
#FLORIDA MAN JUNE 6 1979 UPDATE#
Investigators spoke with John Bayerl again in July of 2018 to update him on the investigation. You know what I mean? I don't think she's alive." Because if it was, she would have found her way back, whatever. According to prosecutors, John Bayerl said "Something happened and I, it, I, I'm sure that her heart's not beating.

One of the children, in 2009, had a conversation with John Bayerl about Dona Bayerl, the complaint said. The complaint noted John Bayerl's third wife contacted authorities in July of 1981, "seeking information about the case because John had changed in several ways since the day of the wedding, and had subjected her to physical violence." She said she "no longer felt comfortable with John and was fearful of another beating in the future." The sister also reported one of the children told her: "I don't want to be a nurse anymore, because when people fight, their faces get bloody." The statement was made in the days after Dona Bayerl's disappearance, according to the complaint. A rug and quilt that he hand-washed were taken to the Crime Lab for analysis. The sister reported she had to come over and do it. She said when she told him she filed divorce papers, he choked her and said he continued to harass her after their divorce.ĭona Bayerl's sister noted the day after her disappearance, John Bayerl did the laundry, which Dona Bayerl's sister thought was odd because he had never done the laundry, even after Dona Bayerl hemorrhaged after giving birth to her second child. The complaint said police interviewed John Bayerl's first wife, who indicated he struck or pushed her 15 to 20 times in their last two years of marriage. "The police came around and just asked if we knew anything, we heard anything and we had no idea that anything had happened," said Crnkovich.ĭetectives from the Muskego Police Department traveled to Fort Myers, Florida and took Bayerl into custody.Ī criminal complaint said John Bayerl told investigators his marriage to Dona was "a bad one." He admitted to fighting with his wife "on several occasions" and said he had "struck or pinched" his wife previously. Rose Crnkovich lives a few houses away and remembers the day Dona went missing. Police said an investigation revealed blood in the garage of the Muskego home, determined to be Dona Bayerl's, which John Bayerl had no explanation for, prosecutors said.

On May 9, 1979, Bayerl stated that his wife stormed out of their home after an argument and had not been seen since.

Police said Bayerl lived with his wife and their children, ages 7 and 4, at a home on Fennimore Lane in Muskego. There is also evidence that's alleged she was devoted to the children she had and the children have not had contact with her either." "The state has detailed that there has been no evidence the alleged victim here has been known of through financial records. It's a rather unique homicide in that there is no body that has been recovered," said the court commissioner.
