Defendant Convived In Fatal Prairie du Chien Stabbing is Sentenced

(Prairie du Chien, WI) -- Sentencing is being ordered for a man convicted in a deadly Prairie du Chien stabbing. Sixty-five-year-old Daniel Welsch was killed in 2024. Forty-year-old defendant Jessie Slaughter pleaded no contest to a 1st Degree Reckless Homicide charge in February of this year. He has now been sentenced to a term of 25 years behind bars.