A Kenosha man charged in the cold case murder of Berit Beck in Fond du Lac County has been convicted in a drug case. A Fond du Lac jury deliberated less than two hours Thursday afternoon before finding Dennis Brantner guilty on all ten counts including bail jumping and drug possession . Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney is pleased. “The jury paid careful attention to all of the evidence and rendered their verdict and I was obviously pleased to see what we feel is a fair and just outcome,” Toney told WFDL news. A pre-sentence investigation was ordered. The prescription medication pills were found in one of Brantner’s boots as he was being booked into the jail last spring after his arrest for the Beck murder. The charges carry a maximum sentence of more than 20 years in prison. Meanwhile Brantner is being held in the Jail on a million dollars cash bail on charges of first degree murder. He was charged in the 1990 murder of Berit Beck after his fingerprints were found in Beck’s van. She disappeared after stopping at the Fond du Lac Forest Mall while enroute to a work seminar in Appleton. Her body was found about a month later in a roadside ditch near Waupun.
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