WAUPUN, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man convicted of killing a Madison man apparently committed suicide in prison while serving a life sentence, authorities said Sunday.
Adam C. Peterson, 20, a native of Stillwater, Minn., who dropped out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison last year, pleaded guilty last month to killing Joel Marino, 31, at Marino’s home near campus last January, a crime that shocked the city.
Peterson apparently hanged himself in his cell in the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun on Saturday night, the Dodge County sheriff’s department said.