Green Bay Press-Gazette from Green Bay, Wisconsin • Page 22

Green Bay Press-Gazette Thursday, May 25, 1 989 E-7 's ex-wife, son get on with their lives Whiting "Just like with any divorced couple, I tell him (the boy), 'We live here, and this (the prison) is Daddy's Vicky Whiting here, and this (the prison) is Dad- dy's she said. Some day, Vicky plans to tell her son that Whiting is in prison "because he did something bad." She does not know whether 6he will ever tell him what Whiting that was bad. "We'll have to play it by ear," she said. "Maybe when he's a teeni ager, I'll tell him or let him readUi the articles, if he can handle it emotionally. Maybe he never will1" be able to handle it." week, but lately they go less often.

"Little Randy knows and loves his father," Vicky said. "He's a good father. "Just like with any divorced couple, I tell him (the boy), 'We live Vicky was charged in Langlade County with harboring a criminal. The charge eventually was dismissed. That same day, Vicky learned she was pregnant.

She and Whiting married in the Brown County Jail amid tight security in a civil ceremony on Nov. 30, 1984. She went to Milwaukee to have the baby in secret, to avoid publicity. She named him Randolph Jr. but she calls him little Randy, to differentiate between him and Whiting.

Whiting was convicted on March 25, 1985 of being party to first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison. Mark Hin-ton, Mark Lukensmeyer and Den-ice Stumpner later received 50-year prison terms for their involvement in Anderson's death. Vicky still isn't convinced that Whiting killed Anderson. She said they talked about it only rarely but that Whiting said he didn't do it.

"I still don't know. I don't dwell on it," she said. "I've gotten on with my life; I'm going to school now. It doesn't matter at this point. They (all four of them) were there; they were in the wrong.

Just being rpDlSCOVER Thedleasure -OF associated with the death is enough." Vicky and Whiting were divorced Feb. 15, 1988. She lives with little Randy in an area of Wisconsin that she does not want disclosed because she said they want to rebuild their lives in peace. Vicky still takes her son to see his father. They used to go once a SPEAKERS AGENCY FOR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LISTEN AND YOU 11 SEE HI-FI HEAVEN 1917 S.Webster 437-8727 Come wander through our Garden Center and find a complete selection of Premium Quality Nursery Stock, from beautiful blooming annuals to specimen landscape plants Open Memorial Day 9 to 3 From Planning to Planting Tiltanann By Paul Srubas Pifcss-Gazette jFcxir-year-old Randy Whiting dAesjnot know that his father was a jkey participant in one of Green Bays most gruesome murders.

When Vicky Whiting takes the boy io visit his father in the Wau-pin (Correctional Institution, they nit discuss Randolph Whiting's rqle the 1983 murder of Margaret Anderson. have a toy room at Wau-pttn (where they can play," Vicky Whining said. "It's not the quantity of, tiine; it's the quality. He (Ran-ddlphl reads books to him, does whafj dads do." Vifcky Whiting, 31, came with hr sjpn recently to the Green Bay Press-Gazette office to request clippings' pi articles about the Margaret Anderson case. A student at a Wisconsin technical college, she is wtiting a term paper on the effect olj mass media on families in the nws.

She.will use the news clippings fof reference but will write from experience. Even before their much-publicized marriage in the own County Jail in 1984, she and Whiting were in the public eye. Wthiting was known for his alleged involvement in a murder and she ws known as the woman who fled and hid with him in the north wods before his capture. jVicky Whiting, then known as Victoria Chamberlain, met Randolph Whiting in April 1983, at a motorcycle swap meet in Wausau. Two months later, they moved into an1 apartment together on Christiana Street in Green Bay.

Vicky learned through news ac-coyhls of Anderson's death. The Soj'ear-old woman's body was fognd on a manure pile near the Pijfckerland Packing Co. on Lime In Road on Dec. 27, 1983. Ander-so i's throat had been slashed.

icky had no reason to suspect liting's involvement. He had no blood on him, no ob-vi (us signs like you'd think a per-so i would have," she said. (Vhiting fled after police issued a rder warrant. For three or four mi nths after Whiting's flight, Vi did not know where he went, sh said. But police evidently ex-pe the two to contact each other Her home was the scene of sud-de unannounced police raids, ofen in the middle of the night, she said.

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VV I i Li. A Tillmann Landscape Nursery 2735 University Ave. 468-1132 Open Daily 8-8, Sat. 8-4, Sun. 10-3 IE Vicky Whiting Randolph Whiting's ex-wife went to her apartment on Christiana Street.

They scarcely were in the door when the house was surrounded by police and television cameras. The two had touched off a silent alarm that police had installed there in the hope of catching Whiting. In March or April of 1984, she decided to find Whiting. She won't say how she did it or where she found him, but she said she caught up with him after searching a few weeks. He was working under an assumed name.

"I just knew which rocks to turn over," she said. Through the summer, they worked for a carnival that traveled through the northern part of the state. Toward the end of summer, they moved into a mobile home with a friend of Whiting's in Langlade County. Undercover police spotted Whiting at a rummage sale there, police accounts said. Whiting was caught Aug.

30, 1984. "I kept seeing a new car going up and down the road, and this is a very remote area," Vicky said. "It looked like an unmarked squad car." Another resident of the trailer went to get the mail and saw police road blocks. She came running back. "That's when they (police) came running out of the trees, the hills, dressed as hunters and farmers," Vicky said.

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