Little did Lt. Wayne Kropidlowski and the rest of the Portage County Sheriff’s Office know, their request would trigger an investigation that would expose a messy and deceitful family tree leaving authorities questioning what really happened on a rural property so many years ago.
On August 20, 1999, two women and a toddler were last seen at a babysitter’s on the outskirts of Nekoosa, Wisconsin, but it would take years for an investigation to begin.
It all started with a 9-1-1 call. Norman and Cindy Jones lived in a quiet Wausau neighborhood on the city’s west side with their three kids who were four, seven, and eight at the time.
This is Forgotten: Wisconsin Cold Cases. Every month we'll take you back to the moment a person around northcentral Wisconsin went missing, and take a deeper look into these often-forgotten cases and people.
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