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Jurors to try again after deadlock in 1990 homicide case

By: Associated Press//June 28, 2016//

Jurors to try again after deadlock in 1990 homicide case

By: Associated Press//June 28, 2016//

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Defense attorney Craig Powell addresses the jury during closing arguments of the Dennis Brantner murder trial, Monday, June 27, 2016 in a Fond du Lac County courtroom. Brantner is being tried for the 1990 murder of Berit Beck. (Doug Raflik/The Reporter via AP)
Defense attorney Craig Powell addresses the jury on Monday during closing arguments of the Dennis Brantner murder trial in a Fond du Lac County courtroom. Brantner is being tried for the 1990 murder of Berit Beck. (Doug Raflik/The Reporter via AP)

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — Jurors will try again to reach a verdict after telling the judge they were deadlocked in the trial of a man accused of killing an 18-year-old Wisconsin woman in 1990.

Sixty-two-year-old Dennis Brantner is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Berit Beck. Jurors sent a message to the judge Tuesday saying they could not reach a verdict. The Reporter Media says the judge re-read his instructions to the jury, and jurors agreed to resume deliberations Wednesday.

Beck was traveling from her home in Sturtevant to Appleton for a work 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 Fond du Lac County.

Judge Sharpe discusses with the state and defense attorneys allowing the jury to go home for the day after a second day of deliberation Tuesday June 28, 2016 during the Dennis Brantner murder trial in a Fond du Lac County, Wis., court room. Brantner is being tried for the death of Berit Beck whose remains were discovered in a ditch north of Waupun in 1990. (Doug Raflik/The Reporter via AP)
Judge Gary Sharpe dismisses the jury for the day after a second day of deliberation on Tuesday in the Dennis Brantner murder trial in a Fond du Lac County courtroom. (Doug Raflik/The Reporter via AP)

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