article_snippet: Authorities said last year Authorities had evidence that pointed Dennis Brantner and named him as a suspect.
article_snippet: A court document says him fingerprints were on items in local teen Berit Beck's van. '
article_snippet: According to a complaint obtained by the Fond du Lac Reporter, 'no physical evidence directly links ...
article_snippet: (anyone) other than Dennis J. Brantner to the GMC van Berit Beck was last seen driving.'
article_snippet: Police say Brantner's fingerprints were found March 11 on a cigarette cellophane that was inside Beck's van.
article_snippet: Physical evidence: Brantner was first named as a suspect in 2014 but told police he had nothing to do with the cold case murder.
article_snippet: However, Fond du Lac police say Fond du Lac police've since connected he, and only him, to Berit Beck was driving when Berit Beck vanished using fingerprints .
article_snippet: Though he was not in custody at the time of local teen Berit Beck's disappearance, Brantner was arrested on an unrelated matter two weeks later on August 6 1990 and has a criminal record going back to the 1970s.
article_snippet: Brantner was unknown to local teen Berit Beck's family prior to police naming he as a suspect in 2014.
highlights_snippet: Dennis Brantner allegedly strangled and suffocated local teen Berit Beck nearly 25 years ago .
  
highlights_snippet: Dennis Brantner was named as a suspect in spring of 2014.
highlights_snippet: Police say new physical evidence points to Dennis Brantner and no one else .
  