BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. – A Brockway woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the stabbing death of her domestic partner. Kellie Schmidt, 55, was charged with reckless homicide. She had taken a fillet knife to Thomas Boetcher, 52, during a late night dispute at their home outside Black River Falls. That was in September 2021. Boetcher was found on a neighbor’s doorstep bleeding from a puncture wound on an arm. He died the next day at a Marshfield hospital.
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