A Green Bay, Wisconsin woman is alive today — but only barely. She survived being stabbed multiple times in her own home by a man she had never met, a man who decided her voice was loud enough to deserve a death sentence.
Justin Thomas Bacon, 30, was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide after police say he broke into a neighbor’s home and repeatedly stabbed a 39-year-old mother on Tuesday morning. He is currently locked up at Brown County Jail on a $750,000 cash bond.
According to investigators, Bacon was hanging out in a neighbor’s garage when he heard the woman next door raising her voice at one of her children. That was all it took. Without warning, Bacon walked over to her home, forced his way inside, and attacked her.
The victim later told the court exactly what happened in her own words — and her statement is chilling:
“This man is dangerous. I didn’t even realize he was stabbing me until he stabbed me the fourth or fifth time on the right. My children watched me bleed out. He kept saying, ‘Die, b—, die. You’re dead now. You’re dying now.’ He wanted me to die.”
Witnesses outside heard the victim scream. Moments later, Bacon walked out of the house and fled the scene on a blue mountain bike. When neighbors rushed inside, they found her collapsed with a stab wound to the chest. She was rushed to the hospital and survived.
Police tracked Bacon down roughly an hour after the attack. He was found wearing clothes soaked in blood, and investigators believe he may have jumped into a nearby river in an attempt to wash away the evidence. He denied any involvement and claimed he didn’t even know the victim.
What makes this case even more alarming: Bacon had only been out of prison for three weeks. He had just completed a sentence for a 2021 incident in which he beat his own stepfather in the head 12 times with a baseball bat. He pleaded no contest to recklessly endangering safety in that case.
He is now charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, burglary, use of a dangerous weapon, and repeat offender enhancements. His next court date is July 2.
What happens next: With $750,000 bond keeping him behind bars and a mountain of witness testimony and physical evidence, Bacon is unlikely to walk free anytime soon. For the mother who survived, the real question is whether the system will make sure he never gets another chance to do this again.
A woman was just screaming at her kids. She almost died for it. And her children — who watched the whole thing — will carry that memory for the rest of their lives.
