CRIMEWAFB BATON ROUGE
Man charged in 1988 cold case murder of his pregnant wife
Joel Bremer was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in 1988 for the death of his pregnant wife, Ronna Bremer, whose skull was identified decades later through DNA testing. After multiple case reopenings and closures, Bremer was arrested in 2026 based on evidence from 1989 and prior domestic assault records.
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