Inset: Carlos Maldonado (Court TV). Background: Kevin Lychwick at his sentencing hearing (Law&Crime).
A Wisconsin man who acted as his own attorney at trial has been sentenced to spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
Kevin Lychwick, 64, was convicted in June of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse in the killing of 56-year-old Carlos Maldonado, whose remains were discovered about six months after authorities believe he was shot. According to Court TV’s trial coverage, surveillance footage showed Lychwick on April 29, 2024, walking in the area where Maldonado’s body was later found on Oct. 30, 2024 — a wooded spot near the Waukesha, Wisconsin, apartment building where both men lived.
At Thursday’s sentencing hearing, prosecutor Chelsea Thompson said Lychwick “ambushed [Maldonado] at the top of that hill. He knew Carlos would go up there to smoke, and he shot him twice. Two intentional shots.”
Judge David Maas repeatedly tried to rein in Lychwick’s outbursts, telling him his “protestations in this case are the fantasies and the ravings of a narcissist.” The judge continued, “The stunts that you have pulled are the last-ditch efforts of someone who recognizes that their reckoning is coming. And today, Mr. Lychwick, you are out of stunts. You are out of options. You are out of tricks. You are out of carnival acts. Today your reckoning has come.”
Lychwick received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole on the murder conviction. For hiding a corpse, he was given 12½ years, including 7½ years in confinement followed by five years of supervised release.
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