Michael Ingold, a Shawano man facing a first-degree homicide charge who has been in the Shawano County Jail for more than 3 1/2 years, is now facing even more charges involving threats to prosecutors and law enforcement.
Ten new charges have been added for prosecution involving threats of harm to four people, two assistant district attorneys handling the case and two detectives serving as witnesses for the homicide case. Ingold, 61, faces five counts of threatening prosecutors, three counts of threats to law enforcement officers and two counts of threatening bodily harm to people involved with the court or legal system.
Because of the threats involving people with the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department and the Shawano-Menominee County District Attorney’s Office, the case is being managed by special prosecutor Eric Sparr with Winnebago County. An initial appearance for Ingold took place March 11, and Shawano-Menominee County Circuit Court Judge William Kussel Jr. recused himself while a new judge is sought. The next court hearing has not yet been scheduled, according to online court records.
Each of the charges face maximum prison sentences of six years and maximum fines of $10,000.
The evidence comes from seven phone calls made at the Shawano County Jail from January 2025 to July 2025, as well as a couple of in-person conversations at the jail in June 2025 and December 2025, according to the criminal complaint.
A detective monitored the recorded jail calls and reported that, in one call made Jan. 28, 2025, Ingold allegedly said he wanted to hang two of the victims.
Two calls in March had Ingold alleged saying that, if he got out of jail, he was going to do something terrible to three of the victims and that has has no problem killing someone, according to the complaint.
During a call made April 18, 2025, Ingold allegedly told the person he was calling: “I’d kill (the third victim). I’d kill all of them. I’d beat ‘em with a baseball bat, and I’d enjoy every (expletive) second of it.” According to the complaint, Ingold allegedly went on to say he was having dreams about torturing the victims, going so far as to mention a drone and explosives.
When the person on the other end of the line allegedly warned Ingold not to talk like that for fear that it could be taken seriously, Ingold allegedly said “Let ‘em take it seriously,” according to the complaint, and claimed the victims were “crooked.”
Following a court hearing June 20, 2025, Ingold returned to the jail and spoke with the booking officer, and during the course of the conversation, he allegedly said that he’d like to skin one of the prosecutors alive.
A jail inmate allegedly told detectives on Dec. 15, 2025, that Ingold had been making threats against the detective, claiming that Ingold said he used to run drugs for the Magnetos biker gang, serving as a truck driver, and that the gang “owed him favors,” according to the complaint.
Detectives looked at jail videos from three days earlier, where Ingold allegedly said he was going to break one of the detective’s bones and “give him a lobotomy,” according to the complaint. Ingold allegedly said when all the things were going to happen, he would be in Arizona.
The criminal complaint also shows that Ingold’s behavior while incarcerated has been less than civil, with numerous incidents documented where he has allegedly threatened to throw officers over railings or down stairs, damaging property, filing toothbrushes into shanks and making hooch.
On the homicide case, a final pre-trial has been scheduled for 1 p.m. March 23, and Kussel is still listed as the presiding judge in the case. The trial itself is scheduled to begin April 7 and is expected to last through the end of April.
lpulaski@newmedia-wi.com
