The child of the Mequon man accused of killing a Kenosha man inside his apartment and then disposing of the body in spring 2020 testified Wednesday in the high-profile trial
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Anderson and Beacham’s child, who the Kenosha News is not naming, said Anderson asked her to spy on her mother and record with a smartphone “every single time my mother would get upset” and would to try and get Beacham in trouble.
On the night of April 24 to April 25, 2020, the daughter said Anderson drove them both to Beacham’s residence in Germantown to spy on Beacham and Gutierrez, who were inside on the couch, through a window.
The girl said that night Anderson also went through Gutierrez’s truck and took a picture of his license plate and his registration before ringing Beacham’s doorbell and running back to his own vehicle and driving away.
On May 16, the day before prosecutors believe Gutierrez was killed, the girl said Anderson took her and her siblings to his family’s tree farm with his work van, the same van Anderson allegedly drove to a Saukville Walmart the morning of May 18, 2020, to purchase trash bags, cleaning wipes and gloves.
On Wednesday, the girl testified the van was not missing a portion of its carpet and did not have bleach stains on May 16 when she rode in it to the tree farm.
Investigators would later find a
speck of a dried rust colored fluid that tested positive for Gutierrez’s DNA and evidence of scrubbing with bleach. The van also had portions of the interior carpet removed.
She also testified that Anderson had used a racial slur to describe Gutierrez in the past and implied that he would follow him.
“He said something about showing him who the man was, and I didn’t quite understand, but you kind of caught onto things that my dad was referring to or was implying,” the child said. “My dad said to me, he said ‘I may just watch him or follow him to his house one time just for the fun of it.’ Those were his exact words to me.”
Anderson is being held on a $750,000 cash bond at the Kenosha County Jail. He has been in custody since shortly after Gutierrez’s disappearance, initially charged with stalking.
The homicide charge was added in December 2020 after an investigation found evidence that indicated Anderson may have moved Gutierrez’s dead body in his van to another location.