by WRN Contributor | Mar 1, 2018
The family of Berit Beck finally had their day in a Fond du Lac County courtroom Thursday. For more than 27 years they’ve waited for justice for their 18-year-old daughter who was murdered in Fond du Lac in the summer of 1990. “Today there is no hiding for Dennis...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 2, 2018
A 64-year-old Kenosha man has been convicted for a 1990 murder. Dennis Brantner has entered an Alford plea, meaning he has not admitted guilt in the murder of 18-year-old Berit Beck, but concedes that prosecutors have enough evidence to convince a jury. Brantner...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 23, 2017
Fond du Lac County prosecutors will get another opportunity to retry a 63-year-old Kenosha man for the 1990 murder of Berit Beck. Judge Robert Wirtz on Monday denied a motion to dismiss a 1st degree murder charge against Dennis Brantner. The judge ruled there was...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 6, 2016
The man accused in the 1990 murder of Berit Beck will be re-tried by prosecutors. A Fond du Lac County jury was dismissed in June after it was unable to reach a verdict on whether Dennis Branter killed the 18-year-old. District Attorney Eric Toney said Tuesday morning...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 23, 2016
The attorney for a Kenosha man suspected in the July 1990 murder of 18-year-old Berit Beck argues that trying his client a second time for her murder would be double jeopardy. Craig Powell filed a motion in Fond du Lac County Court last Friday on behalf of his client,...
by WRN Contributor | Jul 13, 2016
The 62-year-old Kenosha man suspected of killing Berit Beck will spend time in prison on drug-related charges. A Fond du Lac County judge on Tuesday sentenced Dennis Brantner to six and a half years in prison, plus seven years of extended supervision and 11 years of...
by WRN Contributor | Jul 5, 2016
A hearing in September will determine whether a 62-year-old Kenosha man will be retried for the 1990 murder of Berit Beck. Last week, a Fond du Lac County jury was dismissed after it was unable to reach a verdict in the case against Dennis Brantner. He was charged in...
by WRN Contributor | Jul 4, 2016
The chief prosecutor in Fond du Lac County says he would be willing to retry Dennis Brantner in the murder of Berit Beck. The jury in the first trial was dismissed last week, after it was unable to reach a verdict on charges that the 62-year-old Brantner killed the...
by Andrew Beckett | Jun 29, 2016
A Fond du Lac County judge has dismissed the jury in the trial of a Kenosha man charged in the 1990 murder of a Sturtevant teenager. The decision comes after the jury spent 16 hours deliberating the case and was unable to reach a verdict on whether Dennis Brantner...
by WRN Contributor | Jun 24, 2016
A Fond du Lac County jury Friday watched a video police did with Dennis Brantner at the Kenosha Police Department in March of 2014. Brantner was living in Kenosha at the time. He was confronted with fingerprint evidence taken from Berit Beck’s van. Brantner said...
by WRN Contributor | Jun 14, 2016
A Fond du Lac County jury trial begins Tuesday for a 62-year-old Kenosha man suspected of killing 18-year-old Berit Beck in 1990. Dennis Brantner is being held in the County Jail on a $1 million cash bond on a 1st degree murder charge. In July of 1990 Beck stopped in...
by Andrew Beckett | Feb 20, 2017
The family of an 18-year-old Sturtevant woman murdered in Fond du Lac County in 1990 will have to wait almost another year before the man suspected of killing her is retried. A Fond du Lac County judge on Monday scheduled a four-week trial for 63-year-old Dennis...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 8, 2016
A Fond du Lac County jury Thursday found a 62-year-old Kenosha man suspected of killing Berit Beck guilty of drug and bail jumping charges he was also facing. The drug charges against Dennis Brantner stemmed from a search of him at the Fond du Lac County Jail last...
by WRN Contributor | Aug 14, 2015
New charges have been brought against the 61-year-old Kenosha man suspected of killing Berit Beck in 1990. Ten new charges were brought against Dennis Brantner in Fond du Lac County Court Friday stemming from a search of Brantner during the jail booking process last...
by WRN Contributor | Mar 30, 2015
Prosecutors in Fond du Lac County have charged a Kenosha man with first degree murder in the death of an 18-year-old woman nearly 25 years ago. Police arrested 61-year-old Dennis Brantner Friday for the death of 18-year-old Berit Beck of Sturtevant, whose body was...
by Bob Hague | Mar 27, 2015
An arrest has been made in a 25-year-old Wisconsin homicide. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink said Friday that 61-year-old Dennis Brantner of Kenosha was arrested without incident on an arrest warrant for first-degree murder after making an appearance for an...
