PATRICK: A LAS VEGAS MAN, WHO’S
CHARGED IN AN ARSON CRIME SPREE
IN WAUKESHA THAT INCLUDED
SETTING A WOMAN ON FIRE, REFUSED
TO APPEAR IN COURT TODAY
>> I’VE BEEN TOLD MR. MURN IS
REFUSING TO LEAVE THE JAIL TO
COME INTO THE COURTROOM.
WE’RE HERE FOR HIS INITIAL
APPEARANCE.
HE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN BY THE
PUBLIC DEFENDER’S OFFICE, AND HE
IS REFUSING TO COME HERE TODAY.
PATRICK: THE COURT SET HIS BAIL
AT $1 MILLION.
PROSECUTORS CHARGED 39-YEAR-OLD
JOEL MURN WITH SIX FELON
COUNTS, INCLUDING ARSON AND
ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE.
MURN IS ACCUSED OF SETTING A
WOMAN ON FIRE AS SHE WALKED HER
DOGS WEDNESDAY MORNING NEAR
BROADWAY AND LAKE STREET.
ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL
COMPLAINT, POLICE BELIEVE MURN
THOUGHT THE WOMAN WAS HIS COUSIN
WHO LIVED IN THE SAME AREA AND
WHO HE WAS TRYING TO KILL.
THE WOMAN SUFFERED 2ND AND 3RD
DEGREE BURNS.
POLICE SAY MURN ALSO SET HIS
GRANDFATHER’S VEHICLES AND
WORKSHOP ON FIRE, AND TRIED TO
RUN HIM AND HIS WIFE OVER WITH A
CAR.
HIS GRANDFATHER TOLD DETECTIVES
MURN SUFFERED A TRAUMATIC BRAIN
INJURY IN A CAR ACCIDENT 20
YEARS AGO, AND THAT MURN WAS MAD
AT HIM BECAUSE OF SOME BAD STOCK
ADVICE IN THE
