The child actor who played werewolf Eddie Munster in the 1960s sitcom The Munsters made an appearance at the end of a Wisconsin murder trial just after the defense claimed he might have been behind a 2006 murder.
Butch Patrick Lilley, 68, was accused by Cindy Schulz-Juedes, 67, of being one of five people who allegedly shot and killed her husband, Ken Juedes, 58, in the couple's home.
Despite the allegations, the Marathon County jurors found Schulz-Juedes guilty on Wednesday of killing her husband in August 2006 as prosecutors argued she did so in order to cash in on his $1 million life insurance policy, WSAW reported.
Schulz-Juedes had claimed Lilley and four other men killed Juedes for revenge after a 2006 lawsuit filed by the couple cost Lilley tens of thousands of dollars in investments in a brewery business.
Butch Patrick Lilley, a former child actor, denied allegations that he and four other men killed Ken Juedes inside his Wisconsin home in 2006
Lilley is best remembers for his role of playing the child werewolf, Eddie Munster, in the 1960s monster comedy The Munsters. He is pictured with Yvonne Decarlo and Fred Gwynne
Cindy Schulz-Juedes, pictured in 2020, was arrested in 2019 for the murder of her husband. Prosecutors claim she killed him to cash in on his $1 million life insurance policy
Lilley, who met the couple at the Monster Hall Raceway in 2006, denied allegations that he was involved in the murder, and said he did not even know he was a suspect until six years later, WSAW reported.
'I was in the process of booking an event when someone says, 'Have you seen the National Inquirer today?' I said, 'No,' and when I looked it up I noticed I was on the cover with the headline that says 'Munster Murder Bombshell at Monster Hall' and that's how I found out about my... supposedly my
