MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A 53-year-old man charged last week in the 2008 killing of a University of Wisconsin-Madison student was set to be released from prison on a drunken driving sentence.
David Kahl is accused of killing 21-year-old Brittany Zimmerman, who was found strangled and stabbed in her downtown apartment after she returned home from class. Kahl is charged with first-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime and by use of a dangerous weapon.
Kahl is a registered sex offender who is serving a prison sentence for his seventh drunken driving offense. Court documents show he just completed an early release program, the State Journal reported.
A judge has signed an order for Kahl’s release. Officials say that once that happens, he would be taken into custody on the homicide warrant and returned to Madison.
According to the criminal complaint, Kahl was in Zimmerman’s neighborhood at the time of her death, and had been knocking on doors and asking people for money, saying he needed to fix a flat tire. One witness said he even came into her house to ask for money, and she told him to leave.
Kahl does not yet have an attorney in the homicide case.
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