Oct 11, 1976 - Madison, WI 2005 - Madison, WI
Jeanette Zapata disappears Case Reopened
2008 - Madison, WI
And that's how she found out he had rented a storage locker just outside Madison. She also discovered he had visited a landfill about 80 miles from that locker,
but not before he had gone on a shopping trip to Wal-Mart.
On Sept. 17, 2007, Eugene walked out of court a free man. But the father of three who kept silent during his trial was about to stun everyone.
Eugene told Statz that he had gone over to the house, and that shortly thereafter, an argument broke out. It turned violent in the kitchen, he said, when he grabbed
a paperweight and hit Jean in the back of the head.
Statz says Jean lay on the ground still alive; the detective says Eugene then strangled her. "He told me that he didn't have an actual memory of his hands on her throat.
But he had a memory of his hands and his forearms hurting a lot. He got a cord, like a tent cord, and wrapped that around her neck to make sure that she was dead."
Jeanette “Jean” Braaksma Zapata (35)
Eugene Zapata ()
