Prosecutors believe the man charged with killing his mother in Appleton had mental health problems.
Investigators think 35-year-old Bradley Boettcher beat his mother to death in the apartment they shared, on the city’s south side, in February. They say he hit 60-year-old Lee Ann Dorn in the head with an unknown object and fractured her skull, before taking her car, cell phone and debit card.
They believe he was heading to the Pentagon when he was arrested the next day in Kentucky for driving drunk. He’s been in custody there, ever since.
Investigators say Boettcher believed he was constantly communicating with a device in his ear, and that he was mainly talking with the C.I.A.
Prosecutors say two of Dorn’s friends repeatedly warned her that Boettcher would kill her someday. One of them says Dorn found meth and a hunting knife in his room, and told him he had to move out by March 1st.
Her body was found in the apartment in the 200 block of Valley Road on February 21st.
Boettcher is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, and prosecutors have a warrant to bring him back to Wisconsin.
