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UPDATE: Fatal Fire, 2 People Dead
UPDATE: Husband set fire that killed wife, himself.
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UPDATED Saturday, January 3, 2009 --- 12:15 p.m.
MUSCODA, Wis. (AP) — The Grant County sheriff says a rural house fire that claimed the life of a 71-year-old woman was intentionally set by her husband.
Sheriff Keith Govier says the body of Sheron Eggert was found about four hours after the fire was put out Dec. 27. Her husband Arthur Eggert died five days later, on Thursday.
Govier says the husband admitted setting the fire at the Muscoda home and provided enough details to back up physical evidence before he died.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
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UPDATED Friday, January 2, 2009 --- 4:10 p.m.
From the Grant County Sheriff's Department:
The U.W. Hospital notified the Grant County Sheriff's Department on 1/1/09 that Arthur Eggert passed away from the injuries he received in the fire. Mr. Eggert was in the house at the time the fire started and he had been the focus of the investigation. Therefore, the investigation is now closed.
On 12/27 at 12:57 p.m., the Muscoda Police and Fire Departments responded to a fire at 1186 STH 133 in the Town of Muscoda. Upon arrival, they discovered the mobile home fully engulfed with flames and Arthur R. Eggert lying outside the trailer with burns to his lower extremities. He was transported to the Boscobel Hospital by the Muscoda Rescue Squad and later to UW Hospital in Madison where he succumbed to his injuries on Thursday, January 1, 2009.
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POSTED: Sunday, December 28, 2008 --- 9:50 p.m.
MUSCODA, Wis. (AP) -- A woman died and her husband was injured in a house fire in the southwestern Wisconsin town of Muscoda.
The Grant County sheriff's office says 71-year-old Sharon Eggert died in the fire, which was reported around 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
Her husband, 71-year-old Arthur Eggert, was taken to the Boscobel Hospital, then transferred to the University of Wisconsin hospital for treatment of his injuries.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
