Coroner in Wisconsin says man wanted in 4 slayings found dead inside vehicle near Madison

Coroner: Man wanted in 4 Wis. slayings found dead

MADISON, Wis. — Authorities say a man found dead in a sport utility vehicle is a fugitive wanted in four slayings in the Madison, Wis., area.

Dane County Coroner Raymond Wosepka (woh-SEP’-kuh) says the body was that of Tyrone Adair, whom authorities had been searching for since Thursday night.

That’s when they found the bodies of Adair’s ex-girlfriend and the couple’s young daughter in Madison and the bodies of his current girfriend and their young daughter in suburban Middleton.

Adair was last seen driving a silver GMC Acadia.

A property owner in Cottage Grove, a village about 15 miles east of Madison, called police Monday morning and said an Acadia was parked off a county road. Police say they found Adair’s body inside.

Wosepka says it appeared Adair died of a gunshot wound.

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities on Monday located the sport utility vehicle of a man wanted in the slayings of his two young daughters and their mothers. They said they found a man’s body inside.

Police have been searching for Tyrone Adair since Thursday evening. They discovered the bodies of 25-year-old Amber Weigel and 2-year Neveah Weigel-Adair in Madison and the bodies of 33-year-old Tracy Judd and 23-month-old Deja Adair in suburban Middleton within hours of each other that night.

Adair, 38, was last seen driving Judd’s silver GMC Acadia on Thursday afternoon.

He called Judd’s older daughter that night and said he was behind a Walmart in Dodgeville, about 50 miles west of Madison. He said Judd and Deja Adair had been in an accident and wouldn’t be home that night, according to a criminal complaint.

Madison Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said a property owner in Cottage Grove, about 15 miles east of Madison, noticed a GMC Acadia parked next to what DeSpain described as an outbuilding and contacted police Monday morning.

DeSpain said he did not know when the property owner first noticed the SUV, but it appeared the vehicle had been parked there for several days. He said he didn’t know the name of the property owner.

Police have not identified the dead man. DeSpain said he had no information on what may have caused his death. The Dane County coroner is investigating.

The snow-covered vehicle was surrounded by crime scene tape as police officers milled around the scene Monday afternoon. Authorities planned to tow the vehicle to the state crime lab, DeSpain said.

Adair was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Judd and Deja Adair’s deaths. Police have called him a “person of interest” in Weigel and Weigel-Adair’s deaths, but prosecutors have not charged him in that case.

Police alerted law enforcement agencies nationwide to be on the lookout for him. Adair’s family issued a statement to the media Saturday night urging him to turn himself in.

Associated Press writer Ryan J. Foley in Cottage Grove, Wis., contributed to this report.