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Kenosha man to stand trial in woman’s death
By: Associated Press//April 29, 2015//
Listen to this articleFOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A Kenosha man charged with killing a teenager in 1990 has been ordered to stand trial in Fond du Lac County.
Sixty-one-year-old Dennis Brantner faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Berit Beck. The 18-year-old was traveling from her home in Sturtevant to Appleton for a computer training seminar when she disappeared. Her van was found a few days later in a Fond du Lac parking lot, but her body wasn’t found until more than a month later in a ditch in the Fond du Lac County town of Waupun. An autopsy showed she had probably been strangled.
Brantner’s attorney says fingerprint evidence submitted by the state doesn’t mean the defendant killed Beck.
WLUK-TV says Brantner is being held on $1 million bond.
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