Douglas Uhde is the 56-year-old felon accused of murdering former judge John Roemer.
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Douglas Uhde is the 56-year-old felon who is accused of murdering retired Wisconsin Judge John Roemer in his own home. Online records show that Douglas Keith Uhde, also known as Doug Uhde and Douglas K. Uhde most recently lived in Saint Helen, Michigan, but had previous Wisconsin addresses in Adams, Marshfield, and Friendship, Wisconsin. Heavy initially confirmed the suspect’s name through a law enforcement source. Douglas Uhde was then named as the suspect in a news release by the state Department of Justice.
“Following failed attempts to negotiate with Douglas K. Uhde, age fifty-six, who was in the home, at approximately 10:17 a.m. the Juneau County Special Tactics and Response Team entered the residence and located retired Judge John Roemer, a sixty-eight-year-old male, deceased,” the DOJ wrote. “Uhde was located in the basement with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Law enforcement began life-saving measures, and Uhde was transported to a medical facility and remains in critical condition. A firearm was recovered at the scene.”
Uhde had multiple Facebook pages. On several of them, he posted pro-Trump memes and graphics, shared posts against gun confiscation. One showed Hillary Clinton with duct tape over her mouth. According to WISN-TV, Roemer was “zip-tied to a chair and fatally shot.” Uhde had a hit list that also included Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the television station reported. Roemer was sued in court in 2020 by the Evers’ administration’s Department of Children and Families. That’s his most recent Wisconsin court case.
“Make America great again, duct tape this lying b****’s mouth shut,” read a graphic Uhde shared in October 2016 that showed Hillary Clinton with duct tape over her mouth. His nephew confirmed to Heavy that the page belonged to the 56-year-old Douglas Uhde with a Wisconsin criminal history. Facebook
In another post, Uhde advocated voting for Trump because he is not controlled by government. “Trump is my president,” read another graphic he shared. Facebook
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He is a convicted felon, with a criminal history in Texas and Wisconsin, but his criminal cases date back years, and there is no obvious link between Uhde and Roemer. Uhde was most recently in court in 2020 on an public assistance benefits case, online court records show. Roemer’s name is not listed on any court cases in Wisconsin’s online system. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a news conference that Uhde targeted Roemer in the retired judge’s own home in the Town Lisbon, Wisconsin, near Mauston, before shooting himself. He had a list of other targets, the AG confirmed, but he did not name them. The suspect’s motive was anger over the criminal justice system and court cases, the attorney general said in a news conference, without being more specific. Heavy confirmed the judge’s name with a law enforcement source. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel also reported that Roemer was the victim in the June 3, 2022, early morning slaying. Here’s what you need to know:
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A man who lives at the Saint Helen, Michigan, home that comes up as Uhde’s last address in online records (and where Uhde is registered to vote) told Heavy in an interview that Uhde left there about four years ago after he got in a car accident and had his probation revoked as a result. The man, a military veteran, said Uhde grew up in Michigan with his wife’s father. He provided his name but did not want it printed. He said Uhde also had family “down South.”
While Uhde lived in Michigan, he worked in “some factory up here,” the man said. Uhde then got into the car accident and lost his job when he missed three shifts in a row. He last knew that he was “going somewhere to stay with family.” (Uhde’s nephew told Heavy that Uhde lived with him for a time in Arkansas.)
Uhde had moved to Michigan when he got out of prison. The man described Uhde as a “pretty lonely dude” without kids or wife, who had “never had a long-term relationship.” He thought that was largely because Uhde was “in prison for a long time,” into his 50s. “He was very alone,” he said. Asked if Uhde was in a militia, the man said that Uhde “knew how to hunt, fish, make a fire” but that he did not see him do anything “really militia-related.
