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   GREEN BAY – More than 36 years after 22-year-old Lisa Holstead's   
   death, a Racine man was sentenced Monday morning to 10 years in   
   prison.   
      
   Lou Griffin, 67, was sentenced Monday for homicide by reckless   
   conduct, with 10 years the maximum penalty available under laws   
   in 1986, when the crime was committed.   
      
   In August 1986, Holstead's body was found in a marshy area of   
   the northwest side of Green Bay, near Ken Euers Nature Park. She   
   had been strangled with a piece of her own clothing. For more   
   than three decades, the case remained unsolved and became Green   
   Bay's oldest cold-case homicide.   
      
   Six of Holstead's family members — two sisters, her brother, her   
   niece, her son and her granddaughter — all made witness   
   statements during the sentencing hearing. They described the   
   negative impact the long cold case had on their family, and   
   expressed their displeasure with the maximum available sentence.   
      
   Holstead's family members addressed Griffin directly. Some took   
   the stand wearing shirts displaying an photo of Holstead.   
      
   "The pain it caused our family cannot even be described to you.   
   Many tears. I have thought about Lisa all these years, every   
   day," Steven Holstead said. "It's been 13,377 days since you   
   murdered her."   
      
   Holstead's family also shared memories and described Lisa   
   Holstead's characteristics —including that she was kind,   
   outgoing, trusting, creative, and a great mother to her son,   
   Jeremy Holstead, who was 5 years old when she was killed.   
      
   Steven Holstead said the family had limited photos and no videos   
   of his sister. While presenting his statement at the witness   
   stand, he showed a framed picture of Lisa Holstead and played an   
   audio recording of her singing as a child.   
      
   In 2020, Griffin was connected to the cold case through forensic   
   genetic genealogy. Police collected Griffin's DNA from beer cans   
   and a cigarette butt and found it matched with a 1998 DNA   
   analysis of semen found at the scene.   
      
   According to a criminal complaint, Griffin told investigators he   
   had been high on cocaine and was drinking alcohol on the night   
   of Aug. 12, 1986. He said he may have had sex with Holstead, but   
   denied killing her.   
      
   Griffin has a history of violence against women, including   
   strangulation. He was living in Green Bay for a month before   
   Holstead's death, after he was released on parole from the Green   
   Bay Correctional Institution for second-degree sexual assault of   
   a child.   
      
   Since 2020, the case has been "very litigous," Brown County   
   Circuit Court Judge Timothy Hinkfuss said. Griffin previously   
   faced more serious homicide charges, but entered a plea deal of   
   no contest to the reduced charge in January.   
      
   When delivering Griffin's sentence, Hinkfuss said Holstead's   
   homicide was "a brutal, despicable and heinous act," but the   
   sentence he delivers is bound by the laws as they were at the   
   time of the crime.   
      
   Brown County District Attorney David Lasee requested the maximum   
   possible sentence, while acknowledging that it was "woefully   
   inadequate."   
      
   "The serious of this crime cannot be overstated," Brown County   
   District Attorney David Lasee said. "He failed to take   
   accountability and avoided justice for 34 years. The impact that   
   has had on the family is significant."   
      
   Peter Heyne, one of Griffin's three attorneys, requested a   
   lesser sentence, saying Griffin had already been sitting in jail   
   for two years and was in poor health.   
      
   When delivering his sentence, Hinkfuss said Griffin has   
   continued to victimize Holstead's family by offering no   
   explanation and failing to take responsibility. He explained the   
   limitations of the sentence he was able to give, since   
   Wisconsin's current sentencing system, known as "truth in   
   sentencing," wasn't enacted until 2000. Under current Wisconsin   
   law, homicide by reckless conduct, a Class C felony, carries a   
   maximum sentence of 40 years.   
      
   Griffin will be eligible for parole after serving one quarter of   
   his sentence, and must be released after serving two-thirds of   
   his sentence, Lasee said. He will also need to pay restitution —   
   the amount will be determined at a later date.   
      
      
      
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