Fond du Lac---A 63 year-old Kenosha truck driver will face another trial in the 1990 murder of a Sturtevant woman. Dennis Brantner's first trial last summer for the death of Berit Beck ended with a hung jury. Brantner's attorney argued that there wasn't enough evidence for another trial. But a judge on Monday disagreed. A new trial date hasn't been set. Beck was traveling from her Racine County home to Appleton when she disappeared. Her van was found a few days later, and her body was found after that in a ditch near Waupun. Investigators who'd been re-examining the cold case said they matched Brantner's fingerprints to a print inside Beck's van.
Racine---A physical fitness trainer from Waukesha is facing a pair of felonies for allegedly trying to hit on a 17 year-old female client from Waterford. Josh Maney was charged Monday with exposing a child to harmful material. According to the criminal complaint, the girl told her mother that Maney had been sending her "creepy" Facebook messages. The mother's fiance grabbed the girl's phone and apparently texted some leading lines to Maney. The 33 year-old grabbed the bait, and after a series of steamy exchanges, sent nude photos of himself to the girl's phone. That's when Waterford police stepped in.
Kenosha---The watch is on for signs of tuberculosis in the Kenosha County Detention Center off of Highway 'H'. Late last week an inmate had chest pain and shortness of breath. He was immediately put in isolation and tested for TB. At last word, a TB diagnosis had not yet been confirmed. Other inmates and detention center workers who'd been in contact with the first inmate are being tested for the contagious disease.
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From the Associated Press and the WGTD news staff.