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Murder charges now filed in Minnesota against Lois Riess

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Courtesy of Lee County Florida

Lois Riess, the Blooming Prairie woman who was on the run for nearly a month following two shooting deaths, is now officially charged with murder in Minnesota.

The 57-year-old Riess is accused of killing her husband and stealing $11,000 dollars of his money in March 2018, eventually finding her way to Florida, where Pamela Hutchinson was found shot to death.


After a ten-day search, she was tracked down by US marshals in South Padre Island, Texas.

Riess remains in cutody in Florida, where she is charged in Hutchinson's death and assuming her identity.

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A Dodge County grand jury indicted Riess on first and second-degree murder in her husband's death, which carries a prison sentence of at least 40 years.

She pleaded not guilty in the Florida case, and is due in court in Ft. Myers on Sept. 5.