BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the murder of a Ledgeview woman earlier this year.
According to USA Today Network-Wisconsin, 38-year-old George S. Burch was booked into the Brown County Jail on a charge of first-degree intentional homicide at 7:45 a.m. and is expected in court Thursday afternoon.
Burch, sources told the media outlet, is suspected of killing 31-year-old Nicole VanderHeyden. Her body was found in a field off Hoffman Road in Bellevue back on May 21.
Two days later, VanderHeyden’s live-in boyfriend Douglass Detrie was arrested. But the next month, prosecutors said they didn’t have enough evidence to tie Detrie to her murder and released him from jail.
Prosecutors have indicated in prior court hearings that deputies found blood outside the home, blood inside VanderHeyden’s vehicle and a footprint on her body, which they say appears to match a pair of Air Jordan shoes found in Detrie’s home.
No word yet if the Brown County Sheriff’s Department plan to release more information about this development on Thursday.
