What does Woodstock Police Detective Dave Sharp remember most about investigating the crimes of child sex offender Richard F. Wachter? “The amount of human wreckage he left in his wake,” […]
Having committed sex crimes against minors two decades ago means a Woodstock man will serve less times in prison that he would for similar offenses today. Richard F. Wachter, 56, […]
Defendant free on bail, on electronic monitor
Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 17 for a Woodstock man who was indicted this month on 16 charges of sex crimes against minors between 1991 and 2000. Richard F. Wachter, […]
More than 25 years after she was a victim of the first of multiple sexual assaults, a former Woodstock woman finally summoned the courage to file a complaint this past […]
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