The road to possibly solving a Door County cold case decades in the making began this week. Ahead of the start of the jury trial on Tuesday, the defense team for Richard G. Pierce issued several proposed orders, including motions to exclude the state’s first and second notice of experts and for a dismissal of the case. According to online court records, dismissing the case was introduced again on Tuesday.
The state’s proposed orders included motions for the admissibility of statements from the deceased and to admit other evidence. Both the state and the defense proposed orders to exclude certain testimony from the trial.
The trial is scheduled until May 13th to decide the fate of Pierce. He is charged with the murder of his wife, Carol Jean. She disappeared in early 1975, and her body has been missing ever since. The case against Pierce began in 2018, and he entered his first not guilty plea three years ago this month.
