I was at the hospital Saturday night into Sunday morning for my Grandma (she's been sick) and they mentioned on a news break that a woman had died fom a hit and run at 1 AM on 81st & Lapham.

I knew right where that was. Its actually on the same block my cousin lives on and a bar I go to occassionally called Captain Nicks. I dont go out drinking often, but when i do its usually Saturday night into Sunday and we always finish up at Nicks because its a cool little bar and the bartender that closes is a great guy. I'm glad i wasnt there that night, I'd hate to know I had just seen this woman before she died (and at Nicks I couldnt have missed her, it seats maybe 15 people).

Anyway, the story started out strange and just kepts getting stranger as the details leaked out...

By Crocker Stephenson of the Journal Sentinel April 30, 2012 11:54 p.m.

West Allis - Mary Jane Moore calls her son and says she is coming over.

It's Sunday, a few minutes before 1 a.m., and Moore is in front of her boardinghouse, in the 1500 block of S. 81st St., less than a block from Capt'n Nick's, a small tavern where she's spent part of the night.

Moore, who is 45, tells her son she has been in an argument. He lives more than 30 blocks away. She tells him she's walking over.

And then, she's hit. Right in front of the boardinghouse.

A 1997 Pontiac Grand Prix GT four-door sedan neither slows nor swerves before striking her, investigators say. A witness thought the car hit a speed bump, they say. The driver of the Grand Prix keeps going.

What Moore was doing in the street is something police are still investigating. It appears she was lying in the roadway. When they arrive, her things are scattered around her. Her shoes and socks. A food stamp card and a Medicaid card. A cellphone and two keys. Three cents.

Meanwhile, Moore's son is waiting for her.

Thomas Olson is 22 and lives with his fiancée, Latricia Jansen, and his 17-year-old sister.

Several friends are over. Olson waits and waits.

His mother doesn't come.

He calls her cellphone several times.

No one answers.

He calls the West Allis police.

They tell him they know nothing about his mother's whereabouts.

Olson and three friends decide to get something to eat. They pile into a 2007 black Jeep Grand Cherokee. Olson is in the passenger seat.

Olson and his friends are out when West Allis police arrive at his apartment. They tell Jansen that Olson's mother is dead. Jansen calls Olson.

Olson and his friends speed toward Aurora West Allis Medical Center. They are estimated to be traveling about 60 mph when the Jeep smashes into a parked dump truck in the 9000 block of W. National Ave. The Jeep lands on its roof in somebody's yard.

Olson is the only one of the four who is fatally injured. He dies in an ambulance shortly before arriving at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa.

Less than four hours after Mary Jane Moore dies, her son dies, too.

Police arrest the driver of the Grand Prix for leaving the scene and the driver of the Jeep for operating while intoxicated. Both matters have been referred to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office.

Family members identify Moore at the medical examiner's office. They are shown a photograph. They tell an investigator that Moore has a large dragon tattoo on her right hip and a four-pointed star on her left forearm.

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs on Tuesday 1st of May 2012 01:02:55 AM