Quadruple Homicide/ 2 children & 2 Moms - Madison WI

Acquaintances this morning confirmed the identities of two of the
victims in Thursday's quadruple homicide, and police cordoned off the
Middleton house of another woman and child with whom the suspect lived.
Meanwhile, police continued a "massive manhunt" for Tyrone
Adair, the suspect in the killings of the two mothers and their young
children. Madison police said the girls are both believed to be
daughters of Adair. "Numbers of tips are coming in, and teams of detectives are pursuing each," spokesman Joel DeSpain said. The two known victims are Amber Weigel, 25, and her daughter Neveah, 2.
Weigel worked at the Montessori Children's House, where Neveah attended
day care. Weigel and her daughter were living with Jon Butler,
according to Butler's uncle, Tom. The two were found shot to
death in a car in a garage at 6827 Park Edge Drive, a duplex on
Madison's Southwest Side, said police, who were called to the scene at
6:07 p.m. The bodies of two other victims, a woman and a girl,
were discovered about 8:30 p.m. in the trunk of a black Chrysler in a
parking lot in the 2600 block of Branch Street at the Forest Ridge
apartments in Middleton. Their identities had not yet been
confirmed. But police Friday cordoned off a home Adair shared with
Tracy Graser, 33, and Deja R. Adair, 2, in 2008, according to Dane
County Circuit Court records. Police would not say Friday why they were
at Graser's home. It was unclear if Adair had been still living at the
home or living elsewhere. Tom Butler, speaking outside the
Park Edge Drive home, said his nephew was talking with Madison police
officers until early Friday morning. "He (Jon) worked late or he probably would have been home when it happened," Tom Butler said. Aisha Spinks, a neighbor who was close to Amber Weigel, described her as a joyful person. "I've never seen someone so happy," Spinks said. "She loved everything about her job, her life, her daughter." Spinks said Adair, Neveah's father, had been an uneven presence in the
the child's life. Court documents from August indicate that Adair
hadn't seen his daughter for four months and had no plans to visit her.
"He (Adair) was off and on between wanting to be part of her (Neveah's) life and not," Spinks said. The search for Adair continued Friday. Adair is the son of a well-known
Dane County social worker, Rita Adair, who works at the Joining Forces
for Families office on Badger Road in Madison. Lynn Green, director of Dane County Human Services, said Rita Adair wasn't at work Friday. "We're just extending a lot of support to her with her son's situation and the loss of her grandchildren," Green said. Adair, 38, was described as black, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 175 pounds,
with brown eyes. He may be driving a silver GMC Acadia crossover SUV
with Wisconsin license plate 342-EBL. The vehicle was not registered to
Adair, who police say is considered armed and dangerous. Adair was last
seen wearing a black Northface brand vest, a green long-sleeved shirt,
possibly a fleece, camouflage pants, and a baseball-style cap. "We've put this out electronically across the country," DeSpain said.
"We don't know where he's gone. He has strong ties to the Madison area.
He could be here or gone." Adams Outdoor Advertising also
planned to put an alert about Adair on its two-sided digital billboard
near Rimrock Road and the Beltline by late morning. Middleton
Police Lt. Noel Kakuske said it appeared the victims in the trunk of
the car were driven to the parking lot. He said the girl was 2 to 3
years old. Kakuske said police had not yet confirmed where the two were
killed. "We are assessing other locations to see if they might be involved in this incident," Kakuske said. Dane County Circuit Court records show Adair was involved in two
paternity cases: One in 2007 involving Weigel and another in 2008
involving Graser. In the 2008 case, Adair listed his
occupation as a laborer for Clack Corp., 4462 Duraform Lane in Windsor,
earning $476 per week. A judgment in that case gave Adair and Graser
joint custody of Deja, who was born on Christmas Day 2007. Peter Chermak, vice president and chief operating officer of Clack,
said Friday that Adair hadn't been with the company for about six
months. He didn't know how long Adair had worked there. In the
2007 paternity case, Weigel was given sole custody of Neveah, and Adair
was ordered to pay $351 per month in child support, starting in August
of this year. According to court records, that would have amounted to
17 percent of his gross income. Court records show Adair was
the subject of a restraining order barring him from having contact with
a third woman, who alleges Adair had been harassing her in 2005 and
2006. In a timeline filed with the court, the woman said that in 2006,
Adair had destroyed her property, refused to leave her home and "tells
me he could kill me." The day after she tried to break up with him in
May 2006, the woman found her home burglarized and vandalized. She
reported receiving threatening phone messages from Adair and suspected
that he had slashed her tires. Jamie Porter of Madison, a friend of the Weigel family, said she knew Amber Weigel since Weigel was a girl. "She was a great mother. Her baby was her pride and joy in her life."
Porter said. "Her main goal was to raise her daughter and have her be
happy." Porter said Weigel and Adair had been seeing each
other for just a couple of months. "Amber was never in a relationship
with him," she said. "The pregnancy was a surprise." Nevertheless, she said Weigel wanted Adair to be part of Neveah's life.
Weigel used to take Neveah to Glaser's home for visitations with Adair,
Porter said, and the two women had a good rapport. Porter said
Neveah brought purpose and direction to Weigel's life, which had had
its ups and downs. Her mother died of cancer when Weigel was a
teenager, Porter said, and after living with her stepfather for a time,
Weigel moved out on her own. "Over the past couple years,
things were starting to fall in place for her," Porter said. "She just
completely turned her life around and was so devoted to her child." Porter said Weigel and Butler had been together for about six months. "From what I hear, they were so happy. She had finally found the guy that loved her and her child," Porter said, "She lived for her child," Porter said. "I don't think she would have been able to handle it without it." Adair's birth father is Harold Ferguson, who was convicted of attempted
first-degree intentional homicide for choking a former girlfriend
outside of an East Side restaurant on April 24, 2004. He was sentenced
to 3-1/2 years in prison and has since been released. In a
letter to the court, Rita Adair wrote that she and Ferguson had Tyrone
when they were teenagers and discontinued their romantic relationship
after his birth. Despite their separation, they continued to raise him
together, she wrote. Adair, Ferguson's friends and even the
victim pleaded with Judge Daniel Moeser for a lenient sentence. They
described him as a good man who became consumed by drug and alcohol
use. "Mr. Ferguson has always given me respect and
consideration above and beyond what I expected," Rita Adair wrote. "My
son has modeled these traits and I am very thankful for the example his
father showed him in these areas." Rick Flowers, a local jazz
drummer and owner of the bar and nightclub R Place On Park, met Adair a
few years ago at his mother's short-lived nightclub on Main St.,
Adair's Lounge (now The Frequency). Adair was helping out his mother, Flowers said. "He seemed like a nice guy. He was working there doing whatever she needed done. I remember him being very helpful," he said. It was unclear where Adair has been living but a former landlord said
Adair was always current with his rent and he had no problems with him.
Adair lived Downtown at 222 S. Carroll Street for about three or four
years, said Jim Carpenter, a co-owner of Carpenter Apartments. He moved
out of his efficiency apartment, where he was paying about $525 per
month in rent, at the end of his lease in June 2008. "It was quite a surprise to read about him," Carpenter said of the news of Adair being a suspect.

A nationwide alert has been issued for a Middleton, Wis., man
suspected of killing his two daughters and their mothers, police said.
Tyrone Adair, 38, was charged Friday with killing his current
girlfriend, Tracy Judd, 33, and their daughter Deja Adair, 23 months,
Middleton Police spokesman Noel Kakuske said.
The bodies of Judd and her daughter were found Thursday in the trunk
of Tyrone Adair's car. Judd and her daughter died of "homicidal attacks
that were not related to firearms," the Dane County Coroner's Office
said Friday, declining to elaborate.
Adair also is suspected in the fatal shootings of Amber Weigel, 25,
and their daughter Neveah, 2. The bodies of Weigel and her daughter
were found in the garage of their home in nearby Madison, police said.
Both women had filed paternity suits against Adair, an unemployed laborer.

The hunt for a man wanted in connection with four homicides in the Madison area is over.Police found Tyrone Adair inside an SUV about 15 miles east of Madison on Tuesday afternoon.Authorities
had been looking for Adair since Thursday night, when they found the
bodies of his ex-girlfriend and their daughter in Madison. They also
found the bodies of Adair’s current girlfriend and the child that he
shared with her in Middleton.Investigators said that it appears that Adair died of a gunshot wound.Police responded to the scene when someone called to report a suspicious vehicle.