Spors was booked at the Milwaukee County jail and charged with 1st-degree intentional homicide for beating her 64-year-old mother to death with a rock.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
October 14, 2025
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, Lauren Spors, 29, was booked at the Milwaukee County jail and charged with 1st-degree intentional homicide for beating her mother, Carrie Zettel, 64, to death with a stone in her back yard.
If convicted, spors is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Sunday, October 12, 2025, around 2:04 p.m. Milwaukee police found Zettel deceased in her back yard at the 2200 block of W. Ramsey. Zettel had called police earlier that Spors was at her property and was trying to get inside her house.
Spors has a history of mental illness, that involved prior incidents with her parents, leading to a restraining order in 2014, which police were later involved when Spors violated the order four times. Charges for violating the restraining order were filed against Spors, but the court judge found her incompetent to stand trial in the cases, and was referred to a mental facillty for treatment.
It's not clear why Spors went to her mother's house on Sunday, and repeatedly pounded in the windows and door, and began to threaten her.
The police homicide investigation indicated that Spors continuously struck Zettel in the head with a stone (rock). Zettel died from blunt force trauma to the head, according to a police press release.
A large portion of the Zettel's skull was missing, according to the criminal complaint.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office pronounced Zettel deceased at 2:33 p.m. on Sunday at the scene.
Police say, Spors was taken into custody at the scene.
The police report indicates that Zettel had called a neighbor around 3:45 a.m before she was killed by Spors. Zettel told her neighbor that Spors was attempting to break into her house.
According to the Milwaukee police log calls, police responded around 3:27 a.m. to the 2200 block of W. Ramsey to a call for entry building or structure. They found Spors hiding under a tarp in Zettel's property, but fled the scene. Then another call to police was made at 2:04 p.m., and police responded Zettel's house to investigate a call for a subject with a weapon. When police arrived at Zettel's home, they found Zettel's body in the back yard, and located Spors in the property who had blood on her clothing, and she was taken into custody.
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