Murder of Alfred Kunz

"Father Kunz was a well-known expert in canon law, so he knew how to walk the lines," Bill Brophy, a spokesman for the Madison, Wisconsin Catholic Diocese said shortly after his murder.

[4] In 2019, the Kunz case was featured on the "Unsolved III: The Devil You Know" podcast, a project of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

[5] In 2022, the case was featured in an episode of the HLN (owned by CNN) original series "Real Life Nightmare with Paul Holes.

"[8] In 2024, Detective Gwen Ruppert of the Dane County Sheriff's Office revealed to Catholic commentator Matt C. Abbott that in addition to having his throat slit, Kunz was stabbed (fewer than 10 times).

She also revealed that a partial DNA sample discovered in the early 2010s after forensic evidence was retested has been used to eliminate several persons of interest thus far.

Father Alfred Kunz