MADISON (WKOW) — Madison police are investigating whether a Wood County man accused of kidnapping two young men is connected to college student Brittany Zimmermann’s unsolved murder.
Edward Lanphear is accused of holding the men captive in his home near Wisconsin Rapids and sexually assaulting them. Court records show investigators found a newspaper clipping about slain University of Wisconsin-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann in Lanphear’s home.