Stabbing Suspect Charged with First-Degree Murder

A 38-year-old Greenfield man faces life in prison after being charged with first degree intentional homicide Tuesday, three days after he allegedly stabbed his longtime girlfriend to death.

Christopher Gish was charged in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Tuesday with one count of intentional homicide with use of a dangerous weapon, a Class A felony that carries a lifelong prison sentence.

Margaret “Maggie” Litwicki, a 37-year-old mother of three, including two children with Gish, in her home in the 4400 block of West Morgan Avenue.

According to the criminal complaint:

Two Greenfield police officers went to Litwicki’s address , abandoned and apparently in a crash.

The officers were eventually allowed into the house and found Litwicki in an upstairs bedroom dead of apparent stab wounds to her torso and face. The medical examiner said Litwicki likely died as a result of a stab wound to the chest and that she had suffered numerous other stab wounds to the neck, head and extremities.

Gish, meanwhile, was found near the 128th Air Refueling Wing, 1919 E. Grange Avenue. When questioned by a Greenfield police detective, Gish initially said he didn’t remember anything about what happened, but later admitted he was angry with Litwicki when she said she was going to take the couple’s two children and he’d never see them again.

He then told police that if he could not have the kids, nobody was going to. At one point he told police “You know what, I don’t feel bad that I did it. I honestly don’t for some (expletive) oddball reason dude, I couldn’t take it.”

Gish said he may have stabbed Litwicki four or five times.