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Defendant names third party in Tomahawk homicide
Friday, September 26, 2008

A teenager accused of killing a convenience store clerk is pointing the finger at someone else.

Derek Domke, 18, was in Lincoln County Circuit Court on Thursday and named a third party as being involved in the March 22 murder of 25-year-old Rochelle Anderson. Anderson was founded beaten and stabbed to death outside of the Zephyr Fuel convenience store on North Fourth Street in Tomahawk.

The genetic material of the man named by Domke is being checked by the Wisconsin State Crime Lab to see if it matches DNA mixtures found at the murder scene.

But the judge said the man’s finger and palm prints don’t need to be compared, because the prints found in blood in a bathroom at the scene have been matched to Domke.

Domke’s trial is scheduled for October, with jury selection to start October 14.

Rochelle Anderson homicide investigation files

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