POLK COUNTY, Wis. — A 41-year-old Wisconsin man faces charges after his wife was found dead in a basement on Monday.
According to the criminal complaint, 34-year-old Margaret Ler’che’s father called Polk County Dispatch around 8:45 p.m., asking for a welfare check for his daughter. He had been with her earlier in the afternoon, helping her pack up her belongings at her Osceola home.
The father said that Margaret Ler’che and her two children had been living with him in Iowa for the last three months. His daughter and son-in-law were having marital issues, and she was supposed to have arrived in Iowa that evening with her children, he told the dispatcher.
Roughly 10 minutes later, St. Paul dispatch called Polk County, saying that Jared Ler’che, Margaret’s husband, had contacted a crisis line. He said he was driving around with his two children and having thoughts of suicide, the criminal complaint states.
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