A dinner dispute in Waukesha County led to a homicide charge for a Lake Country woman after prosecutors allege she stabbed and killed her boyfriend, according to a criminal complaint filed April 27.
Mikayla Kloth, 27, is charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide. If convicted, she faces life in prison.
A dispute over dinner plans led to the fatal stabbing
According to the complaint:
On April 24 at 6:48 p.m., police responded to a 911 call from a residence on Wisconsin Avenue in the Village of Lac La Belle.
Dispatchers told officers a female caller reported a person bleeding on the ground and that there was blood “all over,” but not hers. Officers were also told someone may have been attacked inside the home with a knife.
When police entered the apartment, they saw a woman − later identified as Kloth − standing in the main living room and kitchen area.
An officer also saw a man lying on his back, bleeding. The building’s landlord was applying pressure to the man’s chest. Officers observed a wound in the center of the man’s chest.
Officers began performing CPR and asked who stabbed the man. Kloth responded, “I did.”
Fire and EMS personnel arrived shortly thereafter and took over medical care. The man was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where life-saving efforts continued, but was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m.
An autopsy conducted the following day determined the man died from a single stab wound to the chest that entered his heart.
Kloth told police she acted out of anger
An officer asked Kloth why she stabbed the man and Kloth stated she was “angry at him.”
Kloth was taken to the Lac La Belle Police Department for an interview. On the way there, she made statements including that she “should have just gone to the bar” and that the situation was “just irritating.”
During a Mirandized interview, Kloth told police the man was her boyfriend of about three years. She said they did not live together, but he frequently visited her apartment.
Kloth told investigators she had gone to work earlier that day and later texted the man about coming over with dinner. She said she did not want him to come over and instead wanted to go out to a bar.
The man later came to her apartment with chicken drumsticks and seasoning and planned on using the air fryer. Kloth said he began “pushing her buttons,” which led to an argument.
She told police the man grabbed a knife and said, “Do you want me to cut myself?” She said she tried to take the knife from him.
When asked by police how the knife entered the man’s chest without a struggle, as she claimed, Kloth responded, “No, I did stab him,” and said her anger “got the best of her.”
Police said Kloth took responsibility for the stabbing and said that if she had to be jailed, that was “cool.”
After the interview, officers took Kloth to Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital for a consensual blood draw. During the ride, she said if the victim’s parents did not hate her before, they would now.
At the hospital, Kloth told officers she intentionally pushed the knife into the man’s chest because she was angry and said she wished she had not taken her anger out on him.
After being told the man had died, an officer said Kloth showed little emotion and said police needed to “lock her up.”
Kloth had injured her boyfriend one week before the fatal stabbing
Kloth had bitten her boyfriend’s thumb about a week before the fatal encounter. He showed his landlord and a woman his thumb and said he had been bitten by Kloth.
The landlord said the man appeared afraid of Kloth and told the woman, “Please take my full name, in case something ever happens to me.”
Kloth made her first appearance in court April 27. A cash bond was set at $2 million. Her next court appearance, a preliminary hearing, is scheduled for May 29.
Adrienne Davis is a south suburban reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Got any tips or stories to share? Contact Adrienne at amdavis@gannett.com. Follow her on X at @AdriReportss.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Woman, 27, charged in fatal stabbing in Village of Lac La Belle
Reporting by Adrienne Davis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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