The Waupun Deputy Police Chief says investigators realized almost immediately after arriving on the scene of a Waupun residence last August they were dealing with a homicide investigation. Gregory Spittel waived his preliminary hearing last week on a charge of first degree intentional homicide in the death of his grandmother 75 year old Carol Foreman. Deputy Police Chief Jeremy Rausch says Foreman was found in the basement of her grandson’s home with severe head injuries. She died later at a hospital. According to a criminal complaint Spittel likely hit Foreman in the head with his fist causing her to fall striking her head against the concrete basement floor and continued to strike her in the head. “It was apparent to our patrol officers on the scene that it was going to be a homicide due to her injuries,” Rausch told WFDL news. “She was still alive at that point, but we treated it as a homicide investigation right off the bat.” Rausch says Spitttel was out of control when officers arrived on the scene. “He was uncontrollably screaming, chaotic, threatening. He gave our responding officer what we call “a thousand yard stare.” Rausch says investigators believe Spittel was enraged that his grandmother told police about his drug use causing him to lose custody of his children. Spittel is being held in jail on $1 million cash bond.
