesday by beating her with a fireplace poker, choking her with her own scarf and setting a fire to destroy evidence. James A. Hole, 34, whose last address was an apartment he shared in Brookfield, Ill., was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, arson and burglary with intent to commit sexual assault in Jefferson County Circuit Court. He is accused of killing Ann Nelson, 71, a real estate agent for RE/MAX, in the bedroom of a home near Lake Ripley, about 25 miles east of Madison, after seeing her name on a for-sale sign and calling her on his cell phone to ask to see the property. According to the criminal complaint filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court, Hole told investigators he became upset when Nelson questioned why he was looking at a home he wouldn't buy. He said he beat her with a fireplace poker and choked her, then left the home. He said he then returned to destroy evidence — Nelson was still conscious, he said — lit a box of tissues on fire to burn the bed and closed the door. An autopsy found Nelson, who was found in the bedroom Tuesday night, died of smoke inhalation and had suffered severe blunt-force trauma to the head, with at least nine lacerations, according to the complaint. District Attorney David Wambach wouldn't say whether Nelson had been sexually assaulted. "But that was his intent, at least at the time he entered the room," Wambach said… Source 7f
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