RICHLAND CENTER — A 56-year-old Boscobel man was sentenced to six years in prison and three years extended supervision in connection with a death near Muscoda Sept. 29 and another charge.
Judd Allen Frazier pleaded no contest in Richland County Circuit Court June 3 to substantial battery as a repeat offender and battery by prisoners as a repeat offender.
Frazier was originally charged with felony murder — battery and felon possession of a firearm in connection with the death of a man unidentified by authorities who died on Frazier’s property in the Town of Eagle Sept. 29.
The battery by prisoners charge was for an incident Feb. 19.
Frazier was sentenced Aug. 27.
A preliminary autopsy report said the victim 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.