LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – On this week’s Sunday Wrap-Up, a murder-suicide shocks a Nebraska community, a southeast Nebraska man is dead following a workplace accident, and a Bennet man is sentenced after posting his crime on the internet.
1. Murder-suicide, kidnapping in Polk county leaves two dead
Two are now dead after a murder-suicide and kidnapping in Polk County early Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday, the Nebraska State Patrol identified the suspect as 40-year-old Wesley Absher and the murder victim as 44-year-old Brian Gabel of Osceola.
According to a preliminary investigation, NSP investigators believe Absher traveled to a hog farm near County Road T and 127th Road, south of Shelby and shot and killed Gabel. NSP said Gabel owned the hog farm…