2 brothers acquitted of murder in 1987; DNA evidence points to a man who died in 2000

GREEN BAY (WLUK) — Two brothers' convictions in the 1987 murder of Sandra Lison were overturned Wednesday.

Based on new DNA tests, prosecutors rejected Robert and David Bintz's request for release.

According to the brothers' request for release, William Hendricks, a convicted rapist who died in 2000, is the one who finds the evidence found at the crime scene worthy.

Lison was working at the Good Times Tavern in Green Bay on August 2, 1987. Two days later, her body was found in Machickanee Forest. She had been sexually abused and killed. The Bintz brothers were ultimately convicted and sentenced in the case.

“Although this was an extraordinarily intimate crime (at the least involving beating and manual strangulation and apparently sexual assault as well), the State Crime Lab's examination of the crime scene evidence revealed no trace of Robert or David Bintz. Likewise, the defense attorney's extensive additional investigations over the past five years found male DNA in blood from the victim's dress, in blood from the victim's shoes, on hair pulled from her back, on hair from the front of her dress, and found on hair recovered from her underwear, but not a shred of “This is attributable to Robert or David Bintz,” the motion states.

Her body was found between the bar and Hendricks' residence. His body was unearthed from a Green Bay cemetery in April, and “the odds are 1 in 329 trillion that the source of the crime scene evidence is someone other than William Hendricks,” the motion says.

State prison records show David Bintz was “released from sentence” on Wednesday, while Robert Bintz is listed at Oakhill Correctional Institution.