A 48-year-old Wisconsin man who murdered four of his brothers in his fifth drunk driving conviction told a judge that he prays for the victims every day and that he wishes he had been the one killed in the collision. However, jail conversations between the repeat offender and his spouse reveal that his apologies might have been a hollow one.
According to court documents, Waupaca County Judge Raymond Huber sentenced Scott Farmer to 37-and-a-half years in prison with 342 days of credit on Friday. The defendant, together with his brother Fabian Gonzalez, 23, and their sisters Lilian Gonzalez, 14, and Daniela Gonzalez, 9, killed the other vehicle’s driver, Daniel Gonzalez, 25, in a head-on collision on Highway 10 in Weyauwega on December 16, 2023. Farmer was traveling west in the eastbound lane at the time. Inside the truck, an EMT found a huge bottle of vodka.
Law&Crime’s earlier coverage: You truly ruined our lives: According to officials, a repeat drunk driver was so inebriated that he believed it was February 12th after a wrong-way crash killed four Wisconsin siblings.
Prosecutors brought up Farmer and his wife’s jail calls during the sentencing hearing. According to a courtroom report from Green Bay NBC station WGBA, Farmer accused the victim’s stepfather of operating a sex trafficking ring out of his church. According to reports, Scott’s wife claimed that on the day of the collision, God was acting through him. During the calls, Farmer and his spouse allegedly stated that since many members of the victim family are from Ecuador, immigration checks ought to be conducted at the courtroom entry.
According to reports, Huber called the remarks insulting to the court and ludicrous.
The mother of the victim, Paulina Schilling, talked of her suffering after the collision.
After a few days, she reportedly told a translator, “I had to go see them at the funeral parlor, and it was the most heartbreaking day of my life.” How I felt seeing them all dead on a cot is beyond anyone’s comprehension.
In August, Farmer entered a no contest plea to four charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated for the fifth time, as previously reported by Law & Crime.
The plea agreement included the dismissal of four outstanding traffic penalties and one additional felony offense. Four charges of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, one count of operating a vehicle with a revoked license, one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated for the fifth time, reckless driving, driving the wrong way on a divided highway, and speeding on an expressway were the initial grounds for Farmer’s arrest in December 2023.
Many remembrances of the deceased are available on a Facebook page. AGoFundMeis is asking for donations from their family.
When asked what transpired following the collision, Farmer told police, “I just spun out and said, I didn’t hit anybody.” After that, he became aggressive with firefighters and even attempted to assault medical personnel.
Eventually, Farmer acknowledged that he had consumed a lot of alcohol.
The criminal complaint stated that Farmer smelled strongly of alcohol when deputies looked into the collision.
A deputy reported, “I could smell a strong odor of intoxicants emanating from inside the vehicle.” I saw that Scott’s eyes were glassy (or watery) and bloodshot. He had heavy eyelashes. His speech was heavy, slurred, and very slow. He occasionally spoke incoherently, and I found it difficult to follow his sentences since they would ramble. In particular, his eye and facial motions were delayed and sluggish. When instructed to remain motionless in his seat, he also refused to listen. At one point, he tried to crawl to the passenger side of the car. All of these observations point to impairment, specifically impairment brought on by alcohol use.
By the time his blood was taken, Farmer’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was.346 according to a blood test. The offender was particularly restricted because to his pertinent criminal background, even though the permissible limit for ordinary drivers in Badger State is.08.
His BAC was.02 because of previous convictions for drunk driving.
The defendant’s history of driving after intoxication dates back several decades. On October 6, 1999, September 18, 2001, November 29, 2006, and December 18, 2019, he was found guilty of these charges.
This report was contributed to by Colin Kalmbacher.
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