MADISON - A judge
in Fond du Lac has sentenced a man accused of killing a young
go-go dancer more than three decades ago to life in prison.
Prosecutors
accused 53-year-old Thomas Niesen of Ashwaubenon of slashing
Kathleen Leichtman's throat in July 1976 and leaving her body by
the side of a road. Leichtman, of Milwaukee, had come to Fond du
Lac to dance at The Other Place bar.
Police arrested
Niesen in February after analysts determined DNA showed he had sex
with Leichtman up to 26 hours before she died.
A jury found
Niesen guilty of first-degree murder in September. Fond du Lac
County Circuit Judge Dale L. English handed down the sentence
Friday.
