BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. – A suburban Brockway woman pleaded no-contest to first-degree reckless homicide for stabbing her live-in partner fatally. Kellie Schmidt, 54, told the judge she wouldn’t contest the charge. Sentencing was set for September. Her manfriend, Thomas Boetcher, 53, showed up bleeding on a neighbor’s doorstep in September 2021. He had a puncture wound from a fillet knife.
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