WAUPACA, Wis. (WFRV) - The trial for an over 30-year-old double murder case came to an end Monday morning after jurors found 54-year-old Tony Haase not guilty.
Haase was facing two first-degree murder charges in the brutal stabbing and killing of Tanna Togstad and Timothy Mumbrue in her Royalton home back in 1992.
During the trial, prosecutors told the court that Haase had mentioned to police that his father had died in a snowmobile accident that also involved Togstad’s father. They suggested that Haase had gotten drunk one night and decided to confront Tanna Togstad about the accident, leading to the murders.
Prosecutors also pointed to DNA samples from "foreign bodily fluids” on Togstad’s body that match those collected from Haase during a 2022 traffic stop and an interview he did in