Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
DONALD RICK hangs his head low during a Thursday Iron County Court hearing where he entered a guilty plea to murdering Lisa Waldros, 52, of Kimball, Wis.
By RALPH ANSAMI
HURLEY - Donald Rick admitted Thursday to murdering Lisa Waldros in the fire that destroyed the Bear Trap Inn in Saxon.
Rick, 44, who was living in Saxon at the time of the March 12 fire, entered a guilty plea to first-degree murder in Iron County Court. Five additional counts will be dismissed, but read into the record at sentencing on April 13.
"I understand my conduct caused caused her death," Rick said when Iron County Judge Patrick Madden asked him if he understood the elements needed for a conviction.
A jury trial had been scheduled for the w...
