In the winter of 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin, the life of a 2-year-old girl named Neveah Weigel-Adair was tragically cut short. On December 3rd, young Neveah, a female, and her 25-year-old mother, Amber Michelle Weigel, were found shot to death in a vehicle inside the garage of their home. Neveah was described as a loving little girl, full of spark and personality, who shared a love of music and art with her mother.
Amber was a dedicated mother and an assistant teacher at the Montessori Children's House, where Neveah had recently started attending.
The discovery of their bodies was the beginning of a grim and widening investigation. Authorities soon identified Neveah's father, 38-year-old Tyrone M. Adair, as a person of interest in the double homicide. The search for Adair intensified when, just hours after finding Amber and Neveah, police located the bodies of 33-year-old Tracy Judd and her 23-month-old daughter, Deja Adair, in the trunk of a car in Middleton. Deja was also Tyrone Adair's daughter.
Before he could be apprehended, Adair was formally charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide for the deaths of Tracy Judd and their daughter, Deja. The tragic series of events was part of a quadruple homicide that authorities linked to domestic violence. Friends and family were left devastated by the sudden and violent loss of two mothers and their young daughters.
The search for Tyrone Adair came to an end on December 7, 2009, when his body was discovered inside a vehicle in a rural area in the Town of Cottage Grove. He had died from a gunshot wound that was determined to be self-inflicted. Adair's grandmother stated that he had recently lost his job and was depressed. Court records also showed a history of battery, and a restraining order had been taken out against him by another woman in 2006. He had also been involved in paternity cases with both Amber Weigel and Tracy Judd.
