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Fridoy Aug. 31 1 984 Green Boy Press-Gazette Press-Gazette photos by John E. Roemer 1 1 3 JTL. Fielding calls: Langlade County Sheriff Jack Llstffman utoc Knew man Thi ircHaw ninht or. ranging for Randolph Whiting's transfer to Capture scene: The mobile home where Whiting, Geral- in a clearing with a dense forest in Green Bay and taking calls from state media, dine Behnke and Victoria Chamberlain were arrested by police sits road.

the back and swamp across me (I I From A-1 2- 10 I'" fa us i fMa fits jw, Mm 1 srn Attention getters: Alice Strandberg, front left, and Anna jSchisel were tending bar when the police changed Teal's iBar in Antigo into their command post Thursday morning, When owners Jim and Janice Teal, joined them later, they became the center of attention as neighbors came to ask questions. J'f-' 7 County Trunk in Vilas Township, located in a "flat, wooded area," at 3:50 p.m. Thursday, Hoffman said. "We got Seebantz first outside the trailer, and when the others realized it they tried to make a break, but they didn't get far," Hoffman said. The trailer "miles from any settlement," is "controlled" by Seebantz, Hoffman said.

"Some of those motorcycle guys patronize it," he said. "We've had it and other places under watch since shortly after the murder; we've known he's been around here ever since then," Hoffman said. Thursday morning two undercover Langlade County officers identified Whiting at the trailer when they went to a rummage sale there, Hoffman said. "Then we started to organize, but we kept it quiet, off the (police) radios in case they had one," he said. Whiting and another man, De-nice Stumpner, 30, fled from Green Bay within days after Anderson was killed, police said.

She was last seen alive late Dec. 26 at the Back Forty Tavern, 618 Bodart Way, which has since closed. A third man, Mark Hinton, surrendered Jan. 3 and was held until early May after he was charged with fighting with jail guards, but was released with no murder-related charges against him. A fourth man, Back Forty owner Mark Lukensmeyer, was kept under police watch but was never charged.

Naze has said he won't be. All four men drove with Anderson from the Back Forty to Lime Kiln Road, police have said. "We've never had sighting of Stumpner; we don't know where he is," Green Bay Deputy Police Chief Richard Rice said Thursday. Stumpner is wanted as a material witness. "There is no need for Hinton or Lukensmeyer" to be arrested or to provide evidence now against Whiting, Rice said.

Naze, however, declined to comment on that issue. Seebantz was charged with helping William J. Evers, a local massage parlor owner convicted this summer of extortion and conspiracy, beat up the owner of a Green Bay adult book store and his son. Seebantz was a leader of the Appleton area DC Eagles motorcycle club. "We've known Whiting's been in Wisconsin all this time," Rice said.

Snared County detectives who had identified Whiting and his girlfriend, Victoria Chamberlain. The detectives had gone to the trailer, ostensibly to visit a rummage sale, but in fact were on an undercover mission. Immediately after making positive identification of Whiting on the basis of tatoos and Chamberlain's presence police established a command post at a nearby tavern. Langan said lawmen from five other agencies were summoned, medics were prepared, a roadblock established and a SWAT team from Portage County was called for assistance. Langan and Green Bay officers Lt.

Cletus Alexander, Sgt. Jerry Parins and Lt. Thomas Hinz raced north to join lawmen in the capture. Langan said lawmen were preparing to telephone those inside the trailer when one of the women walked across the road to a mailbox. She looked down the road, saw lawmen in the area, and waived frantically to those still in the trailer.

Police said the woman ran back into the trailer and all three attempted to flee out of a back door. They ducked under the trailer after being confronted by five camouflaged officers. Langan said the three, realizing there was no chance for escape, surrendered one by one. Seebantz was taken into custody earlier in the day. Langan said Parins and Hinz interviewed Whiting for more than an hour in Antigo Thursday night.

He said Whiting was quiet and relatively cooperative, but did not confess. Margaret Anderson, 997 Shawano was found severely beaten with her throat slashed on a bitter cold night outside the Packerland Packing Co. on Lime Kiln Road. Police have never disclosed a possible motive for her murder. Whiting was carrying a pistol at the time of his arrest, but chose not to resist arrest once he knew he was surrounded, said Langlade County Sheriff Jack Hoffman.

"He's changed quite a bit," Hoffman said. His blond hair is "dyed pitch black, he's clean shaven and he's lost a lot of weight," he said. Police from Langlade, Lincoln and Oneida counties along with four Green Bay officers, some Antigo lawmen and several FBI agents surrounded the trailer on i Owm.w,,; 1 Eyewitnesses: Milton and Emma Kramer saw the capture and arrest from their home, which is a few hundred yards from the trailer in rural Langlade County. Emma watched it unfold through binoculars. From A-1 Capture for life on an 80-acre farm.

They were out cutting oats Thursday morning. When they drove their converted Chicago coal truck loaded with oats back to their farm, they found police cars blocking the road. "Fugitive at large," the police said. So they cut through a neighbor's driveway, across their fields and back to the barn. "We then just loaded our guns and went back to work," Emma said as if she were describing a recipe.

i "You're talking about a murderer, not a bank robber," she said. "That's a little hit different" Thursday night, business returned to normal and James Teal joked that he missed a $1,000 day because of the police. Chamberlain and Behnke had been in the night before to buy five packs of cigarettes, Jim Teal said. They seemed like nice people. Behnke and Seebantz would often come for water because they were having trouble with the well at the mobile home they rented.

The 12-by-60 foot Rollohome sits on rotting, un painted wood skirting. A dilapidated garage and small shed leaning hard toward the ground dot the rest of the clearing. Seebantz owned a cabin about 20 miles north from there in the town of Parrish. Jeffrey Hensley, a neighbor, said he and Behnke would also borrow water from them because they had to running water. "The girl was real nice," Hens-ley said.

"I had bought stuff from them to sell in my (bait and sporting goods) store." It was fishing tackle Seebantz said he purchased from a store that went out of business in Green Bay, Hensley said. The Kramers never talked to the four who were arrested. They had left Chicago to find serenity and the beauty of nature. "In two years we're in the middle of a fugitive hunt," Emma said. They were more relaxed this morning.

"It's something that may never happen again," she said. r. "I was just writing another letter," Mrs. Copple said Thursday. "We had been getting some tips and I just didn't know what to make of them." She said she and her husband hope to attend the trial.

They want to know what happened to Margaret. "We want to know about these things that have haunted us. Maybe now the nightmares will stop," he said. In Margaret Anderson's hometown of Saco, Mont her 75-year-old mother Mary Copple said today that Whiting's capture was welcome news. "I didn't shed any tears, I was too happy," Mrs.

Copple said. "We've shed those already. It's been with us every day." Family "It won't bring her back," Mrs. Copple said, speaking about the arrest. "But at least we know hell never touch another girl again." In late January, when it seemed that the police investigation had almost stopped, the Copplee had tried to take matters in their own hands.

They claimed they hired a "hit man" to track Whiting down. Later, they said the "hit man" had been called off. But they continued to write letters to the Green Bay news media, asking why police refused to divulge information about the slaying and wondering how Whiting had escaped capture. Down at Teal's Bar about one mile south of the mobile home, work was the last thing on the minds of Alice Stranderg and Anna Schisel, sisters-in-law who were running the bar while Jim and Janice Teal dug potatoes. Police crowded the place, using the phone behind the bar to coordinate the movement while waiting for Green Bay police to arrive.

They also ran up a $23 tab for soft drinks while they waited. "How could we be afraid with all these guys around?" asked Strandberg. Customers who came to the bar were turned away. "Private party," they told some. "The cops are just having a party," they told others..