Summary

ANOTHER PERSON HAS BEEN CHARGED IN A JEFFERSON COUNTY MURDER-FOR-HIRE CASE. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD SHANNON JOHNSON OF WAUKESHA WAS ARRESTED TODAY BY MILWAUKEE POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE EASTER SUNDAY SHOOTING DEATH OF RUBEN BORCHARDT. YESTERDAY PKG ABOUT DOUGLAS VEST PLEADING GUILTY TOMORROW AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO FEED TODAY VIDEO OF SHANNON JOHNSON.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 72015
Story Slug DIANE BORCHARDT TRIAL DEVELOPMENT (1995)
Location MILWAUKEE, WI
Format PKG
Date 01/25/1995
Archive Time 27:06
TRT 1:30
Supers RON HENDREE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY FILE JULIE PESCH REPORTING
Video Description SOT, SHOTS OF DIANE BORCHARDT IN COURT, WHITE CAUCASIAN FEMALE IN ORANGE JAIL CLOTHING, PRISON, WHITE CAUCASIAN MALE SUSPECT DOUG VEST IN COURT, OTHER TEENAGERS IN COURT, SOT, DIANE BORCHARDT IN COURT, JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL EXTERIOR, PHOTO OF VICTIM RUBEN BORCHARDT, EVIDENCE PHOTOS, CRIME SCENE, POLICE AND OTHERS SEARCHING FIELD FOR EVIDENCE, MURDER WEAPON, DIANE IN COURT, DOUG VEST IN COURT, SOT
Description ANOTHER PERSON HAS BEEN CHARGED IN A JEFFERSON COUNTY MURDER-FOR-HIRE CASE. TWENTY-YEAR-OLD SHANNON JOHNSON OF WAUKESHA WAS ARRESTED TODAY BY MILWAUKEE POLICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE EASTER SUNDAY SHOOTING DEATH OF RUBEN BORCHARDT. YESTERDAY PKG ABOUT DOUGLAS VEST PLEADING GUILTY TOMORROW AND THEY WERE UNABLE TO FEED TODAY VIDEO OF SHANNON JOHNSON.
Script LEAD: A VERY COMPLICATED STORY: THE ATTORNEY WE TALKED TO, RON HENDREE, IS REPRESENTING DOUG VEST. ACCORDING TO HENDREE, THERE'S ANOTHER PERSON WHO KNEW ABOUT DIAN'S PLAN TO DO AWAY WITH HER HUSBAND. THIS IS A 19-YEAR-OLD WOMAN WHO SOME BELIEVE TO BE DIANE'S LOVER. THERE'S ALSO SPECULATION THAT THIS SAME WOMAN KNOWS WHERE THE MURDER WEAPON IS. JULIE PESCH HAS THE STORY. SCRIPT: ("THE RELATIONSHIP WAS ONGOING AND HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE.") DEFENSE ATTORNEY RON HENDREE IS TALKING ABOUT DIANE BORCHARDT'S RELATIONSHIP WITH A FORMER STUDENT AT JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL: A 19-YEAR-OLD FEMALE. HENDREE ALSO SAYS THIS SAME STUDENT, DIANE'S LOVER, THREATENED HIS CLIENT, 17-YEAR-OLD DOUG VEST INTO BEING PART OF BORCHARDT'S PLOT TO MURDER HER HUSBAND. (SOT) THIS PAST OCTOBER, BORCHARDT AND THREE OF HER STUDENTS, INCLUDING HENDREE'S CLIENT, DOUG VEST, WERE ARRESTED AT JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL AND CHARGED WITH MURDERING DIANE'S ESTRANGED HUSBAND, RUBEN, WHO WAS ALLEGEDLY HAVING AN AFFAIR. THE TEENAGE BOYS ADMITTED TO SHOOTING RUBEN. YET, A MURDER WEAPON WAS NEVER FOUND. TONIGHT, HENDREE SAYS THEY KNOW WHERE THE MURDER WEAPON IS. BUT, HE WOULD NEITHER DENY NOR CONFIRM REPORTS THAT DIANE'S TEENAGE LOVER HAS IT. HE ALSO BELIEVES THIS YOUNG WOMAN KNEW ABOUT THE PLOT AND IF HIS CLIENT, DOUG VEST, FACES PRISON TIME, SO SHOULD SHE. (SOT:"IF SHE HAD A ROLE IN THIS THING AND IF THE ACCUSATIONS ARE ACCURATE, THEN CERTAINLY SHE OUGHT TO BE IN CUSTODY.")
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Keywords

TEENS WHO KILL
HOMICIDE
TEENAGERS
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