On Friday afternoon, May 8, 2026, 80-year-old Susan Paul of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, was shot to death in the parking lot of Pewitt’s Nest Nature Preserve in the Township of Baraboo. Multiple witnesses told deputies they saw a man force a woman from a vehicle and then shoot her multiple times. Sauk County deputies arrived minutes after being dispatched at about 2:08 p.m. and found Susan Paul deceased from several close-range gunshot wounds.

Authorities identified the suspect as Susan’s husband, 80-year-old George Paul, also of Prairie du Sac. About an hour after the killing, George Paul allegedly drove a Kia Carnival to the Sauk Prairie Police Department and fired several shots into the front door and vestibule; no one inside was injured. Officers stopped the minivan at 3:11 p.m., arrested him without further incident, and later reported finding a pistol, a purse, and blood inside the vehicle. Evidence tied him to the earlier shooting.

George Paul was jailed and charged with first-degree intentional homicide, intentionally pointing a firearm at a person, endangering safety by reckless use of a firearm, criminal damage to property, and discharging a firearm within 100 yards of a building.

If anyone witnessed the events at Pewitt’s Nest or the Sauk Prairie Police Department parking lot, can you share what you saw or any additional details?