BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ) – Still no new information on a pair of women killed in separate incidents in the Village of Bellevue over the past three months.
Early Monday, 52-year-old Suzette L. Langlois was found shot to death outside her home, 3020 Manitowoc Road.
“Our investigation is ongoing, obviously because it’s an ongoing investigation I’m not able to get into any of the specifics,” says Todd Delain, Chief Deputy of the Brown County Sheriff’s Department. “We’re putting a tremendous amount of resources on this, we’re following up on a lot of different leads.”
Investigators believe Langlois’ death was not random and the public is not in any danger. While many boxes of evidence was seen taken from her home, a dive team was deployed in a nearby retention pond.
“The best way to describe that is it’s a standard procedure,” Delain explains. “When you’re doing a thorough homicide investigation, we would look at all potential issues, locations of potential evidence and follow up on that.”
Delain says the dive team is part of their normal investigation “where there could be potential evidence in certain locations,” reiterating that investigators are being thorough in their probe.
Back in May, the body of Nicole VanderHeyden was found in a field on Hoffman Road. Just 48 hours after the gruesome discovery, officials made an arrest. However, there wasn’t enough evidence for prosecutors to file charges.
As the family of VanderHeyden continue to seek answers, Delain says they also are playing the waiting game.
“There’s really nothing new I’m able to speak about,” says Delain. “We are continuously sending different pieces of evidence to the State Crime Lab.”
The chief deputy says that restrictions prohibit just how many items the department can send down to Madison. Those get examined, amid the deluge of evidence sent from agencies statewide, and eventually get returned to Brown County.
If there’s a large cache of evidence they need the state to process, this cycle of standby will go on.
“And that’s what’s been occurring and we’re following up on a lot of different leads in that incident as well,” Delain says.
The department expresses optimism that both cases will be solved, which they hope happens sooner rather than later.
