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Murder in Door County, Wisconsin

DOOR COUNTY, WI (AP)--   Authorities say an Illinois man has confessed to killing his girlfriend while the couple was in Wisconsin's Door County to attend a wedding. 

Sheriff Terry Vogel says the 35-year-old man is from Will County, Illinois, in far southwestern suburban Chicago.  The man was arrested in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.

Police found the body of his 21-year-old girlfriend inside a motel room on Sunday.  Several police cars and a Wisconsin Department of Justice crime lab vehicle out of Wausau were at the Sand Bay Beach Resort & Suites in the town of Nasewaupee; however, authorities would not immediately confirm if the activity at the resort was related to the homicide investigation. 

The man is being held in Door County pending charges.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.