Lois Reiss back in Minnesota to face charges in husband's death

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A grandmother from southern Minnesota is back in the state to face charges in her husband's death.

57-year-old Lois Reiss of Blooming Prairie is already serving a life sentence for killing a woman in Florida, where authorities say she later assumed the woman's identity.

Known by many as "Losing Streak Lois," she is due in court on Tuesday.

She pleaded guilty in December in an deal that kept her from receiving the death penalty.

Reiss was the subject of a four-week nationwide search in 2018 that started in her hometown and ending in Texas.

She's now in the Steele County Detention Center in Owatonna.

Authorities brought her to Minnesota on Friday.

Reiss is charged in Dodge County with first- and second-degree murder, along with forging $11,000 in checks from her husband's bank account.

On March 23, 2018, David Reiss was found shot to death in his home.

Records show Lois Reiss went to a casino in Iowa before making her way to Florida, where she killed Pamela Hutchinson on April 9 in her condo in Ft. Myers.

After reported sightings in Louisiana, the law caught up with Reiss in South Padre Island, Texas.