RICHLAND CENTER — A 56-year-old Boscobel man charged in connection with a death near Muscoda Sept. 29 will be sentenced Aug. 27 on a lesser charge.
Judd Allen Frazier was originally charged with felony murder — battery and felon possession of a firearm. Frazier pleaded no contest in Richland County Circuit Court June 3 to substantial battery as a repeat offender.
State law sets the maximum penalty for felony murder at 15 years in prison in addition to the maximum prison term for the felony crime — up to 15 years in prison for aggravated battery or up to six years in prison for substantial battery. Frazier also faces up to 10 years in prison and $25,000 in fines on the firearm possession charge. Both charges also have repeat-offender enhancers, which can add up to six years prison to his sentence.
Frazier now faces up to 9½ years in prison, including the repeat-offender sentence enhancer, and $10,000 fine.
Frazier also pleaded no contest June 3 to a separate charge of battery by prisoners, also as a repeat offender, for an incident Feb. 19. He faces up to 12 years in prison, including the repeat-offender enhancer, and $10,000 fine, on that charge.
Richland County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a medical call in the Town of Eagle Sept. 29 and found a deceased man.
A preliminary autopsy report said the victim, who has not been publicly identified by authorities, died of blunt force trauma to his head and torso. The report said the head injuries are considered fatal.
According to the criminal complaint as reported by WKOW-TV in Madison, the victim lived in a motorhome, Judd Frazier lived in a camper, and Frazier’s son Colton lives in a pole shed on Peaceful Valley Lane.
Frazier told authorities he came home from work Sept. 29 to find the victim dead in a chair in the property’s driveway. Authorities found the victim with what appeared to be two black eyes, dried blood on his forehead and the left side of his face and a laceration near his left eyebrow.
Frazier told police that three days earlier the “highly intoxicated” victim came to Frazier’s camper about an unpaid $35 electric bill. Frazier told police he pushed the victim out of Frazier’s camper and the victim fell and hit his head on rocks.
Frazier told police that while he was trying to apply gauze to the victim’s head wound the victim grabbed a stick and was swinging it, once hitting Colton Frazier, when he fell and hit his head near a wood pile near Frazier’s camper.
According to the criminal complaint Judd Frazier told the victim “you ain’t gonna hit my boy.” Colton Frazier turned around then turned back to Judd and saw the victim on the ground and Judd Frazier standing over him with a flashlight in Frazier’s hand.
The criminal complaint said a witness said the victim was upset over an unpaid $35 electrical bill and went to Frazier’s camper and then the witness saw Frazier chasing the victim up the driveway, yelling at the victim about how he was being talked to, including calling Frazier’s girlfriend names.
The witness said the victim fell onto his back near the woodpile and then Frazier took a “mag light” and “bashed” the victim across his forehead. The witness was also hit by the flashlight when the witness tried to intervene, the criminal complaint said.
Boscobel police arrested Frazier on a state Department of Corrections warrant Oct. 1.
Richland Center police, fire and EMS, the Richland County coroner’s office and the Dane County medical examiner’s office assisted the Sheriff’s Office.
Frazier was placed on three years probation after he pleaded no contest June 6 to a Crawford County charge of vehicle operator fleeing or eluding an officer for a June 2024 incident.
Frazier was sentenced to two years in prison and two years extended supervision in Lafayette County in 2022 after he pleaded no contest to second-degree recklessly endangering safety — domestic abuse as a repeat offender, and resisting or obstructing an officer as a repeat offender.
Frazier was sentenced to 3½ years in prison and 3½ years extended supervision after he pleaded guilty in Iowa County in May 2017 to seventh, eighth- or ninth-offense operating while intoxicated.