A Boy Named Red

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In March 1960 two students at Divine Word Seminary in East Troy discovered their 15-year-old classmate Kenneth Red Rudnitski hanging from the clothes hook in a bathroom stall. He was barefoot and dressed in his pajamas.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walworth County botched its one-hour investigation into Red's death. Although the manner mode and circumstances were highly suspicious Walworth County ruled suicide. The County Sheriff did not request an autopsy. He did not advise the county prosecutor to open a suspicious death investigation. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There was a sexual predator at the seminary high school.  The religious superiors responsible for the education and the physical and mental health of the students knew he was a serial criminal.  Nonetheless they conspired to protect him.  No one was ever charged or convicted of a crime.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Did Red commit suicide?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If so why?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Or was he murdered?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Richard Rashke answers those questions in his new book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Boy Named Red: A True Crime Story</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. He details the events leading up to Red's death the subsequent cover ups and the trauma endured by Red's fellow seminary students.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The book calls on the Wisconsin State Attorney General to admit to the injustice and to reopen the case of Kenneth Red Rudnitski. </span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>