A 21-year-old Ixonia woman has been convicted of helping a convicted killer hide a Beaver Dam man’s body at the Dodge County property where she lived. Dakota Schlesner was found guilty of aiding a felon in Dodge County Circuit Court. She faces up to one and a half years in prison when she is sentenced in January. Schlesner was initially charged with party to a crime of hiding a corpse. Twenty one year old Nigel Schultz of Fond du Lac was earlier convicted of first-degree homicide in Bradlee Gerke’s death and faces a mandatory life sentence. Authorities say Schlesner helped Schultz dispose of the body and did not report the murder to police until her father discovered the grave and called police.
