Victims identified in Green Bay double-homicide; Rhonda Cegelski, Paula O'Connor were slain Sunday in home
Doug Schneider
GREEN BAY - Police have identified the women who were killed in a double-homicide Sunday on Green Bay's east side.
Rhonda Cegelski, 58, of Green Bay, and Paula O’Connor, 53, of Bellevue, were stabbed to death in Cegelski's home in the 1600 block of Elkay Lane, police announced Thursday.
The two women were best friends who worked together as hairstylists at Sei Bella Salon in Ashwaubenon, according to GoFundMe pages that have been set up for both Cegelski and O'Connor. "Rhonda and Paula were the life of the party," the page says.
Cegelski is survived by her four children, granddaughter and mother, according to her GoFundMe page to help cover funeral expenses.
O'Connor "adored visiting her grandchildren," according to her GoFundMe page, which was set up to help with funeral expenses as she did not have life insurance.
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Richard Sotka, 48, of Green Bay, is in custody in the Mississippi County Detention Center in Arkansas, awaiting extradition to Brown County. Brown County prosecutors charged him Wednesday with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide related to the women's killings.
Sotka had recently moved in with Cegelski, according to the criminal complaint.
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The complaint says he killed both women and then took off after cutting off his electronic monitoring device that he had been on because of a domestic violence incident in Oconto County. He was interviewed by Green Bay detectives in Arkansas where he admitted to killing both women, according to the complaint.
Police said the investigation continues.
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