Investigators found a noose, plastic restraints and a newspaper story about a homicide investigation among other items in the home of a Wisconsin Rapids man accused of abducting two men last week, according to court documents.
Wood County sheriff’s investigators who searched the home of Edward Lanphear last week found a newspaper clipping of a story about the death of Brittany Sue Zimmermann, the 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison student found dead in her apartment in April, according to court filings.