Sheriff's Captain: Martinson texted about wanting to kill stepfather prior to Oneida County homicides

RHINELANDER - Ashlee Martinson told her boyfriend that she wanted to kill Thomas Ayers on the day before Ayers' murder, an Oneida County Sheriff's Captain testified on Friday morning.

Thomas and Jennifer Ayers were found shot and stabbed to death, respectively, at a home east of Rhinelander in March. Prosecutors believe Martinson, a 17-year-old Rhinelander High School student, killed them. Thomas Ayers was her stepfather and Jennifer Ayers was her mother.

At a preliminary hearing on Friday in Oneida County Circuit Court, Judge Michael Bloom found enough evidence to allow the double-homicide case to move forward.

Full story: WJFW

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