Bernard Fonder

Death by Force

Bernard Fonder, 49, a white male from Milwaukee, was found dead on March 3, 1980, beaten in his bed after suffering several blows to the head inside his own home. In the days leading up to his death, he had given a note to downstairs neighbors naming a former roommate who had assaulted him the previous December, with instructions to give the note to police if anything happened to him. That early clue set the tone of the investigation: intimate, domestic, and anxious, as officers pieced together ...Read More