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

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