By David Lohr

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January 30, 2007

JANESVILLE, Wis. (Crime Library) — According to an affidavit filed by the Rock County Sheriff's Department, Danyetta Lentz and James C. Koepp had a personal relationship and possibly an affair. 

 

The affidavit states that on Jan. 16, Koepp was supposed to come to the sheriff's department for a voluntary interview, but he never showed.  Several hours later, Koepp phoned one of the deputies.  He was very distraught during the conversation and appeared to be intoxicated.

"I didn't do it. If I come forward, I'm going to lose my wife.  I know you're going to arrest me... I'm going to hang up before you trace this call..."

He then hung up, waited a few minutes and called back.

"I didn't do anything.  I didn't f—king kill anyone.  I was stupid.  I was stupid.  I did a dumb f—king thing."

Later that same day, Koepp called his wife Nancy.  During the conversation, she handed the phone to a female investigator, but even after identifying herself, Koepp, apparently still intoxicated, thought he was speaking with his wife.

"It was obvious he thought I was his wife," the detective wrote in a statement filed along with the search warrant affidavits.  "He kept saying, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.'" 

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