Residents of a Milwaukee neighborhood are haunted by the death of an elderly woman in her backyard allegedly at the hands of her mentally ill daughter.
Carrie Zettel, 64, called police at about 2 p.m. Sunday to report that her daughter was being violent, according to a search warrant. When police arrived, they found Zettel dead.
'The girl should have been stopped years ago, and I don't understand why. And that angers me.'
"It happened in the backyard, and she beat her mother to death with a rock," said a family friend named Susan Henderson-Hoffmann.
A criminal complaint said that police found a rock weighing about 4 pounds and stained with blood near the body. Her body had been covered with a blanket.
The search warranted identified the suspect as 29-year-old Lauren Spors, the dau