Tony Evers Frees Green Bay YMCA Double Killer Without Victim's Family Knowing and Jessica McBride and Jim Piwowarczyk Thank You

A murder victim’s sister expressed shock when Wisconsin Right Now told her that her loved one’s killer was paroled on Oct. 4, 2022. She DIDN’T KNOW. Even AFTER the Evers’ administration was put on notice that multiple victims’ families were not notified of paroles, and despite the law requiring a reasonable effort to notify victims, IT HAPPENED AGAIN.The Wisconsin Parole Commission, run by a new appointee of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, freed a double murderer and an attempted cop killer in October 2022, without at least one victim’s family being notified, even as the debate over Evers’ previous appointee’s paroles of killers and rapists rages in the Wisconsin governor’s race.On Oct. 4, 2022, Eric Vogliotti, a double murderer who shot two men to death in a Green Bay YMCA in a very high-profile case, walked out a prison door on parole. Before the double homicide, Vogliotti was convicted of firing a pistol “into the floor of a Juneau courtroom,” according to a 1987 article in the Green Bay Press-Gazette.At the time of the trial, the prosecutor, Larry Lasee, said of Vogliotti, “What Mr. Vogliotti is is an executioner. He found them guilty of ‘bugging me.’ And for their crime, he sentenced them to death and he executed them.”In the gubernatorial debate on Oct. 14, 2022, Evers was asked about paroles and responded by noting that he had asked his two-time appointee, former parole chair John Tate, to resign last June. He also claimed victim notification problems were limited to one case last May.Horrifically, the sister of Thomas Mason, one of Vogliotti’s murder victims, learned about the parole from Wisconsin Right Now. We called to ask her for comment on October 25, 2022, and she expressed shock.She told us she was not aware the killer was paroled. We have been reporting for more than a month that multiple victims’ families were not notified of past paroles, so Evers and other officials were well on notice that this is a problem.