Crime & Safety

Tosa Man Questioned in Brookfield Homicide Committed Suicide

The man, a Wauwatosa police clerk, had phone contact with one of the suspects at the time frame of Brookfield businessman John Aegerter's murder, reports say.

Shortly after Brookfield police questioned a Wauwatosa police clerk about his potential involvement in the murder of Brookfield businessman John Aegerter, the clerk committed suicide, according to a Journal Sentinel report.

Mark Finken fatally shot himself in Wauwatosa July 23, leaving suicide notes behind saying he was not involved in the June 22 homicide of Aegerter, the Journal Sentinel report says.

Police questioned him about four calls he received from Lynn Hajny and one call he made to her late June 21, according to the report.

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Aegerter was the morning of June 22, bound and gagged in his Brookfield garage with an electrical cord around his neck. Aegerter, 63, and communications businesses, including Air Page Corp.

Hajny, 49, and Tommy Douyette, 42, were arrested later that day in Slinger and . A criminal complaint said the two went to Aegerter's house to confront him about money they said he owed Hajny's husband for work at Air Page.

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Prosecutors in recent months gave defense attorneys . Hajny and Douyette are asking for separate jury trials.


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