Tyrone Adair

Tyrone Adair is wanted in the killings of four people near Madison, his two daughters and their mothers.

Out of work with little money for Christmas, Tyrone M. Adair is suspected of doing the unthinkable: killing his two daughters and their mothers.

As police mounted a nationwide search for the 38-year-old town of Middleton man, authorities on Friday charged Adair in two of the four killings.

"It's shocking and it's alarming," said Lt. Noel Kakuske of the Middleton Police Department. "We're taking it very seriously until he is apprehended."

Adair, the son of a well-known Dane County social worker, was charged with killing his current girlfriend and their nearly 2-year-old daughter and stuffing their bodies into the trunk of his car. He is suspected in the shooting deaths of another woman and her 2-year-old daughter at their Southwest Side home Thursday.

The quadruple homicide is believed to be one of the biggest mass killings in Dane County history.

The Dane County Coroner's Office identified two of the victims as Tracy Judd, 33, and her daughter Deja Adair, 23 months. Both had lived with Adair in a home at 7265 Squire Circle, along with Judd's 12-year-old twin girls from a previous marriage. The Coroner's Office identified the two other victims as Amber Weigel, 25, and her daughter Neveah, 2. Adair was Neveah's father. Weigel and Neveah were found shot to death around 6 p.m. in a car in the garage of their home on Park Edge Drive near Elver Park.

Both of the women had filed paternity suits against Adair in the last two years, according to court records.

I don't care that Adair was "out of work with little money for Christmas."

What does that have to do with a quadruple homicide?

Plenty of people don't have a job and are in tight financial straits.

They aren't going out and allegedly committing murder to manage their problems.

...Adair is black, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 175 pounds, with brown eyes. Police said he is considered armed and dangerous. He was last seen wearing a black Northface brand vest, a green long-sleeved shirt (possibly a fleece), camouflage pants, and a baseball-style cap.

"Numbers of tips are coming in, and teams of detectives are pursuing each," said Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain. "We've put this out electronically across the country. We don't know where he's gone. He has strong ties to the Madison area. He could be here or gone."

Adams Outdoor Advertising on Friday put an alert about Adair on its two-sided digital billboard along the Beltline near Rimrock Road.

[Dorothy] Carter said she was concerned when her oldest grandson didn't show up for the family's Thanksgiving dinner.

"I had heard that he had been really depressed because he lost his job and he didn't have money for Christmas," she said. "He always worked to take care of his kids. I don't know what happened. I think he snapped."

I understand being depressed and out of work and not having money for Christmas, but you don't deal with that by killing.

I suppose Adair just decided he didn't want to work to take care of his kids anymore.

This is such a sad story, with so many victims. Adair's family must be suffering terribly, too.

I have no sympathy for Adair.

Too bad he chose murder (allegedly) as the solution. If he did, in fact, think death was a way out, he should have taken his own life and spared his innocent daughters and their mothers.

In a sense, Adair did end his life when he chose to end the lives of four others.

He's 38 and it's over.
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UPDATE, December 7, 2009: Murder suspect Tyrone Adair found dead in Cottage Grove

The man authorities believe murdered his two daughters and their mothers last week was found dead Monday morning in the town of Cottage Grove in the vehicle that police had been looking for since Thursday's killings.

Dane County Coroner Ray Wosepka said Tyrone M. Adair, 38, suffered a gun injury. Wosepka would not say if the injury was self-inflicted, but police said they are not looking for any suspects in connection with Adair’s death.