Inset: Carlos Maldonado (Court TV). Background: Kevin Lychwick during his sentencing hearing (Law&Crime).
In a dramatic conclusion to a gripping court case, a Wisconsin man faces life imprisonment after defending himself at his murder trial.
Kevin Lychwick, 64, was convicted in June of first-degree intentional homicide and the concealment of a corpse, crimes relating to the untimely demise of 56-year-old Carlos Maldonado. The victim’s remains were discovered a full six months after his alleged murder. According to reports from Court TV, Lychwick was captured by surveillance cameras on April 29, 2024, prowling the vicinity where Maldonado’s body was ultimately found on October 30, 2024. The area, a wooded section adjacent to their shared apartment building in Waukesha, Wisconsin, became the grim scene of discovery.
During Thursday’s sentencing, Prosecutor Chelsea Thompson described the chilling scene, stating that 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.”
Lychwick’s courtroom outbursts were sharply addressed by Judge David Maas, who remarked that Lychwick’s “protestations in this case are the fantasies and the ravings of a narcissist.” He admonished, “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 was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder charge and 12½ years for hiding a corpse, 7½ to be served in confinement and five years of supervised release.
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