An attorney for Ralph Armstrong claimed in a court motion Armstrong’s brother, Steve, confessed to two women he was the one who raped and killed UW-Madison student Charise Kamps in 1980.
Attorney Jerome Butig’s motion to a Wisconsin appellate court includes affidavits from the two women, including Debbie Holsomback of Fort Worth. In Holsomback’s affidavit, Holsomback says Armstrong’s brother, Steve Armstrong told her several years after Ralph Armstrong’s murder conviction and imprisonment his brother may want revenge against him. “Steve…responded with words to the effect of: ‘The DNA testing is going to show he didn’t do it. I did it,’ .”