Wisconsin ‘Serial Pooper’ Finally Caught By Local Police With Help From Modern Technology

A Wisconsin community was finding itself in a crappy situation as residents kept finding human feces and used toilet paper in a city park. 

Just southeast of Madison, in the city of Stoughton, Wisconsin, police had been receiving reports from residents who had been finding evidence that someone had been using the park as their bathroom.

Not a restroom in the park, this mysterious "serial pooper" had just been leaving behind their waste out in the open in the park. Gross!

Stoughton Police told a local TV station they initially thought it was an isolated incident. Lieutenant Chad O'Neil of the Stoughton Police Department said as reports continued to come in from community members, "I realized that it wasn’t going away.”

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In an effort to identify the "serial defecator", the Stoughton Police Department says they deployed trail cameras around the park. In doing so, they established a pattern of a person visiting the park in the early morning hours and doing their business.

After identifying a pattern, the department deployed a drone to monitor the park when the individual tended to do their dirty deed.

Last week, the department's drone operator charged with monitoring the stinky situation captured the individual in the act.

Officers from the department made contact with the individual, who was identified as a 46-year-old woman who is a resident of Stoughton. The department cited the woman for Indecent Conduct.

In the wake of sharing this news via their social media, people had asked whether or not it was a homeless person who may not have any other option. In the comments of their Facebook post, the department explained that the individual is not homeless.

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As to why this resident felt the need to repeatedly show up equipped with toilet paper and drop deuces at a city park in the town she calls home, no motive was disclosed.