Spingola’s role in academia is that of an adjunct professor of criminal
justice, human services management, and security administration classes at Cardinal Stritch University, Concordia University
of Wisconsin, Marian College, and Springfield College.” Lieutenant Steven Spingola is the author
of the story The Killer in Our Midst: The Case of Milwaukee's North Side Strangler.
According to the description of The Killer in Our Midst: The Case
of Milwaukee's North Side Strangler, “During his 25 year career with the Milwaukee Police Department,
Steven Spingola investigated hundreds of homicides. In the corridors of the Police Administration Building and throughout
southeastern Wisconsin, his reputation as a tenacious and thorough detective is legendary. Yet, on occasion, even preeminent
sleuths catch cases that, for a variety of reasons, remain unsolved. Recent advances in DNA technologies, however, are filling
in the gaps left by unwilling witnesses, faulty memories, a lack of adequate resources, and father time.
This same scenario unfolded during a two month period in 1995 when two north side
Milwaukee women were strangled to death within six block radius of each other. Homicide detectives carefully shifted through
both crime scenes, but were unable to develop sufficient evidence to affect an arrest. Fourteen years later, DNA evidence
collected from these two murders, as well as five others, has linked one unidentified serial killer, dubbed by one Milwaukee
television station as “the north side strangler.”
As the detective who investigated the
1995 homicides of Florence McCormick and Shelia Farrior, Steven Spingola revisits the crimes scenes, identifies the strategies
employed by the perpetrator, and provides a profile of the suspect. "The Killer in Our Midst" is a magazine article
that enables the public to walk a mile in the worn soles of a busy homicide detective.”
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