Fall Creek Man Sentenced For 2017 Killings of his Sister and Her Boyfriend

Friday, June 7th, 2024 -- 10:01 AM

(WEAU Staff, WEAU) A Fall Creek man is sentenced in the 2017 killings of his sister and her boyfriend in Fall Creek.

According to WEAU staff, in Eau Claire County Circuit Court on June 6, 2024, 53-year-old Wayne Price was sentenced to 27 years in prison and 13 years of extended supervision with 2,442 days of jail credit.

Price plead guilty to two amended charges of second-degree reckless homicide with use of a dangerous weapon. Two counts of hiding a corpse and one count of second-degree recklessly endangering safety were dismissed but read in.

In the Fall of 2017, Elizabeth Price and David Dishneau were murdered. Investigators say Price shot and killed his sister Elizabeth and her boyfriend David, then buried their bodies on his property.

In May of 2023, Price successfully withdrew his first guilty plea after being sentenced to serve nearly three decades behind bars. He argued that his lawyers didn’t adequately advise him on his options when he pleaded guilty to the charges in 2019.

Judge Emily Long, who originally ordered Price to serve 28-and-a-half years for those deaths, allowed him to withdraw his guilty plea.

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