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‘This was not random and this couple was targeted’ – Police arrest suspect in slaying of Wisconsin doctor, Beth Potter, and her husband, Robin Carre, who were found dead in a ditch by a jogger on Tuesday

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h4><strong>Death of respected doctor&comma; 52&comma; and her college application consultant husband&comma; 57&comma; in Madison&comma; Wisconsin was &&num;8216&semi;targeted killing&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police said<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><strong>Bodies of Dr&period; Beth Potter and her husband&comma; Robin Carre&comma; 57&comma; were found by in a ditch Tuesday morning in an area of 1&comma;200 acres of forests and prairies <&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><strong>The discovery was made by a jogger Tuesday around 6&period;30am in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum <&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><strong>Police in Madison&comma; Wisconsin announced they have made an arrest in the slayings on Wednesday<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><strong>Medical Examiner&&num;8217&semi;s Office said the couple died from &&num;8216&semi;homicidal related trauma&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><strong>Police have said they&&num;8217&semi;re confident the killings &&num;8216&semi;was not random and this couple was targeted&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h2><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-343793" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;Beth-Potter-left-and-her-husband-Robin-Carre-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Beth Potter&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb; and her husband&comma; Robin Carre 1" width&equals;"672" height&equals;"713" &sol;><strong style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">Dr&period; Beth Potter and her husband&comma; Robin Carre&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; were found dead on Tuesday morning&period; Police said they&&num;8217&semi;re confident &&num;8216&semi;this was not random and this couple was targeted&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div>Police in Madison&comma; Wisconsin announced they have made an arrest in the slaying of a respected Madison area physician and her educational consultant husband who were discovered dead in the woods on Tuesday&comma; the victims of an apparent targeted double homicide&comma; police in Wisconsin have said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The bodies of Dr&period; Beth Potter&comma; 52 and her husband&comma; Robin Carre&comma; 57&comma; were found in a ditch by a jogger Tuesday around 6&period;30am in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum&comma; a research and popular recreational area that includes more than 1&comma;200 acres of forests and prairies&period; The location was near Potter&&num;8217&semi;s job on Wingra Drive&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Carre was pronounced dead at the scene and Potter died later in hospital&comma; UW Police Department spokesman Marc Lovicott said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;It&&num;8217&semi;s the department&&num;8217&semi;s first homicide case since 1982 and the first double homicide in recent history&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-343804" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;UW-Madison-tweet-on-Carr-Potter-double-homicide-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"UW-Madison tweet on Carr&comma; Potter double-homicide 1" width&equals;"586" height&equals;"287" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6><strong>Police have not named the suspect<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-343796" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;UW-Arboretum-in-Madison-Wisconsin-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"UW-Arboretum in Madison&comma; Wisconsin 2" width&equals;"692" height&equals;"452" &sol;><strong style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">The couple were found by a jogger Tuesday morning in the UW Arboretum&comma; a research and popular recreational area that includes more than 1&comma;200 acres of forests and prairies&period; The manner of their deaths was not by chance&comma; police said   <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">The couple were discovered by a jogger Tuesday morning in the UW Arboretum&comma; a research and popular recreational area that includes more than 1&comma;200 acres of forests and prairies<&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;Potter and Carre died from &&num;8216&semi;homicidal related trauma&comma;&&num;8217&semi; according to the Dane County Medical Examiner&&num;8217&semi;s Office&period; Authorities have not disclosed the manner of their deaths&comma; but UW-Madison police said the slayings were not by chance&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Through our police investigation&comma; we reached a point where we were confident in that this was not random and this couple was targeted&comma;&&num;8217&semi; police department spokesman Marc Lovicott wrote in an email Thursday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Beyond that&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t provide any further details as this is a very active police investigation&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Potter worked at the Wingra Family Medical Center&comma; run by the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Access Community Health Centers&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was medical director of UW Health&&num;8217&semi;s Employee Health Services and spoke French and Spanish&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A tribute on the medical school&&num;8217&semi;s website describes how Dr&period; Potter&&num;8217&semi;s language skills  &&num;8216&semi;brought clarity and comfort to the diverse patient population she served&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-343795" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;UW-Arboretum-in-Madison-Wisconsin-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"UW-Arboretum in Madison&comma; Wisconsin 1" width&equals;"658" height&equals;"429" &sol;><strong style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">Police Vehicles can be seen stationed outside the UW-Arboretum as law enforcement personnel investigate a double homicide in the university community Tuesday <&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-343791" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;Beth-Potter-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Beth Potter 1" width&equals;"864" height&equals;"515" &sol;><strong style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">At the time off her death Dr&period; Beth Potter &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; was medical director of UW Health&&num;8217&semi;s Employee Health Services&period; She worked at the Wingra Family Medical Center&comma; run by the UW-Madison Dept of Family Medicine<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">&&num;8216&semi;In addition to being a wonderful family physician and highly respected teacher&comma; Beth was a dedicated clinical leader&comma;&&num;8217&semi; William Schwab&comma; M&period;D&period;&comma; the interim chair of Potter’s department&comma; said in a statement&period; <&sol;span><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&&num;8216&semi;She was wise&comma; warm&comma; and always supportive&period; There are so many patients&comma; students and colleagues whose lives have been touched by Beth&period; Her loss weighs heavily on members of our department&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Carre was an independent educational consultant&comma; according to his website&comma; and offered consulting services to students and their families for the college search and application process&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon; var&lpar;--color-text&rpar;&semi;">He was also a former coaching director at Regent Soccer Club&comma; a youth soccer organization in Madison&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span>&&num;8216&semi;It’s still unnerving that we have an individual or individuals responsible for this&comma; but we hope people are at ease a little bit in knowing this is not something random&comma; that these individuals were picked out after walking in that area&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Lovicott said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;This is unprecedented for folks currently at the department&comma; but this is the stuff we train for&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-343792" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;Beth-Potter-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Beth Potter 2" width&equals;"713" height&equals;"589" &sol;><strong>Carre was pronounced dead at the scene and Beth Potter &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; died later in hospital on Tuesday&comma; UW Police said&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">UWPD officers and investigators have canvassed the neighborhood&comma; followed-up on leads&comma; and spoken to individuals who may have information about the homicides&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On Tuesday officers were seen trying to carry out the investigation while maintaining social distancing measures due to the coronavirus pandemic&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<span class&equals;"mol-style-bold">Anyone with information on the killings has been asked to contact Madison Area Crime Stoppers at 608-266-6014&period;  Tips can be submitted at <a class&equals;"class" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;p3tips&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noreferrer noopener">P3Tips&period;com<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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