David A. Kahl is an American career criminal from Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. He has schizophrenia.
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BIOGRAPHY
Aside from Madison, Kahl has lived in other parts of Wisconsin including Ridgeway, Oshkosh, Oregon, Belleville, Milwaukee and Verona. Here are 10 more things about him:
- His friend Andrew J. Scoles was an inmate in Gilmer Federal Correctional Institution in Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia, USA.
- He is 5’5″ tall.
- His registered weight is 250 pounds.
- He was 21 years older than Brittany Sue Zimmermann, a student of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison.
- He has a rap sheet that began in 1991.
- In 1993, he was convicted of second-degree sexual assault.
- In 2008, he killed Zimmermann.
- After a parole violation, he spent much of 2009 in Fox Lake Correctional Institution in Fox Lake, Dodge County, Wisconsin. That year, an anonymous letter was mailed from that medium-security state prison.
- While in jail in 2022, he hold his mother and a fellow inmate he had been awake for eight days and taken methamphetamine and crack when he encountered Zimmermann in 2008 and he told her mother he had no clue why he killed the University of Wisconsin–Madison student.
- On March 28, 2025, he turned 59.
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TIMELINE
2008
- On April 2, 2008, he entered the residence of Zimmermann’s female neighbor in Madison and asked for $40 and solicited $20 from another man in the neighborhood to fix a flat tire. Afterwards, he entered Zimmermann’s apartment and fatally stabbed her.
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2014
- He confessed to Scoles that he killed Zimmermann, Scoles told a Madison detective in December 2014, the same month testing on deoxyribonucleic acid evidence lifted from Zimmermann’s clothing returned a positive match for him.
2016
- In April 2016, he started serving a six-year prison sentence in Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin following his seventh drunk driving conviction.
2017
- While he was in Dodge Correctional Institution, Scoles suffered injuries in a crash in Fitchburg, Dane County on July 20, 2017 and died on August 12, 2017.
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2019
- In April 2019, the anonymous letter mailed from Fox Lake Correctional Institution in 2009 underwent DNA analysis. The results revealed that only he could have licked the letter’s envelope.
2020
- On March 20, 2020, he was arrested for Zimmermann’s murder and charged with party to first-degree intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon. At the time, he was an inmate at Oshkosh Correctional Institution in Oshkosh on an unrelated conviction and could be released as soon as November 2021.
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2022
- On October 27, 2022, he admitted in court that he killed Zimmermann and told his attorney Ben Gonring that he had taken a life so he deserved life in prison.
2023
- On January 12, 2023, Dane County Circuit Court Judge Chris Taylor sentenced him to life in prison without parole.
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