District Attorney Charges Wisconsin Woman In Threatening Repubs With Death – Doesn’t Tell Us Who She Really Is

Katherine Windels - Who Is She?

Here’s a really interesting sanitization of the arrest and charging of Katherine Windels of Cross Plains, Wisconsin, who stands accused of sending graphic death threats via e-mails to Wisconsin Republican lawmakers a few weeks ago, after their votes to neutralize the Teachers Union’s collective bargaining power.  From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel comes this take on the story.

 “Madison — A 26-year-old woman was charged Thursday with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts accusing her of making email threats against Wisconsin lawmakers during the height of the battle over Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill.

Katherine R. Windels of Cross Plains was named in a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.

According to the criminal complaint, Windels sent an email threat to state Sen. Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) on March 9, the day the Senate passed a measure to sharply curtail collective bargaining for public workers. Later that evening, she sent another email to 15 Republican legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), the complaint says…”

 And if you want a look at the actual criminal complaint, wherein you would expect to find some real meat and potatoes of the investigation, you can read this one.  It’s about putting bullets in legislators’ brains and bombs in their cars – and killing their families – pretty standard leftist political stuff.

 I spent twenty years in Colorado law enforcement work of one kind or another, including patrol operations, supervision, investigations and detentions – followed by two years with the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office as an investigator. 

 Any cop who did basic criminal investigations and studied Report-Writing 101 in the police academy will tell you that a complete criminal complaint includes the who, what, where, when, how and why of the crime.  Now, I’ve looked at both of these reports and I’ll be darned if I can find anything in them that tells us who Katherine Windels is, other than that she is a twenty-six year old female from Cross Plains, Wisconsin.

 The only answer as to “why” she made the death threats is that she was frustrated at what the Republican lawmakers did with their votes.  There is not a clue available for us to discern if she actually had a dog in the political fight – such as, is she a licensed teacher and union member?

Katherine’s photo above is a Dane County, Wisconsin, Sheriff’s Office mug shot.  No clue is given there as to whether that picture was taken as the result of this case, or if it’s from a prior charge.

 Now, if this lady is a teacher and union member, I can fully understand the newspaper, and a Democrat District Attorney wanting to withhold that information from the public.  Might make the union look bad, huh?  Might hurt the political cause.  Gotta get those darned Republicans out of office – or at least obstruct them, so they can’t do their jobs and balance that State budget.  Or maybe just scare them into surrender with death threats.

 Journalists, teachers, union members, editors and publishers lean overwhelmingly to the left.  And the fact that the D.A. is a Democrat speaks for itself as to his political views.  Is it possible that a leftist District Attorney would conceal the professional occupation, union affiliation and political motive for a left-leaning defendant in a death threats case – especially when the voters of Wisconsin have recently gotten a belly full of union protests, vandalism to the Capitol building, closure of their public schools and work stoppages by teachers who are supposed to be educating their children?

 Well, we don’t know who Katherine is, do we?  No one has told us, yet.  Maybe we’ll never find out who she is and what her link to the political issue might be.  I suppose, based upon the incomplete facts presented in the complaint, that the People of Wisconsin could conceivably take this to trial without a complete disclosure of why Windels really sent the bomb threats and threatened to put bullets into duly elected lawmakers’ heads. 

 Anyone else curious?  Who is this lady?  And why hasn’t the newspaper or the District Attorney’s Office told us who she is?