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Woman bound over after baby’s deathBy Gary JohnsonRice Lake News BureauBARRON — A 24-year-old Rice Lake woman was bound over for arraignment today on a charge of first-degree murder involving the death of her infant son.Janice L. Funk will have a plea hearing Feb. 23 before Barron County Circuit Court Judge James C. Eaton. Funk is being held in the Barron County Jail in lieu of a $25.(XX) cash bond.A request for a substitution of judge has been filed by Funk's lawyers, assistant state public defenders Laurie Osberg and John Hinde.Funk is charged with causing the death of her a month-old son, Donovan, Feb. 5 and placing his body by a trash container near her home at 1030 S. Main St., Rice Lake.An autopsy performed at the State Crime Laboratory in Madison shows the child died of strangulation, according to the criminal complaint filed by District Attorney James Babler.Babler called three witnesses at today's preliminary hearing.Lynda Randall testified that sheassisted a woman, later identified as Funk, to the restroom at the Buck horn Bar, 14 N. Main St., Rice Lake, because the woman apparently was intoxicated.While in the restroom. Funk told her that “she (Funk) didn't have any friends, they would all hate her for what she did. Randall testified.Randall also said Funk told her “four or five times' that she had killed her baby.Funk said she strangled the baby, Randall testified, and placed the body near a trash container near herhome.Funk told Randall, ‘ “That's why I'm getting so drunk, because 1 killed my baby,' “ Randall testified .Funk later came out of the restroom and also told bartender Grace Frazier that she had killed her child, according to Randall's testimony.Randall said she called the Rice Lake Police Department after her conversations with Funk.Michael Baribeau, a city police officer who was dispatched to the area where the baby’s body was found, testified he and OfficerMike Nelson found the body in a shopping bag near a garbage container.I he baby's skin was “very cold, comparable to the outside air temperature.” Baribeau testified.Baribeau said the baby had markings on its neck that “appeared to be fingernail marks.”Dr. Thomas Lundquist, who was the emergency-room physician at Lakeview Medical Center in Rice Lake on the night the baby was brought in, testified the child was dead on arrival. He said the body had a bruise across the upper chest and lower neck.
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Eau Claire Leader Telegram
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Feb 10, 1987
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