Victoria Lynn Prokopovitz

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Victoria Prokopovitz was past seen astatine the residence she shared with her hubby and her big son, successful the 5100 artifact of Kunesh Road successful the township of Pittsfield, Wisconsin connected April 25th, 2013 astir 10:00pm. She was discovered missing connected April 26th astir 4:00am. Victoria has ne'er been seen oregon heard from again.

Victoria is simply a achromatic woman, 5’6”, and 117 pounds. She has blondish brownish abbreviated hairsbreadth and brownish eyes. Her ears are pierced. She has scarring connected her abdomen and arms. She has a roseate tattoo connected her beforehand bosom country and a tattoo of a skunk connected her backmost hip. She besides has a mole connected the backmost of her neck.

She was past seen wearing grey stretchy pants, a achromatic and achromatic shirt, a achromatic coat, and achromatic shoes with a stacked heel. Victoria besides goes by Vicki.

She near down her purse with each of its contents, including her ID, money, cigarettes, and compartment phone. Victoria’s medicine disappeared with her. She has nary known recognition cards and nary vehicle. In fact, she has not driven a conveyance successful years and there’s nary grounds that anyone picked her up.

Her husband, James M. Prokopovitz says that helium went to furniture astir 10:00pm and that was the past clip helium saw her. When helium woke up astatine 4:00am, she was gone.

James said helium searched the area, but erstwhile helium couldn’t find her, helium went to work. He reported Victoria missing aboriginal that afternoon, erstwhile helium returned location from work. An extended hunt of the country was done and turned up nary motion of Victoria.

James told constabulary that helium thought she whitethorn person taken her ain life. According to her family, Victoria was doing good and was not depressed astatine the clip of her disappearance. Victoria had 2 termination attempts which were some astatine her home, but happened much than a decennary anterior to her disappearance.

In 2015 constabulary searched Victoria’s location and each the buildings connected the agrarian property. They seized photos, 7 computers, 12 hard drives, a compartment phone, fiscal documents, a rotation of tape, and different items. During this search, constabulary recovered humor grounds successful aggregate locations successful the house, including successful the bedroom, hallway, and kitchen.

Victoria’s household had been suspicious of James since soon aft helium reported her missing. Their suspicion started erstwhile they learned that their parent was missing aft receiving a telephone telephone from the police. James refused to enactment successful the galore searches for Victoria and kept insisting that she was “dead” and “never coming back.” James began seeing different woman, Kathryn Friday, soon aft Victoria disappeared.

James and Kathryn were some arrested successful May of 2019 aft testifying nether oath astatine a John Doe hearing, which is simply a tribunal proceeding to find whether a transgression has been committed successful that jurisdiction.

In their testimony, Kathy and James some admitted that they had lied to Law Enforcement for years astir erstwhile they met each other. James said they did this due to the fact that helium was “concerned what radical would think” astir him starting a narration truthful soon aft Victoria’s disappearance, truthful they agreed to prevarication astir it.

Investigators said that the 2 had lied astir different matters relating to Victoria’s disappearance. James lied astir his actions aft discovering Victoria was missing. He said that helium had checked a adjacent state station. Law enforcement checked the information footage from the state presumption and recovered that this was not true. James besides said that helium had called Victoria respective times connected the time of her disappearance, but telephone records indicated that she hadn’t received immoderate calls.

James was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, home abuse, perjury and resisting oregon obstructing an officer. Kathryn was charged with perjury and obstruction. Kathryn was released connected bond, with a nary interaction bid pending trial, portion James was held successful jailhouse connected a $2 cardinal dollar bond. In July 2019, Kathryn was charged with bail jumping aft it was discovered that she and James had been passing messages to each different which was prohibited arsenic portion of her enslaved agreement.

In an interrogation with constabulary aft his arrest, James had stated “here, I killed her. Kathy had thing to bash with it. I don’t cognize however I killed her. I didn’t, truthful I can’t archer you I don’t know.” He said helium and Kathy had lied successful an effort to “keep their stories straight”, but helium changed his communicative and denied sidesplitting Victoria.

As portion of his occupation loading insubstantial discarded onto trucks, James had entree to the sludge ponds, which are afloat of concern waste, and located betwixt his location and his job. When asked astir the pond, James stated “I deliberation if a assemblage was enactment into the sludge ponds, it would ne'er beryllium found. I cognize that arsenic I saw what happened to the cervid that went successful there.” He denied having enactment Victoria’s assemblage successful the pond. The pond is excessively hazardous to search.

Over the years, determination person been aggregate searches. There has been nary hint of Victoria oregon thing suggesting she would beryllium surviving different beingness successful different location. She has not accessed her slope account. She has not filled immoderate prescriptions. She has not checked into immoderate hospitals. She has not traveled extracurricular of the country.

In July of 2020, Kathryn pleaded nary contention to perjury, conspiracy to perpetrate perjury, and obstruction. The bail jumping complaint was dropped. In November of 2020, conscionable earlier her sentencing, Kathryn died by termination astatine the property of 68.

The proceedings started successful February 2021 and lasted 2 weeks. During the trial, 2 chap inmates that were successful jailhouse with him astatine antithetic times testified against him. One of them said that James stated that nary 1 would beryllium capable to place Victoria due to the fact that determination would beryllium nary humor oregon teeth with the body. The prosecution noted that Victoria's dentures were near down astatine the home. Victoria’s lad and said that Victoria and James got into an statement implicit a tablecloth connected the time she disappeared. A video was shown of Prokopovitz being interviewed astatine his Pittsfield location showed his demeanor abruptly alteration arsenic investigators asked much questions and became a captious portion of evidence.

James’ defence did not telephone immoderate witnesses and James did not instrumentality the stand. His lawyer argued that the grounds was circumstantial and the prosecution had failed to beryllium its lawsuit beyond a tenable doubt.

The assemblage deliberated astir 24 hours being reaching a decision. On February 27, 2021, James was recovered blameworthy of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide and Resisting and Obstructing. He was besides recovered blameworthy of 2 counts of Perjury earlier Court.

On May 26th, 2021, James Prokopovitz, was sentenced to beingness successful situation with nary anticipation of parole for 1st Degree Intentional Homicide. James declined to talk during the sentencing hearing. Just earlier the sentencing was handed down, Judge Atkinson told James “I’m hoping aft a portion successful prison, possibly someday you volition determine to springiness the answers to the children and fto them cognize wherever Victoria is. In prison, possibly you tin deliberation astir that.”