GUILTY WI - DonaMae Bourgeois Bayerl, 38, Muskego, 6 May 1979 *Arrest in 2019*

[mothwings]

https://www.identifyus.org/en/cases/12533

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Muskego police use FBI photo technology to revive 38-year-old cold case

http://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/waukesha/crime/2017/10/24/38-year-cold-case-has-muskego-police-making-another-try-muskego-police-use-fbi-photo-technology-revi/795170001/

Police are taking a shot at solving a nearly 40-year-old missing person case by asking the public to look at a photograph of how the 38-year-old missing woman might look today.

Muskego Police worked with family members and forensic artists at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, to develop the age-progressed photograph.

Charley Project

 

[MelmothTheLost]

So the husband remarried 18 months after his wife's disappearance, and his second wife left him after 8 months because he tried to choke her.

I wonder what the then 7-year-old remembers of events around the time of her mother's disappearance.

 

[JerseyGirl]

I wonder what the then 7-year-old remembers of events around the time of her mother's disappearance.

sounds like they may have been brainwashed:

"The police would come I would just tell them basically what I was told from my dad I think, which was that I went to bed, he heard some noises like a door slam or something like that and when I woke up she wasn't there," said Jarvis.

"The vivid things that I do remember are being very afraid and police coming into the house and I would hide," said Kort.

http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/forensic-photo-gives-hope-to-daughters-of-mom-missing-since-1979

 

[Sulamith]

The Vanished Podcast has an episode on Dona May Bayerl : http://www.thevanishedpodcast.com/e...-124-dona-mae-bayerl-part-1-lost-in-the-night

 

[folieadeuxnola]

New leads surface in 40-year-old cold case in Muskego

Police have new leads in a nearly 40-year-old missing person case.

Dona Mae Bayerl and John Bayerl had two daughters and a home in Muskego, but police said John Bayerl had a history of domestic violence.

John Bayerl told police the couple had a fight, and Dona Mae took off in the car to cool off. He said he heard her car pull back into the garage, but she never came inside the house. That was in 1979.

 

[mothwings]

I can most certainly confirm the sisters are not "brainwashed". They have different views but one of the sisters is strongly convinced he is guilty and doesn't speak to him.

As is – I think circumstantial case could be tried. Not much to lose. He is 80. The blood evidence in the garage is pretty powerful.

I love that the FBI is assisting.

 

[Donas2nd]

There are 3 parts to The Vanished Podcast for Dona Bayerl.

 

[Donas2nd]

Part 2 of the podcast
EPISODE 125: Dona Mae Bayerl Part 2 - Cycles of Abuse

 

[Donas2nd]

EPISODE 126: Dona Mae Bayerl Part 3 - The Aftermath

 

[namstache]

John Bayerl has been taken into custody and is facing a charge of first degree murder in this case.

 

[cybervampira]

Suspect in 40-year-old Muskego cold case arrested in Florida

A 40-year-old investigation into a missing Wisconsin woman ended earlier this week when members of the Muskego Police Department arrested a cold case suspect in Ft. Myers, Florida.

John Bayerl, 78, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of 1st Degree Murder in the disappearance of his wife, Dona Mae Bayerl, who police say was 38 years old when she disappeared.

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[JerseyGirl]

Bayerl long maintained that his then-wife, Dona Mae Bayerl, left home following an argument and never returned. John Bayerl was granted a divorce a year after she disappeared. Dona Mae Bayerl was legally declared dead in 1986.

Dona Mae's body has never been found.

Man arrested in Florida in connection with 1979 Muskego cold case

Man in Fort Myers arrested for 1979 murder in Wisconsin

 

[mothwings]

HOLY CRAP! Almost 40-years to-the-date! I haven't read all of the criminal complaint but they do have a strong case against this guy. He made a lot of mistakes in this crime. No-body trials are a bit of a rarity in Wisconsin. There is Krista Sypher's and now this.

Let's hope for justice for DonaMae! It's about time!

 

[Ali.]

I have a feeling he's going to be offered a plea deal with a very lenient sentence in exchange for the location of her remains. It's a last ditch effort to find Dona and get closure for her family before he passes - I hope it works.

 

[namstache]

I attended John's hearing today. The defense will be challenging the criminal complaint at the next hearing.

 

[YESorNO]

Former Muskego man charged in 40-year-old cold case

Feb 21, 2019

 

[mothwings]

If they don't offer a plea deal, I think the most powerful form of evidence they will have is those photos of the blood spatter. I believe the defense and prosecution will call some of top blood-spatter experts in the country to this case if they do plan on taking this to trial. This case has many parallels with the Michele Harris case. The FBI was already involved. I haven't read the full criminal complaint but hopefully the investigators took some of those bottles with the blood spatter on them. Not sure how they'd determine the blood to be DonaMae's but who else would have their blood-spatter in the garage but the missing DonaMae. It was in the garage (just like Michele Harris') where DonaMae was last heard leaving from.

 

[mothwings]

It does say that blood swabs were taken to the lab. It also says the rug and quilt he was washing also taken to the crime lab. It just doesn't say what the results were.

Muskego Police arrest husband in 40-year-old cold case

 

[Niner]

Future court activity
Date Time Location Description Type Court official
03-11-2019 03:00 pm C266 Motion hearing Court Scullen, Sara

link: Wisconsin Circuit Court Access