2 Held In Death Of Former Radio Engineer

Tommy Douyette

A Brookfield, Wisconsin man found dead in his home Wednesday has been indentified as 63-year-old John Aegerter. He was a former WISN Milwaukee transmitter engineer and a radio hobbyist.

Police say he had been beaten and bound, his face wrapped in duct tape and plastic grocery bags placed over his head.  Aegerter also may have been strangled or had his neck broken during the attack at his home.

Aegerter may have been killed in a dispute over money, records state.

Tommy V. Douyette, 42, was ordered held on $750,000 bail on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide and Lynn M. Hajny, 48, was ordered held on $500,000 bail on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide, party to a crime.

Aegerter in the 1960s was a nighttime transmitter engineer at Milwaukee radio station WISN, when they had to staff engineers at the transmitter plant, said Mark Heller, president of WGBW radio in Two Rivers.

Heller, an acquaintance of Aegerter, said Aegerter also collected vintage transmitters, including an old WOKY transmitter from the late 1950s that he restored.