LA CROSSE, Wis. — A judge denied a new trial for a West Salem man serving a life sentence for the death of his wife. Todd Kendhammer, 52, was convicted in 2017 of killing his wife and then staging a car wreck to make it appear she died when an item fell offa passing truck and crashed through their windshield. Kendhammer had sought a new trial on the basis of new evidence. Judge Todd Bjerke was unconvinced.



Kendhammer saga. A happy moments, the windshield damage, the trial.