Woman gunned down in Wausau
WAUSAU — Wausau police say a woman was shot to death outside the senior housing center where she worked, and an ex-boyfriend has been jailed in the shooting.
Police said 39-year-old Robin Dunwoody of Weston was shot twice with a shotgun after the man confronted her as she was leaving Wausau Manor at about 6 a.m. Saturday.
Deputy Police Chief Bryan Hilts said co-workers told police the 54-year-old man approached Dunwoody and tried to put her in the trunk of his car. Then, when the co-workers intervened, he pulled a shotgun from the car and shot Dunwoody, also pointing it at the co-workers before driving away.
Portage County sheriff’s deputies apprehended him about an hour later in Hull Township north of Stevens Point.
The man, from Portage County's Dewey Township, is jailed pending formal charges.

Jan 5, 2009 at 4:32 p.m.
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janesvillecomments- WELL SAID.
Jan 5, 2009 at 3:43 p.m.
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SpongeBob is getting cancelled? My thoughts and prayers are going out to you!!
Jan 5, 2009 at 12:31 a.m.
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I always thought the best way to prevent hijacking of aircraft was to give everyone on the plane a 1 shot, 1 use pistol loaded with shot too small to break a window but big enough to rip off skin and rupture eyes, penatrate clothes. Majority would rule. Any high jacker would get a whole bunch of leaks.
The same idea would apply to all citizens, without the small shot. It would take a whole lot more guts, stupidity avtually, to commit a crime if you knew that EVERYONE was packing a gun. Make it a law to have a gun on your person if you are outside of your home.
Jan 4, 2009 at 11:55 p.m.
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Warm, you may have been joking about giving abused women all the guns, but I'd accept as a start, limiting concealed carry permits being issued to abused women or senior citizens or the handicapped who have been threatened with or victimized by violent crime. Once the cretins in Madison saw that gunfights weren't erupting on the streets with those groups of potential victims having the right to arm, they might see the light of day, or be replaced by the voters who did, and allow all law-abiding citizens to be as well armed as the pot, meth, heroin and cocaine pushers.
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The numerous states which went from no permits to signed laws allowing "shall issue" concealed carry permits have all seen decreases in violent crime (contray to thekid3477's typical "I'm afraid of guns" or "I prefer the state to have all guns - it worked so well in Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union" attitude about allowing law-abiding citizens the right to protect themselves out in public).
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We aren't awash with refugees from Minnesota, Iowa, or Michigan fleeing the excessive gun violence we've all read about breaking out in those states with concealed carry permits. We do seem to have a problem with gang-bangers from Illinois coming north and having shootouts - but then Illinois politicans are even more anti-gun than our Wisconsin hoplophobes. Perhaps if Mayor Daley would pull his head out from where the sun doesn't shine and promote allowing law-abiding FIBs to get carry permits, the surviving drug peddlers would learn not to pull guns on people.
Jan 4, 2009 at 7:54 p.m.
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Shopierehuh:
Well said.
Jan 4, 2009 at 1:05 p.m.
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Thanks for the advice, Pwrtrip.
Jan 4, 2009 at 12:01 p.m.
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Primer: You know what I meant!
Jan 4, 2009 at noon
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See, Mr. SpongeBob, I can be just as crude and lewd as the rest of them. By the way, I heard you were getting canceled.
Jan 4, 2009 at 11:44 a.m.
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"popular drick"?
Jan 4, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.
Jan 4, 2009 at 11:06 a.m.
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No doubt people, lighten up. Unless you are new to these blogs you know that the first couple of posts might be topic related, then the remainder tend to focus more on the bloggers ribbing one another. It's nothing new so get used to it. There will always be knobs who posts jokes that don't apply, SarahB and her "prayers" going out to everything with a pulse and wwr1961 who knows nothing about nothing. But that's what makes this site great. What is funny to me is that one of the more important guidelines to these blogs is to "be nice" and "clean". Yet, at the bottom of this page (at least for the momment) while I'm typing this is an advertisement for "Popular Prick - the #1 Guide to Social Skills".
My prayers go out to Angus and his staff.
Jan 4, 2009 at 10:51 a.m.
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I wonder what reason this guy gives for doing something like this.
Jan 4, 2009 at 9:33 a.m.
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good question janesvillecomments. then we might have 2 or 3 deaths/injuries in this situation and more to blog about. more guns is not the answer.
Jan 4, 2009 at 8:29 a.m.
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Irishlady - you are 'really' praying for the family? How many times is that saying posted? It is almost cliche. I really doubt you are saying prayers for the family.
Eitherway, this is a sad deal. Some bum took the life of a woman who probably didn't have it coming. It is unfortunate.
Jan 4, 2009 at 7:12 a.m.
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The lack of compassion by certain posters here is pitiful and I am glad the option to remove comment is offered on this site. "IMO"Some people have no morals when it comes to the feelings for others some just are heartless disrespectful idiots that had no role models of any value that raised them, some just dont understand this could happen to them. Most posters in here I find to be fair and compassionate, The select few heartless ones usually have their comments removed and it is usually the same names. I give my prayers to the family.
Jan 4, 2009 at 1:45 a.m.
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Actually, joking about a brutal murder like this is not humor in any form. It simply shows a lack of compassion for others, a lack of class, a lack of upbringing and perhaps a lack of intelligence. It's just foul.
Jan 4, 2009 at 12:52 a.m.
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Thanks to Senator Risser and Governor Doyle, only the nutjob was armed. I wonder if the victim or any of her co-workers would have applied for a concealed carry permit if the Democratic People's Republic of Wisconsin hadn't blocked the law 3 times?
Jan 3, 2009 at 10:50 p.m.
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It's called dark humor and is needed for some people. I was able to find the humor in the comments posted and actually laughed out loud.
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Does that mean I have no compassion? Of course not. My first thought after reading the article (before scrolling down to the comments) was "How terrible!"
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This was a very tragic case for the lady (and her friends and family) and very terrifying for the co-workers, I'm sure. However, I can still find time to laugh.
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I hope this guy gets the max sentence available.
Jan 3, 2009 at 9:52 p.m.
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I'm reading this article and thinking: "How horrifying for that woman and those co-workers!" and a couple of idiots posting here think this incident is funny. Give me a break! My prayers go out to the victim, her family and friends, and the co-workers.
Jan 3, 2009 at 9:25 p.m.
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Posting anonymous sick jokes like that is nothing but a special form of cowardice. If you wouldn't sign your real name to your comment - then keep it off the web. A person took a life today - take it seriously you anonymous cowards.
Jan 3, 2009 at 9:04 p.m.
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My thoughts and prayers are with her family.
Jan 3, 2009 at 9:03 p.m.
Jan 3, 2009 at 8:57 p.m.
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Pwrtrip: Do you really think your idiotic statement is the least bit funny? What is wrong with you?
Jan 3, 2009 at 7:26 p.m.
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is she any relation to the Dunwoody that made history by becoming the first woman in the Army to aquire the 4 star general position??
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our condolances to the family
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