Cold case trial: husband accused of wife’s 1979 murder
(WTMJ/NBC News) The murder trial has begun for a 40-year-old Wisconsin cold case.
John Bayerl of Florida is accused of killing his wife in 1979. Her body was never found.
Bayerl, now 79, claims his wife, Dona Mae, went for a drive following an argument and never returned.
Dona Mae’s sister, Joan Bourgeois, moved in with Bayerl a couple days later to help watch his daughters.
Bourgeois testified she was suspicious of John’s role in Dona Mae’s disappearance from the beginning, and on three occasions accused him of murdering her sister.
When asked why she believed he killed Dona Mae, Bourgeois replied “Because Dona Mae never would have left her girls. He said police had put those thoughts in my head. I said no, I know my sister and she would never leave her daughters. Never.”
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