Episode Summary
When a 30-year-old woman is found shot to death under the strangest of circumstances, police try to figure out exactly what happened, while her family is convinced there’s only one person who knows the truth… her husband.
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Episode Info
If you have any information about the death of Jane Neumann in 1993, please contact the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office at 715-386-4606. You can also email them at [email protected].
If you or someone you know is struggling with your mental health, you are not alone. Crisis support options are available if you need them. Emotional support can be reached in the United States by calling or texting the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
Jane Neumann.
Jane and Jim Neumann.
Jim Neumann in civil court.
Episode Source Material
- 48 Hours: Who Killed Jane (season 10, episode 11) (series). Directed by Matthew Devoe via Pluto TV.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Woman killed by gunshot by Pamela Powers via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Hudson shooting is apparent homicide by Pamela Powers via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Hudson shooting is apparent homicide by Pamela Powers via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Wausau Daily Herald (Wausau, WI): Woman’s death believed homicide via Newspapers.com.
- Green Bay Press-Gazette (Green Bay, WI): Husband changes story on wife’s death by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- The Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI): Death may have been suicide via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Husband: Wife killed herself via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Husband: Wife killed herself via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Stevens Point Journal (Stevens Point, WI): Man charged for hindering officer in wife’s suicide by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Man guilty of trying to hide wife’s suicide via Newspapers.com.
- Chippewa Herald-Telegram (Chippewa Falls, WI): Man pleads to covering up suicide by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI): Husband enters plea in wife’s suicide via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): State may review Hudson death by Meg Heaton via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Parents sue, claim husband involved in daughter’s death by Meg Heaton via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Death still questioned by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Death still questioned by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Victim’s parents taking shooting case to civil trial via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): DA: Evidence doesn’t support homicide in woman’s death by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com.
- The Daily News (West Band, WI): After 2-year investigation, Hudson woman’s death listed as suicide by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Civil jury to decide if man played role in wife’s death by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Civil jury to decide if man played role in wife’s death by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): A lack of conviction by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): A lack of conviction by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Official: Death likely was murder by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Official: Death likely was murder by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Jury hears conflicting profiles by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Jury hears conflicting profiles by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann described as good liar by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann described as good liar by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Evidence at scene unexamined by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Evidence at scene unexamined by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Under review by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Under review by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann stands by story by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann stands by story by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann verdict satisfies family by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann verdict satisfies family by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- The Post-Crescent (Appleton, WI): Jury rules death a homicide by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI): Jury finds wife’s death a homicide via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann innocent, dad asserts by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann innocent, dad asserts by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Judge orders death record to list homicide by Joe Winter via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Judge orders death record to list homicide by Joe Winter via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI): Judge changes ruling in death via Newspapers.com.
- Chippewa Herald-Telegram (Chippewa Falls, WI): Jude rules death homicide, not suicide by Associated Press via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Diver to look for Neumann gun by Joe Winter via Newspapers.com.
- Mpls St. Paul Magazine (St. Paul, MN): From the Archives: A Wrongful Death by Linda Henry.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WA): Neumann may face criminal charges by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WA): Neumann may face criminal charges by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Doyle keeping Neumann case open by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann won’t be tried – for now by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann’s death ruling still murder by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Hudson lawyer requests hearing in Neumann case by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Hudson lawyer requests hearing in Neumann case by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Court upholds ’93 death ruling by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Court upholds ’93 death ruling by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Cold, hard reality by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Cold, hard reality by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Republican Eagle (Red Wing, MN): Twenty years later, Jane Neumann’s death remains a mystery by Meg Heaton.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): A question of Justice by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): A question of Justice by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- St. Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN): Some want charges in Hudson woman’s 1993 death, though husband has been investigated twice by Mike Longaecker.
- Cousins on Crime (podcast): 79: Revisiting the Jane Neumann Case with Jane’s Niece, Amber Cannon via Spotify.
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann case gets national exposure by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (1)
- Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, WI): Neumann case gets national exposure by Chuck Rupnow via Newspapers.com. (2)
- Ancestry: James Dean Neumann. Published n.d.
- Ancestry: James D. Neumann. Published n.d.
- Ancestry: Jonathan James Neumann. Published n.d.
