James Richards waives preliminary hearing
Arraignment set for Oct. 6
James Richards, the Oconomowoc teenager charged along with a Watertown man in the alleged July 14 murder of Beau Butschke, waived his right to a preliminary hearing on Sept. 8.
Richards, 19, faces felony charges of first-degree intentional homicide as party to the crime, hiding a corpse and theft from a corpse. He appeared briefly in Jefferson County Circuit Court, where Judge Randy Koschnick bound him and co-defendant James Richardson, 51, of Watertown, over for arraignment.
The men will appear in court together at 10 a.m. Oct. 6, when they will likely enter a plea in the case.
The judge recently ruled against a motion filed by Richards' attorney Jeffrey De La Rosa seeking to drop the homicide charge against him.
Richards and Richardson are accused of killing Beau Butschke, 28, of Ixonia, on July 14.
According to the criminal complaint, Richards was present when Richardson shot and killed Butschke. The two men then allegedly hid the body and the victim's truck in a storage unit before returning to Richardson's Ixonia duplex, where they ate bratwursts and drank beer allegedly stolen from Butschke's residence.
Butschke and Richardson were neighbors at an Ixonia duplex, where the two reportedly feuded over Richardson's neglect of property and lawn care.
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