Kewaunee County prosecutors on August 1, 2006, dismissed murder charges against Beth LaBatte, who had been convicted and imprisoned in the 1991 deaths of sisters Ceil and Ann Cadigan in their Kewaunee County farmhouse. 

LaBatte’s case was championed by the UW Law School’s Innocence Project, which won motions to have evidence from the case re-analyzed using current DNA technology. The state decided to drop charges as the case was about to go to trial for a second time.

An article by reporter Andy Nelesen in the August 2 edition of the Green Bay Press Gazette gives more information; see

www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060802/GPG0101/608020593/1978 .

Submitted by on August 29, 2006

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