Convicted Murderer From Brookfield Won't Get New Trial
State appeals court rules against man convicted of murdering girlfriend, burning her body and dumping remains in a lake.
A Brookfield man convicted of strangling his girlfriend, burning her body and then dumping the remains in Lake Winnebago in 2009 is not entitled to a new trial, the state appeals court has ruled. Brandon Mueller, 37, was sentenced in 2010 to life without the possibility of parole for murdering 28-year-old Renee Redmer in his mother's Fond du Lac apartment, the Associated Press reported. After binging on cocaine and alcohol, Mueller and Redmer, of Waukesha, got into an argument that turned physical. Mueller put his hands around Redmer’s neck and she died in the struggle, according to court records. Mueller put Redmer’s body in a cooler in his mother’s garage and, a few weeks later, doused the body in gasoline and burned it in a barrel. …
