Man ‘humiliated’ after walking in on girlfriend being intimate with another woman ‘snapped’ and killed both

Richard Wendell Sotka (Mississippi County, Arkansas Sheriff’s Dept.) and the home where he killed Rhonda Cegelski and Paula O’Connor (WBAY screenshot)

Richard Wendell Sotka (Mississippi County, Arkansas Sheriff’s Dept.) and the home where he killed Rhonda Cegelski and Paula O’Connor (WBAY screenshot)

A 50-year-old man in Wisconsin already serving dual life sentences for killing his girlfriend and her best friend — stabbing them both to death when he “snapped in a jealous rage because he saw them being intimate and felt “humiliated” — is scheduled to go to trial next month for allegedly attacking a correctional officer during his incarceration.

Richard Wendell Sotka is currently scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 8, 2025, in Green Bay on one count of battery by a prisoner, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Sotka previously made headlines when he was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder with a dangerous weapon in the 2023 slayings of Rhonda Cegelski, his 58-year-old girlfriend, and Cegelski’s best friend, Paula O’Connor, 53. Sotka was subsequently ordered to serve two consecutive life sentences without the chance for parole.

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