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Not Guilty Verdict in Brossard TrialBy The WTMJ News TeamELKHORN - A verdict was reached just before 10 p.m. Monday in a Walworth county murder trial. The jury found David Brossard not guilty of killing his wife in 1997 and dumping her body in Geneva Lake. Defense attorneys claimed there was no physical evidence linking Brossard to the crime. The 40-year-old Burlington man was charged with killing his wife and dumping her body in Geneva Lake 12 years ago. Dawn Brossard disappeared in 1997 outside a bank in Burlington, where she was working. It took years before anyone was able to find her remains. Those remains were tied to a cinder block in the bottom of Geneva Lake. David Brossard was arrested nine years after her disappearance and was charged in the case. He worked at a place where he would have had access to cinder blocks and the types of chains and latches used to bind Dawn's body. They also had a history of marital problems. The two were going through a divorce. There are no fingerprints, no murder scene, and no real physical evidence to suggest Brossard was the killer - only the circumstantial evidence that he could have been the one to do it, and that they could have been having relationship problems.
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