By Sharif Durhams
Madison police plan to see whether there’s a tie between a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two men in Wood County and a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student who was killed in April.
Edward Lanphear, 46, is being held on $1 million bail at the Wood County Jail, charged with 12 felonies ranging from kidnapping to sexual assault to false imprisonment and battery.
Wood County sheriff’s investigators who searched Lanphear’s home last week found a newspaper clipping of a story about the death of Brittany Sue Zimmermann, a UW-Madison student found dead in her apartment in April, according to court filings.
Another highlighted newspaper found in Lanphear’s home, dated July 7, contains news about the search for a missing 23-year-old Grand Rapids man who later turned up in Lanphear’s basement.