Wis. man sentenced for fatally poisoning mother with carbon monoxide over family farm inheritance

DODGEVILLE, Wis. (TCD) -- A 52-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for fatally poisoning his mother with carbon monoxide in 2021 because he was upset she was selling the family farm to her friends. The Wisconsin Attorney General announced Feb. 6 that a judge sentenced Aric Way to life in prison without the possibility of release on supervision for his role in the death of his mother, identified by Kenosha News as 74-year-old Diana Way. Aric Way and his son and co-defendant, 28-year-old Philip Schmidt-Way, were convicted in December 2023 of first-degree intentional