A teenage girl suspected in a double killing and described as “armed and dangerous” was behind bars on Monday, after being intercepted while driving hundreds of miles south of the crime scene with her boyfriend.
Ashlee Martinson, 17, was taken into custody in Indiana after a nationwide alert was issued on Sunday by police seeking the killer or killers of an adult couple in northern Wisconsin.
According to investigators, the two victims, a man and a woman, are related to Martinson. Few details have been released. Detectives from Wisconsin were traveling to central Indiana to interview Martinson at the Boone County jail, near Lebanon.
Martinson’s boyfriend, Ryan Sisco, 22, was reportedly not a suspect in the double murder but authorities in Oneida County, Wisconsin, believed the couple may have been heading for Tennessee, where Sisco has relatives. He was wanted for questioning.
The unnamed victims were found on Sunday morning at a residence in Piehl, Wisconsin, a remote and sparsely populated rural area between the western shore of Lake Michigan and the southern shore of Lake Superior, in the northern part of the state.
One had been shot and the other stabbed, according to the Oneida County sheriff’s office. Sheriff Grady Hartman said police were alerted by a 911 call but did not reveal who made it. It has not yet been established when the two victims died.
The sheriff’s office issued a warrant for Martinson’s arrest on Sunday and began searching for her and Sisco, with police departments across the US told the couple were thought to be driving away from Wisconsin. Martinson, whose full name was given as Ashlee Anne Rose Martinson, was described as armed and dangerous.
Later on Sunday a Boone County sheriff’s deputy located the couple driving south on I-65 near Lebanon, Indiana. The sheriff’s office and patrols from two local police departments intercepted the vehicle.
Martinson and Sisco were awaiting extradition to Wisconsin.
The Boone County sheriff’s office said Martinson was a juvenile, but she was being charged as an adult. According to Wisconsin authorities, anyone accused of committing a crime in the state who is 17 years or older is considered an adult.
