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Christine Rudy, 21, of Thorp, was reported missing by her husband, Shaun Rudy, about two days after he said he dropped her off on Highway MM on Nov. 12. The couple, who were married in August, had been arguing. Christine Rudy was six months pregnant.
Chief Deputy Jim Backus said Thursday that part of the woman's remains were found in a wooded area where Shawn Rudy said he last saw her.
Backus said she was killed Nov. 12 in the rural area about six miles south of Thorp and her body was taken to a rural Thorp residence where it was dismembered.
Clark County Sheriff Louis Rosandich said investigators believe the body parts were then dropped off a bridge over the Chippewa River near Jim Falls in Chippewa County. Those remains have not been recovered but searching continues, he said.
``We really don't know if the body is in there or not. It is based on information we have received,'' the sheriff said, declining to elaborate.
No charges have been filed in the killing. Shaun Rudy, 23, has been jailed on unrelated drug and weapons charges. Backus and Rosandich said Thursday that Shaun Rudy is the prime suspect in the killing.
``He will be charged,'' Clark County District Attorney Darwin Zwieg said.
When he was arrested on the unrelated charges, Rudy had a gun in his possession, but investigators do not know if it was used in the killing, the sheriff said. It and two other guns linked to Rudy were believed stolen during a robbery in Iowa sometime between Nov. 8 and Nov. 12, when the couple had contact with some people in Crawford and Grant counties in Wisconsin, he said.
Shaun Rudy has made no admissions of any role in his wife's death, Rosandich said.
``We haven't developed a motive for this crime at this point,'' the sheriff said. ``The investigation is not completed yet. We have a lot of people who are being interviewed.''
