After years of dead ends, fingerprints help break Berit Beck case - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Brantner wasn't a murder suspect until he was finally linked to fingerprints from inside a slain girl's van, police say. Two days later, her van was found in a Kmart parking lot in Fond du Lac. Since then, her unsolved killing has haunted her family and detectives with the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office. 27, 2014, a crime lab analyst informed a sheriff's detective that five previously unidentified fingerprints on objects collected from Beck's van — a Burger King cup, a Boldt Construction employee manual and a Jolen hair bleach kit — matched... At the time, detectives didn't know Brantner, 61, once stole a woman's underwear from a West Allis hotel and slid a note under her door, offering to give the clothes back if the woman let him perform a sex act on her. On Monday, Brantner was charged in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court with felony murder in Beck's killing. Teen didn't arrive for class Beck was reported missing when she didn't show up for her 1 p. m. computer class in Appleton on July 17, 1990. She had been driving her family's two-tone 1987 GMC van that was discovered two days later abandoned in a... Source: www.jsonline.com
