1-31-20 murder accomplice placed on probation

A 21-year-old Ixonia woman has been placed on probation for  helping a convicted killer  hide a Beaver Dam man’s body at the Dodge County property where she lived.   Dodge County Circuit judge Brian Pfitzinger placed Dakota Schlesner on two years probation with 10 months in jail.   Schlesner was earlier  found guilty of aiding a felon.  Twenty one year old Nigel Schultz of  Fond du Lac was earlier convicted of  first-degree homicide  in the shooting death of Bradlee Gerke and sentenced  to life in prison.   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.