Investigator From State on Week Case

September 6, 1995

By JENNIFER BENESCH

Tribune Staff Writer

A state investigator has started looking into the hit-and-run accident that killed Deidre Week of rural Vesper.

“We have an investigator on the case, and it’s an on-going investigation,” according to Jim Haney, public relations officer in the Wisconsin attorney general’s office. He declined to name the investigator on the case.

“There is really nothing to update other than the investigator has been here,” Wood County Sheriff Brian Illingworth said. “He works out of the Eau Claire office. He was given the case file, and he comes here when he is available.

“The states Division of Criminal Investigation became involved in the case after receiving a formal request for assistance from Illingworth, which followed a meeting between the victim’s parents, David and Brenda Week, and Attorney General James Doyle.

Criminal Investigation Administrator Frank Meyers said in a letter to Illingworth that his department would “work with the Wood County Sheriff’s Department until this matter is brought to a successful conclusion or until all possible leads have been exhausted.”

Someone from the Department of Criminal Investigations “contacted us, and she did say that someone from Eau Claire had been assigned,” Brenda Week said. “We are waiting to hear from him and meet with him.”

“I’ve been keeping busy putting up more ribbons,” she said. “They were coming down off the (highway) signs because someone complained. All I can do is keep getting ribbons up so whoever did this has to keep looking at them.”

Eleven year old Deidre as struck and killed March 24 by a hit and run driver while riding her bicycle northbound on County Trunk HH, near her home, north of Vesper.