Ex-cop Louis Krause talks to a reporter for 60 Minutes about how he saw his partner, Thomas Grady, murder an unarmed black suspect in 1958. The murder was dismissed as justified until Krause confessed in 1979, saying that Grady had planted a knife on the victim’s body (Milwaukee, 1980) [841 x 564].
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[1980 – Ex cop: Milwaukee police covered-up the murder of a black man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Hx2yB7nO0)
* So we got up to the detective bureau and two detectives came in shortly thereafter and said, “You have to change your story, Krause. That’s not the way it happened.”
* Who are these two?
* I have no comment at this point.
* Why not?
* I have to plead the fifth.
* You don’t want to name the two guys.
* No I do not. As far as I’m concerned, one is still a law enforcement officer. Don’t know about the other one. I don’t know if he’s retired or if he’s dead.
[Daniel Bell police death case still resonates 50 years later](https://archive.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/daniel-bell-police-death-case-still-resonates-50-years-later-b9918714z1-209115771.html)
[Former Milwaukee officer admits to slaying in 1958](https://imgur.com/a/zbW3QQP)
[Former Milwaukee officer sentenced in cover-up](https://imgur.com/a/wjsWWz8)
Louis Krause had been complicit in the cover-up, but could not be prosecuted for perjury due to the statute of limitations. In 1980, Thomas Grady, now 49, pleaded guilty to reckless homicide and perjury. The statute of limitations did not apply to Grady, now a truck driver, since he had moved to Colorado. The district attorney said a trial would’ve been extremely difficult given that Krause was an alcoholic, an admitted perjurer, and a convicted felon who had since served time in prison for theft. There were no other witnesses to the shooting. The only evidence against Grady beyond Krause’s confession was that the knife had been found in Bell’s right hand (he was left-handed).
Grady, who had reportedly pleaded guilty in hopes of receiving a suspended sentence, was sentenced to 7 years in prison. His sentence reduced to five years on appeal. He was paroled after serving three years.
In 1981, a civil jury awarded $1.79 million to the family of the victim, Daniel Bell, which was reduced to $1.6 million on appeal, equivalent to approximately $5.7 million in 2026.