MARINETTE, WI (WTAQ) – The man being charged in a 1976 double homicide pleaded not guilty on Monday.
82-year-old Raymand Vannieuwenhoven faces two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the deaths of David Schuldes, 25, and Ellen Mathys, 24.
At Monday’s arraignment, no trial date was set and Vannieuwenhoven returns to court on September 27 for a status conference.
The murders of Schuldes and Matheys were unsolved for more than four decades, until last year, when a DNA sample from evidence at the crime scene determined to be from a particular family.
According to the complaint, samples tested from Vannieuwenhoven’s brothers weren’t a match, while a sample from him – obtained from a licked envelope – came back positive.
Vannieuwenhoven allegedly sexually assaulted Mathys and DNA from evidence from the assault eventually tied him to the crime scene, even though the sexual assault charge was dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired.
There is no statute of limitation on homicide charges.
