Richard DeWitt Bostwick, a 34-year-old male from Bellevue, Wisconsin, was killed on August 28, 2009. He was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and had moved to the Green Bay area in 2002, where he worked in restoration and construction-related roles. Obituaries published at the time record his death as occurring on Friday, August 28, 2009, not August 8, and note ties to both Ottumwa and Bellevue.
According to contemporaneous reporting based on the Brown County Sheriff’s Department, he was shot multiple times in a parking lot in Bellevue by his estranged wife, Barbara Bostwick, 48. The couple had been scheduled to appear in Brown County Circuit Court that afternoon for a motion hearing in their divorce case. Shortly after the shooting, Barbara was found nearby in her car, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities classified the incident as a murder-suicide.
Because the suspected shooter died at the scene, there were no arrests, and investigators closed the case as a domestic-violence homicide followed by suicide. Memorial and obituary records, along with local reporting, collectively establish the sequence and outcome: a fatal domestic shooting in Bellevue, the suspect’s suicide moments later, and no surviving suspect left to charge.
