KEWAUNEE, Wis. – A petition seeking a new trial based on new DNA evidence has been filed on behalf of a woman convicted in the fatal beatings of two Casco sisters 14 years ago.
The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a project at the University of Wisconsin Law School that works to free wrongly convicted prisoners, requested a new trial this week for Beth LaBatte, 38, of Green Bay in the deaths of 90-year-old Ann Cadigan and her 85-year-old sister, Ceil, who were found dead in their home Nov. 16, 1991.