Thomas S. Wojtczuk charged with second degree murder of girlfriend
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This house at 701 Spruce Street in Woodston was the scene on April 9th following the death of Charity Northrop.
Thomas S. Wojtczuk is being held in the Rooks County Jail after being charged with second degree murder in the death of his girlfriend. Charity Northrop.
A Rooks County man has been charged with second degree intentional murder and criminal possession of a firearm, Kan sas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.
Schmidt filed the charges late Friday morning, April 17, with the Rooks County District Court, against Thomas S. Wojtczuk, 39, of Woodston, in connection with the death of Charity Northrop on April 8 in Woodston. Bond has been set at $1,000,000. First appearance in Rooks County District Court has not yet been scheduled.
The case was investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Rooks County Sheriff’s Office.
The attorney general’s office accepted the case at the request of the Rooks County Attorney’s Office, which will assist with the prosecution.
Criminal charges are merely accusations. Individuals are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Any public comments on the prosecution of Wojtczuk are governed by the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 3.6, Trial Publicity, and Rule 3.8, Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor. All media requests or inquiries should be directed to the Office of the Attorney General, 120 S.W. 10th, 2nd Floor, Topeka, Kansas 66612, (785) 296-8495.
No additional information is available at this time.
A copy of the complaint is available at https://bit.ly/3bjMosW.
In the complaint by the prosecution, Wojtczuk had been released from prison within the previous five years for a felony conviction of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Madison County Circuit Court.
The sexual abuse case involved a female 17 years of age in Madison, Ill. He was sentenced for the criminal sexual abuse on March 25, 2014 and at the time was to serve a maximum prison time of five years.
Wojtczuk had some minor run-ins with the law, which included speeding, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, and expired driver’s license 6 months or less in 2002 in St. Clair County, Illinois.
The majority of his time was spent living in Illinois, but most recently had lived in Tennessee and Texas before moving to Woodston.
