Greenfield child death cold case; 2 more mothers, exes testify
GREENFIELD, Wis. - Day four of testimony wrapped in the trial of Ronald Schroeder on Friday, Oct. 18.
He's accused of killing his infant daughter back in 1991.
In Friday's proceedings, the court heard from two women, both exes of Ronald Schroeder and the mothers of his kids, and they both told a similar tale of life.
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Ronald Trial Day 4
The women detailed abuse that they say they've either suffered, or that their kids have suffered, while they were in a relationship with him.
"It was a lot of body slamming, it was a lot of pushing me to the ground, it was a lot of hitting where you would never see it," testified one of the women.
Prosecutors called two women who each shared a child with Ronald Schroeder, who's on trial for the 1991 death of his 7-week-old daughter Catherine.
FOX6 is not showing the women's faces in any video to protect their identities, but both of these women had kids with Schroeder after Catherine's death.
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"He changed who I was," she added.
This mother testified that Schroeder abused her and their infant son back in the late 1990s.
"I was prepping the bottle, and Hunter is still screaming, and I came back in, and Ron had a burp cloth pushed into Hunter’s mouth," she said.
She told the court that Schroeder never wanted her to tell people that he was the father of her child.
Schroeder's defense say this reason could be because he lost custody of a former child because of the uncertainty surrounding the 1991 case, and didn't want that to happen again.
"It was rather nice of him to tell you that, right? Thoughtful," said defense attorney Charles Glynn.
The second woman spoke about mysterious injuries her and Schroeder's infant daughter suffered in the early 2000s.
"I was told that she had multiple rib fractures and that her leg was broken," the other woman testified.
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She said she didn't cause the injuries and Schroeder was the child's only other caretaker.
But the defense asked if Schroeder maintained a good relationship with the child afterward.
"For the most part," she said in response to the attorney's question.
Day five of testimony is expected to resume Monday morning, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m.
The judge says he anticipates the trial lasting throughout Wednesday.