An over the road trucker from Kenosha has lost his appeal to have his conviction in the death of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County overturned. The Second District Court of Appeals has denied Dennis Brantner’s appeal to vacate his conviction of second degree reckless homicide in the 1990 death of Berit Beck. Brantner argued the conviction should be vacated because the evidence presented during his jury trial for first degree intentional homicide was insufficient and the court erred in not dismissing the case. He said his conviction for second degree reckless homicide was a violation of the double jeopardy clause. The appeals court disagreed. Beck disappeared after stopping at the Forest Mall in July of 1990. Her body was found about a month later in a roadside ditch near Waupun. Brantner was arrested more than two decades later after new DNA technology matched his fingerprints to prints found in Beck’s van.
