Woman charged with reckless homicide in Dousman boyfriend's heroin-fentanyl overdose death

A 27-year-old Neosho woman has been charged with reckless homicide for buying fentanyl-laced heroin for, and sharing it with, her boyfriend, which ultimately killed him, according to a criminal complaint.

Selena Leitzke was charged Feb. 4 in Waukesha County Circuit Court with first-degree reckless homicide. Her preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 7.

According to a criminal complaint:

Police on Sept. 6, 2017, found Leitzke's boyfriend, 26-year-old Jeremie Bischel of Dousman, dead of a drug overdose inside his home in the 300 block of North Main Street.

Officers discovered marijuana, heroin and related paraphernalia in Bischel's room. The Waukesha County Medical Examiner's Office determined his cause of death to be an opioid intoxication from a mix of heroin and fentanyl.

Investigators found Leitzke's DNA on a small bag of heroin in Bischel's room, and witnesses said she was a known drug user.

Cell phone GPS data from Sept. 5 — the last night anyone saw Bischel alive — put Leitzke in Milwaukee, and during a police interview she admitted to arranging a drug buy for half a gram of heroin that night, the complaint said.

She told officers that when she left Bischel's home later the same evening he was playing video games and "seemed fine."

Court records show Leitzke was released Feb. 7 on a $20,000 signature bond. If convicted, she could face up to 40 years in prison and $100,000 in fines.