Missing Woman: Becky Marzo Kraemer--WI--12/13/2003

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Endangered Missing Adult
If you believe you have any information regarding this case that will be helpful in this investigation please contact:
Milwaukee Police Department at (414) 935-7403

Name: Becky Marie Marzo

Classification: Endangered Missing Adult
Alias / Nickname: Becky Kraemer
Date of Birth: 1980-05-03
Date Missing: 2003-12-15
From City/State: Milwaukee, WI
Missing From (Country): USA
Age at Time of Disappearance: 23
Gender: Female
Race: White
Height: 61 inches
Weight: 130 pounds
Hair Color: Blonde
Eye Color: Blue
Complexion: Light
Glasses/Contacts Description: Glasses with oval silver wire frames.
Identifying Characteristics: Scar on left wrist, tattoo on lower back (possibly a colored "rose"), double pierced ears, previously fractured nose, scarring in both ears from tubes, tonsils removed.

Circumstances of Disappearance: Unknown. Becky was last seen in the late evening hours at her residence in the vicinity of the 3100 block of N. 5th St. in Milwaukee, WI. She may be in the Miami, FL area.

Investigative Agency: Milwaukee Police Department
Phone: (414) 935-7403
Investigative Case #: 04-M3910
NCIC #: M-904430955

http://www.theyaremissed.org/ncma/ga...hp?A200402014S

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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?n... 173492&rfi=6

Family to hold vigil for missing woman

Clark, staff writer December 01, 2005

Karren Kraemer said she has been living a slowly dawning nightmare since Dec. 13, 2003.

That was the last day anyone saw her daughter, Becky Marzo, then 23, alive.

Marzo was living with her boyfriend in the 3100 block of North 5th Street in Milwaukee, where she was last seen in the late evening hours.

Kraemer said she believes her daughter was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her 37-year-old boyfriend.

A spokesperson for the Milwaukee Police Department said the unsolved case is open and under investigation.

The Oconomowoc mother's pain and persistence over finding out what happened to her daughter has led her to organize a vigil Dec. 11 at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.

The vigil will be held at 1 p.m. and Kraemer said she hopes the gathering will bring attention to Marzo's case.

Representatives of the Carol Sung Foundation will be on hand to announce a reward for the recovery of Marzo's remains and for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for her disappearance.

Kraemer said a speaker from the Sojourner Truth House will speak about domestic violence at the vigil, as well as spokespersons for the Wisconsin Advocates for Missing Persons and the Coalition for Missing in the Midwest.

Kraemer said she and her family became aware of Marzo's violent relationship when her daughter came to them after been beaten by her boyfriend in March 2003. She suffered a broken nose, had hunks of her hair pulled out and had been choked.

Marzo, at her family's insistence, made a complaint to police and battery charges were filed against the man, who had a prior record for domestic disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon.

Kraemer said that after the battering, Marzo left the state and went to Florida with friends to work for two months.

Upon returning, despite her family's grave concern, Marzo resumed her relationship with the man and discontinued communication with her family, Kraemer said.

At subsequent court dates for the battery charge, Marzo failed to appear and, as a result, the case was dismissed.

Kraemer said she believed her daughter was afraid for her life and that of her family.

Co-workers at a Milwaukee Target store where Marzo worked later told Kraemer that she continued to suffer beatings from her boyfriend and often came to work bruised and depressed.

In January 2004, Kraemer said she began leaving messages on her daughter's cell phone, all of which went unanswered. The fact that her phone was still in service led Kraemer to believe she was OK.

But by June, Kraemer said, she began to become alarmed. The death of Marzo's grandfather and a brother's accident had occurred with no word from her.

The family had never met Marzo's boyfriend, and believed her relationship with the man was keeping her away, but Kraemer said the loss of her grandfather would have brought her home, regardless.

Kraemer said she began calling friends, co-workers and Marzo's ex-husband for news of Marzo. Alarmed, Kraemer tried tracking down her daughter's boyfriend, unsure of his whereabouts.

Kraemer said that by the time she went to the Milwaukee Police Department to file a missing persons report, she knew in her heart her daughter was dead.

Police questioned the boyfriend, who Kraemer said lied about her daughter, characterizing her as a drug addict, prostitute and runaway.

Kraemer said the lies compounded the family's pain and may have contributed to a lack of urgency police seemed to exhibit in the early stages of the case.

Kraemer said, to her knowledge, her daughter had never been involved in any kind of illicit behavior. She noted that to be employed at Target, she would have had to pass drug testing.

"Becky was a great kid growing up," Kraemer said. "She was never in any trouble and was your typical high school 'band' kid, traveling with her high school band and having fun."

Kraemer said her daughter always gravitated toward the underdog, or the person most needing help, and that she applauded her for her compassion - a compassion she now says might have cost her her life.

"She loved this man and, like many abused women, isolated herself from her family," Kraemer said.

Becky Marzo was one of five children Kraemer and her husband, David, have raised, two of who are Oconomowoc High School grads.

Kraemer said she feels like she has been fighting an uphill battle to find out Becky's fate, but at least now, experts in the field are starting to listen.

In August, Marzo's plight and information was entered into the National Criminal Investigative Center database, and she is listed as a missing person on state and national missing persons Web sites.

In addition, Kraemer's efforts to find her daughter have attracted the support and attention of high profile prosecuting attorney Ellen Corcella, and the services of a local private investigator, both of who are working on the case pro bono.

"Both believe there is enough evidence to support a case of homicide and a civil suit of wrongful death," Kraemer said.

Milwaukee Police Public Information Officer Annie Schwartz said the department is looking at all options in Marzo's disappearance. The case is now in the hands of the Sensitive Crime Unit.

"Becky was a wonderful person and she didn't deserve to die like this." Kraemer said.

Kraemer said she hopes the vigil will help people understand the urgency of helping victims of domestic abuse.

According to a domestic violence Web Site, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that in 1996, among all female murder victims in the U.S., 30 percent were slain by husbands or boyfriends.

One-third of all female homicide victims are killed by husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends or ex-boyfriends and more than twice as many women are killed by their husbands or boyfriend as are murdered by strangers, the Web site said.

According to government statistics, on average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends in this country every day. In 1999, 1,642 murders were attributed to intimates; 74 percent of the murder victims (1,218 total) were women.

Females accounted for 39 percent of the hospital emergency department visits for violence-related injuries in 1994 . They account for 84 percent of those treated for injuries inflicted by intimates.

Family violence costs the nation from $5 to $10 billion annually in medical expenses, police and court costs, shelters and foster care, sick leave, absenteeism and nonproductivity.

Anyone with information about Becky Marzo's disappearance is asked to call the Milwaukee Police Department at (414) 935-7403.

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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?n...d=173492&rfi=6

Local woman still working hard for info on lost daughter

June 08, 2006
Jonna Clark, staff writer

City of Oconomowoc - The Oconomowoc mother of a missing young woman is calling local women to come together to help her create awareness.

Karren Kraemer said she is looking for help from her community to put together an event to highlight the dangers of domestic violence, and to raise funds to add to reward money being offered for information about her daughter Becky Marzo's disappearance in December 2003.

"Domestic violence is what killed my daughter," Kraemer said.

Kraemer and her family have offered a $30,000 reward for any information about Marzo's disappearance and suspected murder, but have learned that more may be needed to bring forth informants.

Marzo, 23, was living in the 3100 block of North 5th Street in Milwaukee, where she was last seen in the late evening hours at the residence she shared with her boyfriend.

Kraemer said she believes her daughter was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her then 37-year-old boyfriend, who is considered a person of interest in the case.

The Milwaukee Police Department has said the unsolved case is open and under investigation, and Kraemer said she hopes arrests come soon.

The Oconomowoc mother's pain and persistence over finding out what happened to her daughter led her to organize a vigil in December 2005 at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and to countless hours of her own legwork and investigation of what may have befallen Becky.

Kraemer said she hopes interested community members will step forward to assist her in keeping Becky's case and the issue of domestic violence alive.

"I have been so busy trying to catch the bad guy that I don't have the community connections I normally would," she added, and said that is why she is issuing the call for volunteers.

Kraemer said she and her family became aware of Marzo's violent relationship when her daughter came to them after having been beaten in March 2003, allegedly by her boyfriend.

Marzo suffered a broken nose, had hunks of her hair pulled out and had been choked.

Marzo, at her family's insistence, made a complaint to police and battery charges were filed against the man, who had a prior record for domestic disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon.

Despite her family's grave concern, Kraemer said Marzo resumed her relationship with the man and discontinued communication with her family.

Kraemer said she believed her daughter was afraid for her life and that of her family.

Marzo's co-workers later told Kraemer that she continued to suffer beatings from the boyfriend and often came to work bruised and depressed.

In January 2004, Kraemer said she began leaving messages on her daughter's cell phone, all of which went unanswered.

By June, Kraemer said she began to become alarmed. The death of Marzo's grandfather and a brother's accident had occurred with no word from her.

Kraemer said by the time she went to the Milwaukee Police Department to file a missing persons report, she believed in her heart her daughter was dead.

Becky Marzo was one of five children Kraemer and her husband David have been raising, two of them Oconomowoc High School grads.

Kraemer has been fighting an uphill battle to find out Becky's fate, and though she cannot say anything about the newest developments in the case, she is finally hopeful arrests may be coming soon.

Kraemer said she has had the help of high-profile prosecuting attorney Ellen Corcella and the services of a local private investigator, both of whom are working on the case pro bono.

"Becky was a wonderful person and she didn't deserve to die like this." Kraemer said.

Kraemer said anyone in the community interested in helping the family organize a fundraising event to boost the reward fund should call her at (262) 434-0219.

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Missing woman's reward fund grows to $100,000

Jonna Clark, Staff Writer June 29, 2006

City of Oconomowoc - A reward fund for information on the disappearance of a former resident got a big boost this week when it was announced a Crime Stopper's philanthropist had pledged $70,000.

Karren Kraemer and her family originally put up $30,000 for any information about her daughter, Becky Marzo, and her disappearance and suspected murder.

Kraemer has been networking with a nationwide group of families of missing children, media outlets and crime experts and through those contacts was introduced to the donor, Joe Mammana, a well-to-do Philadelphia-based businessman with a colorful past - and a commitment to helping hurting families.

The $70,000 will be added to money already given by Marzo's family. Supporters hope the hefty reward will bring forth information about Marzo's disappearance in December 2003.

Mammana first made headlines by posting a $100,000 reward in the Natalee Holloway case when the college student was reported missing in Aruba.

Since then, Mammana has made the same offer in other cases.

Kraemer also said she has received offers of help from Oconomowoc people interested in helping her keep Marzo's case in the public eye as well as raise awareness for the issue of domestic violence.

A local event is being planned for sometime this summer or early fall and Kraemer said she is hard at work having a missing persons poster created and distributed throughout Milwaukee and Lake Country.

In addition, Kraemer said she has developed contacts within the Fox Network.

"National exposure for Becky's case is coming," she said.

The Milwaukee Police Department has said the unsolved case is open and under investigation, and Kraemer said she is hopeful that arrests may be coming soon.

The Oconomowoc mother's pain and persistence over finding out what happened to her daughter led her to organize a vigil in December 2005 at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and to countless hours of her own "legwork" and investigation of what may have befallen Marzo.

Marzo, 23, was living in the 3100 block of North 5th Street, Milwaukee, where she was last seen in the late evening hours Dec. 13, 2003, at the residence she shared with her boyfriend.

Kraemer said she believes her daughter was the victim of domestic violence at the hands of her then 37-year-old boyfriend, who is considered a person of interest in the case.

Kraemer said she and her family became aware of Marzo's violent relationship when her daughter came to them after having been beaten in March 2003, allegedly by her boyfriend.

Marzo suffered a broken nose, had hunks of her hair pulled out and had been choked.

Marzo, at her family's insistence, made a complaint to police and battery charges were filed against the man who had a prior record for domestic disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon.

Despite her family's grave concern, Kraemer said Marzo resumed her relationship with the man and discontinued communication with her family.

Kraemer said she believed her daughter was afraid for her life and that of her family.

Marzo's co-workers later told Kraemer that she continued to suffer beatings from the boyfriend and often came to work bruised and depressed.

In January 2004, Kraemer said she began leaving messages on her daughter's cell phone, all of which went unanswered.

By June, Kraemer said she began to become alarmed. The death of Marzo's grandfather and a brother's accident had occurred with no word from her.

Kraemer said by the time she went to the Milwaukee Police Department to file a missing persons report, she knew in her heart her daughter was dead.

Becky Marzo was one of five children Kraemer and her husband, David, have been raising, two of them Oconomowoc High School grads.

Kraemer has been fighting an uphill battle to find out Marzo's fate, and though she cannot say anything about the newest developments in the case, she is finally hopeful much-need attention to the case is coming.

"Becky was a wonderful person and she didn't deserve to die like this." Kraemer said.

Kraemer said anyone in the community interested in helping the family organize a fundraising event to boost awareness should call her at (262) 434-0219.

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Family web site

http://www.findbeckykraemer.com/

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The Charley Project: Becky Marie Marzo


Above Images: Marzo, circa 2003



Details of Disappearance
Marzo was last seen in the late evening hours of December 15, 2003, at her residence in the vicinity of the 3100 block of north 5th Street in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has never been heard from again.
Marzo's mother stated that her daughter's live-in boyfriend abused her and Marzo had been severely beaten by him once; her nose was broken, her hair was pulled out and she was choked. He has a prior criminal record for weapons and domestic disorderly conduct charges. Marzo filed charges against him, then moved to Florida, where she stayed for two months. When she returned to Wisconsin, she resumed her relationship with her boyfriend and failed to appear in court about the charges against him; they were dropped as a result. Marzo became estranged from her family at about that time, but her coworkers at the Target store where she was employed later stated she was often bruised and seemed depressed.

Marzo's mother reported her missing in June 2004. Her mother became alarmed when Marzo failed to make contact with the family after her grandfather died and her brother had an accident. Marzo's boyfriend has not been cooperative with the police in the investigation into her disappearance. Her family believes her boyfriend may have been involved in her case.

Marzo may have traveled to the Miami, Florida area after her disappearance, but her mother believes she is deceased. She graduated from Oak Creek High School in 1998, and married and divorced prior to her disappearance. She enjoys a variety of music. Her case remains unsolved.

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MILWAUKEE MISSING ENDANGERED: Becky Marie Kraemer Marzo

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 29, 2006

State Representative Joel M. Keefisch
608-266-8551

Local vigil for missing woman set
Kleefisch to speak at Midwest Coalition for the Missing event in Oconomowoc

MADISON– Karren Kraemer, of Oconomowoc, announced today that Rep. Joel Kleefisch will be speaking at a Dec. 17 vigil for her daughter Becky, who has been missing since December 2003. Kraemer has been instrumental in founding the Midwest Coalition for the Missing and tireless in her search for answers in her daughter's disappearance.

Becky Kraemer was a victim of domestic abuse, and is believed to have been murdered by her boyfriend.

"Domestic violence is a very serious problem in Wisconsin. Approximately, 1.5 million women are assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States," Kleefisch said. "Of the almost 4,000 cases of suspected abuse reported in Wisconsin in 2003, more than one in 11 involved either a fatal or life-threatening situation."

According to the Bureau of Justice, a woman is more likely to be assaulted, injured, raped or killed by an intimate partner than by any other type of assailant.

"We have to do more to educate those that are trapped in these dangerous relationships," Kleefisch said. "For them and for their families. Three million children in this country are exposed to domestic violence in their homes each year."

Kleefisch also said more must be done to help the families of the victims of violence and the missing, including legislation that would create a DNA database for all missing persons in Wisconsin. Such a database would allow all remains that are discovered to be quickly identified.

"Recently, two states have enacted new provisions requiring their DNA databases include missing persons' family members for the purpose of identification. People in Wisconsin, like Karren and her family, should not have to wonder if their child or loved one's remains have been found and left to languish due to lack of identification protocol," Kleefisch said.

The vigil for Becky Kraemer will be held at the Lord of Life Lutheran Church, N60 W35980 N. Lake Drive, at 2 p.m. and will also feature speakers form the Waukesha Women's Center and a coffee reception afterwards. The public is invited.

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Printable flyer:
http://www.findbeckykraemer.com/files/beckysflier.pdf

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Body exhumed in search for woman
Mother not giving up quest to find missing daughter

By ANNYSA JOHNSON
anjohnson@journalsentinel.com
Posted: April 19, 2007

One body has been exhumed and at least one more exhumation is planned as part of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of a Milwaukee woman, whose mother has waged a national campaign to convince authorities that she is dead and to find her remains.

The exhumations, at a Kenosha cemetery, are being conducted outside of a 5-month-old John Doe investigation into the disappearance of Becky Marzo, who was last seen walking into her N. 5th St. apartment in December 2003.

Electronic court records have confirmed the existence of the John Doe hearings in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, but officials and those likely to have been subpoenaed have declined to comment, citing the secrecy of the proceedings. Assistant Milwaukee County District Attorney Mark Williams said this week that the examinations of graves are unrelated to the John Doe probe.

Marzo's mother, Karren Kraemer of Oconomowoc, said she paid $1,700 for the first exhumation, which was overseen by the Milwaukee Police Department earlier this year.

"We have every intention of exhuming as many graves as necessary," said Kraemer, who is working to found a non-profit group to aid families of missing persons and is lobbying for legislation to create a DNA database for identifying victims' remains.

Kraemer's representative in the state Assembly, Oconomowoc Republican Joel Kleefisch, said he is exploring such legislation.

"We're trying to find out if there's a way to do it and what the cost would be," he said.

Marzo was 23 when she was last seen by two friends entering the apartment she shared with her boyfriend, who has been described by Kraemer and others as abusive.

Police initially dismissed her as an adult runaway who left of her own accord, after her boyfriend told investigators that she had gone to Florida to work as a prostitute. Hers is officially listed as a missing persons case, but Milwaukee police also are investigating it as a homicide.

Since Marzo's disappearance, her mother says, there has been no activity on her Social Security number or credit cards. She's not been arrested. No bills have been paid. And her driver's license expired and has not been renewed.

The investigation has centered around the boyfriend, whom police have questioned, along with several family members.

The body that was exhumed and the one expected to follow were buried by the boyfriend's uncle, who operates funeral homes in southeastern Wisconsin. Investigators are opening the graves in an effort to find Marzo's body.

His attorney, John Fuchs, said this week that the uncle was not involved in Marzo's disappearance.

"I don't believe my client has anything to do with any criminal activity," Fuchs said.

National attention
The Marzo case has drawn national attention. Philadelphia businessman Joe Mammana, who has made a name bankrolling "bounties" in prominent missing persons cases, has offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction or the discovery of Marzo's remains. And the NBC television program "Dateline" has a program on the case in production.
JS Online: Body exhumed in search for woman

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18561759/page/2/A mother's search for a missing daughterKarren Kraemer is following the trail anywhere to find her daughter, Becky. Did she run away or did an abusive boyfriend have something to do with it?
This report aired Tuesday, May 8 on Dateline NBC

MILWAUKEE - At 5 a.m., October 10, 2006 on one of the meanest streets in the city of Milwaukee, Karren Kraemer, a mother of five from the suburbs is all alone, struggling in the dark and the cold.
Karren Kraemer, Becky's mother: Whoever would think that a mother would have to do anything like that?
It's a mother's desperate quest to find out what happened to her daughter.

Karren Kraemer: I should feel fear but I don't. I feel like the answers are there. Every place you go, you look. You drive past a house and you wonder could that be the place...
Where is she? Could the answer lie in a house? In a closet? Behind cobwebs? Or could the answer be buried here in this cemetery? Or somewhere along these railroad tracks? Karren is following the trail anywhere it leads to find her daughter.
Rob Stafford, Dateline correspondent: If you see a young woman walking down the street, do do you look over?
Karren Kraemer: Uh-huh (affirms). Absolutely. Especially if she's blonde.
Karren's desperate search is for her daughter Becky Marzo. She'd be 26 years old now, but still her mother's little girl.
Karren Kraemer: Loved to be a center of attention. And she always laughed. Everything was funny.
But as a young child Becky was always sick, she had infections, sinus problems, and over 18 surgeries involving her ears.
Karren Kraemer: When she was in school she always had to sit up close to the teacher. So she could hear what was going on. She had a hearing impairment.
Stafford: So Becky's a girl that mom worries about from day one?
Karren Kraemer: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Inspite of her hearing loss, Becky always loved music. In high school, she was in the band and the group took a trip to New York City where she saw homeless people for the first time.
Karren Kraemer: I was proud of her. She gave away her lunch. There were 20 kids that went on this part of the trip to Central Park. And she made everybody give up their lunches.
Stafford: So if Becky sees someone in need, she's determined to help that person?
Karren Kraemer: Yeah, absolutely.
Becky married briefly and when the marriage failed she came home to live with her family.
Stafford: You two had a pretty special bond. Can you talk about that a little bit?
David Kraemer, Becky's father: Well, she was my daughter. We did things together. We hunted together.
Stafford: (laughing) I'm shocked. She deer hunting or what?
David Kraemer: Yup, she deer hunted.
Stafford: Did she like it or she was just doing that because you?
David Kraemer: She did it for a couple of years to keep me happy.
But the happy family life ended when she became involved with a man 11 years older and moved in with him in downtown Milwaukee. Her parents say he always refused to come to their home and meet them. His name was Carl Rogers, Jr.
David Kraemer: -we didn't know a lot about him. And Becky kind of changed. She wasn't the same. She was distant. And at the time we didn't know why.
Then one time she came home, her parents were shocked.
David Kraemer: She was bruised. She had a broken nose. She had some cuts and stuff. Basically looked abused.
Stafford: That must have been difficult for you as a dad. Tell me about that.
David Kraemer: I kind of at the time I had given her an ultimatum. And said, "What you need to do is you need to get a restraining order, put a stop to this."
He says Becky admitted to being abused and to get a restraining order, but when she did not show up for a hearing, the case was dismissed and she was back with the man she says abused her. According to her parents, a fateful move that would have terrible consequence.

David Kraemer: I was very upset and angry. And I guess the only thing I could do is she's an adult was try and persuade her to stay away from him. And I think he had control over her.
Karren Kraemer: My husband's talking to her and I'm talking to her and we're telling her. And you know we're telling her, "He's gonna kill you. You know, this isn't just something you see on TV. This happens in real life."
But Becky kept going back to Carl. And finally her parents couldn't take it anymore. The breaking point was a call in April 2003. Becky phoned her mother after her car broke down. According to Karren, Becky felt she needed her mother to come get her. That very morning, she says Carl had beaten Becky once again.
Karren Kraemer: I said, "No." We decided we were gonna use tough love.
They told Becky they wouldn't come get her unless she'd leave Carl completely and come home and live with them..
David Kraemer: I would hope it bring her back home and she'd quit hanging around with him.
But Karen says it only made Becky feel they didn't love her.
Stafford: How hard was it for you to say "no"?
Karren Kraemer: Horrible. It was horrible. I was crying. I was trying to explain to her that it's killing us to see her like this. And to know that she's gonna keep going back.
Stafford: How many times have you thought about that phone call? Karren Kraemer: Oh my God, every day of my life. It eats me up. People say, "You can't blame yourself." But as a parent, we all say and do things thinking it's gonna be for the best. It's gonna help your kid. And that was the wrong decision I made. It didn't help her.
Becky hung up on her, broke off all contact with her family and four days later took off.
Karren Kraemer: So she not only ran from him, but I forced her to run from me. So she was abandoned that's how she felt and I understand that.
According to Karen, the boyfriend was desperate - calling and calling trying to find her. So was Karen. She called the FBI. They found Becky in Florida, but she still did not want to deal with her parents. And asked her mother to leave her alone.
Stafford: What do you want her to know?
David Kraemer: I want her to know I love her. And I wish it could have been different.
Becky stayed in Florida for six weeks and then came back to Milwaukee and to her parents' dismay moved back in with Carl. Alarmed, Karen called Becky's cell everyday but could only get her voicemail.
Stafford: Tell me about the messages you're leaving.
Karren Kraemer: I kept her informed of everything that was happening in our lives. Her sister got pregnant and had a baby. We called and told her about that. Everything....
Stafford: Is there anyway Becky would not respond to her sister having a child?
Karren Kraemer: No, are you kidding. She would give anything to see Katie's baby and to be a part of that. Because that's who she was. She loved her brothers and sisters. And every day I was telling her how sorry I was. And that I needed her to come back in my life. And she would have responded to that. Because that's who she was. You know? She wouldn't have wanted me to hurt every day…
After two months, Karren was convinced Becky was not returning her calls for a reason, that something terrible had happened.
Karren Kraemer: I believe 110 percent that she was murdered.
Stafford: And do you have a suspect?
Karren Kraemer: Yep.
Stafford: And who is it?
Karren Kraemer: Her boyfriend. Carl Rogers the second. That's who it is.

Christina Randol, one of Becky's best friend turns out to be the last person to see Becky on December 13, 2003- months before that string of unanswered calls from her family. That night they went out to a club together.
Christina Randol, friend: And she couldn't wait to go. And she was so happy that day.

Christina says she picked Becky up at Carl's house where Becky was staying. They were having a fun evening at a club when Carl called Becky. They argued and then Becky hung up, but Carl continued to call.
Rob Stafford, Dateline correspondent: How many times did her cell phone ring that night?
Randol: I think he called at least four times after they had argued on the phone before she finally turned it off.
Stafford: And what was he asking about?
Randol: She said he was asking when she was gonna be home. Where she was, what she was doing, who she was with.
Stafford: The place closes, then what happens?Randol: I took her home. She went upstairs and waved at me and told me I'll see you later I had fun. And we'll talk tomorrow.
But they wouldn't talk the next day... or any other day.
Randol: I went over there and there was no answer at the door.Stafford: She had gone to Florida on her own before. How did you know she didn't just leave town?
Lisa, friend: ‘Cause it wasn't like her. When she went to Florida the first time, she contacted us, she contacted Desiree, she contacted my sister, she contacted my mom. She came straight to my house the night she got back from Florida.
Unable to reach Becky for a week after their night together at the club, the friends went to the police.
Desiree: Our friend is missing and we have a feeling that her boyfriend has something to do with it because he was real abusive.
Stafford: What did the police say? Desiree: Pretty much just blew us off because we weren't family.
And when Becky's mom, Karren, called the police in march to file a missing person's report, she says they talked her out of it, saying Becky was a runaway.
Desperate, Karen put up fliers and knocked on every door in this neighborhood, where Becky lived with Carl. She held a vigil to get the public's attention.
She also hired a private detective and consulted psychics, who said her daughter might be secretly buried in a cemetery or along railroad tracks. Karren looked everywhere where she thought her daughter might be.
Stafford: And are you worried about what you might find?
Karren Kraemer: Yeah. I shouldn't be the person to find my daughter's remains, but I'm going to look for them.
Becky and Carl were an interracial couple and lived in a mostly black section of Milwaukee, which is where Karren concentrated her search.
Stafford: As you're going into the black community in Milwaukee, what kind of reception are you getting?
Karren Kraemer: Wonderful. People have helped me. They've told me stories. They've hugged me. They've taken posters and passed ‘em out at their neighborhood meetings. They've embraced me.
Ellen Corella heard about Karren's story and offered to help. She's a former prosecutor, who now is a private investigator specializing in adult children who have gone missing.
Stafford: You start looking into Becky's disappearance. And what do you find?
Ellen Corcella (private investigator): She's a victim of domestic violence. And everything we know about theories of domestic violence say that the perpetrator gets more violent than less violent.
And she says Becky's behavior was typical of someone who is being abused: running away from her abuser. Becky tried several times-at times moving in with friends, her parents, or going to Florida.
Corcella: The abuser calls and lures them back. Then when she gets her sense of power again and is beaten worse, she leaves.
And in many cases, after he romances her back, the abuse begins again. Becky wasn't the first woman Carl had allegedly beaten. He'd had been married before meeting Becky. And although Carl denied it, his first wife did allege abuse.
Corcella: Well, the public record shows testimony about him having been abusive to his wife and it's the main reason that the marriage is dissolved. He has a pattern of abuse.
What's more, since Becky's disappearance, her credit cards haven't been used, her last paycheck was never cashed, her driver's license hasn't renewed, and no one has reported seeing or hearing from her. 
Corcella: She has for all intents and purposes, walked off the face of the earth.
Stafford: Becky Marzo alive?
Corella: No.
Stafford: You're absolutely convinced of-
Corella: I'm absolutely certain that that's the case.
Stafford: What do you know about what the boyfriend did in the days after Becky was last seen?
Corella: What we do know from the phone records is that he apparently traveled to Canada to meet a girl that he had met online.
Stafford: Why is that significant?
Corella: Men who have thought that they have committed the perfect crime by disposing of the body in a way it can't be found, take a breather and look to see if the attention's gonna turn to them, or if the police are gonna float on to the next case.
Stafford: So they leave town to see if the police are following them.
Corella: Yes.
Karren continued to badger the Milwaukee police about her daughter's case. Then, 10 months after Becky went missing, to Karren's shock, police made what some have called an outrageous move: They set up a meeting between her and the man she was accusing.
Karren Kraemer: And he said, "Mrs. Kraemer, tell this boy what you think he did to your daughter."
Stafford: And you're face to face with Carl Rogers?
Karren Kraemer: We were sitting side by side. And-
Stafford: What do you say?
Karren Kraemer: I just looked at him and I said, "What did you do to Becky? I know you killed her." And he said "The b*tch wasn't worth it."
Dateline tried to reach Carl Rogers but he didn't respond.
The Milwaukee police department declined several interview requests by Dateline but did tell us that they are doing everything they can to solve the disappearance of Becky Marzo.
But Karren Kraemer isn't waiting for the police. She's still out there searching. What drives her is not the hope she'll find her daughter alive, but find her nonetheless.
Karren Kraemer: I have to know what happened to her. I have to be able to touch her coffin and tell her how much I loved her. I gave birth to her. I deserve the right to bury her.
If you have information on Becky Kraemer Marzo, contact the Milwaukee Police Department at (414) 935-7403 or go to the http://findbeckykraemer.com/ Website.

[Linda]

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[Denise]

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Missing Woman's Boyfriend Found Dead
Believed to Have Committed Suicide

Silvia Acevedo

MILWAUKEE - A man questioned in the 2003 disappearance of his girlfriend has been found dead, adding another sad element to a local missing person's case that's garnered national attention.

Carl Rodgers, 39, was found late Friday in a garage near 70th and Hampton. He was near a generator that was left "on" but had no gas in its tank. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's office says the death was the result of "probable carbon monoxide poisoning."

Rodgers was suspected, but never charged, in the disappearance of Becky Marzo, 23, of Oconomowoc. Rodgers was recently charged of sexual assault of another girlfriend.

"We were hoping that, one day, he'd come forward and tell us where he'd disposed of Becky's remains," said Marzo's mother, Karren Kraemer. "So right now, we feel lost."

Kraemer has publicly accused Rodgers of murdering her daughter. She has held vigils and appeared on NBC's Dateline, blaming Rodgers for Marzo's disappearance.

"He was an abuser," Kraemer said. "He abused women. He abused his first wife, he abused my daughter."

The M.E.'s report states that Rodgers left a note, declaring he'd "never raped or killed anyone."

Kraemer says she hopes to get new leads to help her find her daughter. "We can now go back and re-interview people. You know, now that he's gone, fear is gone, too."

Rodger's family accuses Kraemer of harassment, but declined to talk on camera.

[Denise]

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18903130&BRD=1402&PAG=461&dept_id=173492&rfi=6

The suicide of a Milwaukee man has also killed the hopes of an Oconomowoc woman who believed he held the answers to her daughter's disappearance and presumed murder. 

Carl A. Rodgers Jr., 39, was the boyfriend of Karren Kraemer's daughter, Becky Marzo, 23, when she went missing in December 2003.

Rodgers' body was found Friday in a vehicle inside his garage, where he succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.

Kraemer, of Oconomowoc, has been relentlessly pursuing Rodgers since her daughter vanished four years ago. The story of her dogged determination to find justice for her daughter was profiled in May on NBC's "Dateline" newsmagazine.

She maintains the couple had a volatile relationship that the family first became aware of in March 2003 when Marzo went to them alleging she had been beaten by Rodgers.

According to Kraemer, her daughter had been choked, had clumps of hair pulled out and suffered a broken nose as a result of the incident. Persuaded by her family, Marzo reported the altercation to police, and battery charges were filed against Rodgers, who had a prior record of domestic disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon.

Kraemer believes Marzo resumed her relationship with Rodgers and cut off communication with them out of fear for her life and that of her family. According to Kraemer, her daughter's co-workers subsequently told her that Marzo continued to suffer beatings from her boyfriend and often arrived at work bruised and depressed.

In an attempt to restore communication, Kraemer continued to leave cell phone messages, which were left unanswered. By June 2004, Kraemer said, she became alarmed when there was no word from her daughter after a death had occurred in the family.

By the time she filed a missing persons report with the Milwaukee Police Department, Kraemer said, she believed in her heart that her daughter was dead.

In addition to being a suspect in Marzo's case, Rodgers was recently charged with second-degree sexual assault of another woman he had been involved with, and faced possible time behind bars in connection with a federal weapons crime.

His body was discovered after Kraemer received a telephone call from a co-worker of Rodgers', alerting her that Rodgers had not shown up for work. Rodgers worked for a trash service provider and pursued drag racing as an avocation.

The co-worker had coincidentally grown up with Marzo and had been in touch with Kraemer about her pursuit.

Fearing that Rodgers had fled the state, Kraemer notified a detective, and local police were eventually called to Rodgers' Milwaukee home, where a suicide note was found on the kitchen table. Unable to locate Rodgers in the residence, police went to the garage, where they discovered his lifeless body inside his racecar.

Some kind of recording, possibly a video, was found with the body, the contents of which have not yet been released.

According to Kraemer, Rodgers denied any involvement in the death of her daughter or in the rape of his former girlfriend in his suicide note.

While frustrated that Rodgers did not provide any useful information in Kraemer's pursuit of answers in her daughter's disappearance, she said it will not thwart her efforts.

Kraemer steadfastly believes that while Rodgers might have taken his secrets to the grave, she will eventually unearth them.

"I'm certainly not going to stop now," she said. "There are people who know things who may have been afraid before to come forward." 

[Kelly]

http://www.wisn.com/news/16151854/detail.html

Hundreds Gather For Missing People Fundraiser

POSTED: 7:25 pm CDT May 3, 2008
UPDATED: 7:43 pm CDT May 3, 2008


OCONOMOWOC, Wis. -- More than 100 people are expected to gather at Lakerz Sports Bar in downtown Oconomowoc Saturday night to help the families of missing people.

The event, which is part fundraiser and part healing process, is open to the public.

Dozens of businesses have donated items for raffle and auction. Organizers hope to raise $25,000.

Karen Kraemer, whose daughter went missing in 2003 and is presumed dead, started an organization to help missing families.

She explained the organization is meant to help family members of missing people work with the system in order to find a missing adult.

Kraemer also hopes to one day raise enough money to open, staff and run a domestic abuse shelter in Oconomowoc.

[Kelly]

From the Family:

Hi Friends,

I am sending this out to remind all my friends and family that this is a huge effort to bring together 1000 people to remember the missing. I need all my friends and family to please support me and join us on Saturday. I am hoping to see you all there as we want to show the families of the missing that Wisconsin really does care.

Tell your friends and your extended family , we want there to be a strong turn out. We have four bands live music all day till 9pm, we havew great door prizes and raffle items including ATV's donated from Hartwigs Polaris, Leather Harley Jacket from Hal's Haley in New Berlin

A weekend Sybaris Package

and many more wonderful items.
So please use your email and word of mouth to help bring out the numbers we need.

Saturday October 4th

The Broken Wings Network Presents

The First Annual Poker Ride 2 WHEELS AND 4 WHEELS for the Missing

Rides depart from Wisconsin Harley in Oconomowoc or your choice of location at NOON

Participating Locations:

Lakerz Sportz Bar, 118 East  Wisconsin Ave Oconomowoc, Phone 262-569-2734

 Knucklehead Pub,  100 South Rd,  Eagle WI,  Phone 262-594-3220

 Stolley’s Hogg Alley,  2008 N. Venice Beach Rd. Oconomowoc, Phone  262-646-5652

 Coach House Grill of Big Bend  W233 S7260 Vernon Lane, Big Bend,Phone  262-662-4444

OUR GOAL IS BRING TOGETHER 1000 PEOPLE TO SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE MISSING IN WI.

All roads lead to The Coach House Grill for live music, free food, raffles, and fun.

W233 S7260 Vernon Ln, Big Bend

Party to begin at 1pm .  Food served from 1-3 pm.

You can also join us directly at the Coach House for the event if you choose.  Everyone is welcome.

$25 pre-registration/$30 at the door

For more info ccontact The Broken Wings Network

thebrokenwingsnetwork.com