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A Wisconsin widow who once offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in her husband’s murder has been busted in connection with the 2006 slaying, according to a report.

Cindy Schulz-Juedes, 65, of Chippewa Falls was arrested Nov. 27 in connection with the murder of  her husband, Kenneth E. Juedes, a pharmacist, according to a statement from Marathon County Sheriff Scott Parks, which was obtained by the Wausau Daily Herald. Juedes was 58 when he was killed.

Schulz-Juedes was ordered held on an unusually high cash bond of $1 million and ordered to surrender her passport at an initial court appearance Monday, according to the report.

She had not yet been formally charged with homicide.

“From the onset of this investigation, all evidence led detectives to believe Kenneth was intentionally shot to death while in his home,” Parks wrote in the statement.

The sheriff’s office said it had a suspect for years but was unable to produce enough evidence for a conviction, the Daily Herald reported. It’s unclear what developments led to Schulz-Juedes’s arrest.

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But Schulz-Juedes had given inconsistent statements about her actions the day she found her husband dead, said Wisconsin Assistant Attorney General Richard DuFour to the paper.

She also had a strong financial motive — her husband’s valuable life-insurance policy, as well as property that she sold for $200,000 not long after his death, DuFour said.

Juedes was killed by shots fired from a .20-gauge shotgun — the same type of shotgun his wife reported missing after the homicide, according to Du Four.

A year after her husband’s death, Schulz-Juedes offered a $25,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest in the case, the paper reported.

“I don’t feel I am a person of interest in my husband’s death,” she told the Daily Herald in 2013. “Most of the money went to the kids. Moneywise, my husband and I together would have earned more in two years than I ever would have gotten from his death, and I still would have had my husband.”

She is due back in court Dec. 13.

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