Laura Oleszack, 36
WI, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co.
February 27, 2005
Laura’s murder has left her 3 Children to grow up without their Mother in their lives
Laura died from traumatic head injuries. Her death was ruled a homicide according to medical standards, based on the autopsy findings and conclusion that she died from being pushed and sustaining a blow to the back of her head. Her body had at least ninety bruises. No one has been charged with criminal homicide in Laura’s death.
Laura’s boyfriend and the father of her three children, Scott Brandt, 38, told investigators that he pushed Laura when she tried to take a bottle of vodka from him and she hit her head. He cleaned the wound, gave her some vodka, and they went to sleep. The next morning he found Laura dead and left the house without reporting her death. Relatives found her body later that day.
Two weeks prior to Laura’s death, Scott was arrested and charged with battery after Laura told police that he had slammed her head on a concrete floor and repeatedly punched and kicked her. While jailed on the battery charge and under a no contact order, Scott made twelve phone calls to Laura threatening to kill her and harm her children unless she paid his bail. She posted the bail and he was released ten days prior to her death.
On May 27, 2005, as part of a plea agreement, Scott pled guilty to fourteen counts of misdemeanor Bail Jumping; the pending Battery charge was dismissed. He also pled guilty to one count of Disorderly Conduct and one count of Criminal Damage to Property stemming from a January 15, 2005, incident in which he broke windows in a man’s home and threatened to kill him after he found Laura there. The habitual criminal modifier was applied to each charge because of his past record, which included multiple domestic violence related convictions for bail jumping and disorderly conduct. Scott Brandt was sentenced to twelve and one-half years in prison and eleven and one-half years of extended supervision. He subsequently appealed the judgment and on February 13, 2007, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals rejected his appeal and upheld the sentence.
Sources:
Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence
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