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Bart Oliver

Case from Brookfield, WI dated Mar 12, 2005

Victim Details

Bart Oliver

Male

White / Caucasian

Brookfield

WI

2005-03-12

15

Bart

Oliver

07/01/2026

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On a seemingly ordinary Saturday, the 12th of March, 2005, the life of 15-year-old Bart Oliver, a White male, was tragically cut short in what should have been a place of peace. He was attending a weekly Sabbath service for the Living Church of God, held within a conference room at a Sheraton hotel in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The sermon had already begun when the tranquility of the gathering was shattered by a member of their own congregation.

Terry Ratzmann, a 44-year-old computer technici ...
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