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Edgerton police found Jennifer and Shaun Vordermann’s bodies in their home Monday.
Shaun Vordermann shot his wife in the back and himself in the head, Rock County Coroner Jenifer Keach said Wednesday. He also shot himself in the foot and fired one shot that hit nothing, she said.
Jennifer Vordermann’s mother, Tina Ellingson Pond, said the coroner told her that her daughter died instantly when the bullet hit her heart.
But she has other questions that she said police have not answered, such as why her son-in-law was allowed to keep a gun after he threatened suicide and was taken to a mental health center.
“I want to know why,” Pond told the Wisconsin State Journal. “I want to know what happened. I want to know why Rock County and Edgerton people were called to that house on three different occasions for my daughter’s safety, and, and ... What good is it for me to call the police if I am not getting any answers?”
Edgerton Police Chief Tom Klubertanz did not immediately return a call for comment from The Associated Press.
Jennifer and Shaun Vordermann met at a car wash and dated for about a year before they married in October, Pond said. Shaun Vordermann was never abusive to his wife, but he was obsessively jealous, she said.
“He had phone trackers on her telephone; he would meet her at work and go to where she was if she didn’t answer her phone,” she said.
Pond said she called police the Wednesday before the shooting because her son-in-law impersonated her daughter in a text message to her. She said she knew he was unstable and had a gun and feared for the couple’s safety.
Police contacted Shaun Vordermann but did not take him into custody or seize his gun, she said.
Jennifer Vordermann called police again Saturday night after her husband threatened suicide, and officers took Shaun Vordermann to the Rock County Health Center. They left the gun with Jennifer Vordermann, who told her mother she put it in the trunk of her car.
Pond said her daughter told her Shaun Vordermann had been forced to the ground on the front lawn and handcuffed. Jennifer Vordermann waited down the street from the house because police told her not to come home until her husband was in the squad car.
Angry because his wife had gone to the Wisconsin Dells to be alone Saturday, Shaun Vordermann had nailed boards across the front door of their house and text messaged her, Pond said.
“He called me all day Saturday. He (text messaged) ’she’s got 10 more minutes to come home or I am burning everything,“’ Pond said.
Jennifer Vordermann expected her husband to be held for at least 24 hours and was moving out Sunday morning when he returned home, Pond said.
Shaun Vordermann had gotten a ride with a relative. He took his wife’s car and keys and told her to find her own way to work the next day, Pond said.
Jennifer Vordermann called her mother.
“I asked her, ’What do you mean he is home already?“’ Pond said. She told her daughter to call her the next morning, and she would take her to work.
“At 6 a.m., no call,” Pond said. “I got a call from a girl I work with. Her husband works with Shaun and said he was a no-show at work. I called Jenny, no answer.”
By then, her daughter was already dead.
