“This life sentence also alleviates any appellate issues that could arise and guarantees she will never be free again. "I suspect Riess as some point in time with have no resources and she will become more desperate," Marceno said, "and may kill again.“This defendant will never get out of prison,” Florida State Attorney Amira Fox said in a press release. "This is the first time in my career I've seen someone steal someone''s identity and target them for the way they look in order to murder them," Marceno said. In Florida, the deputy sheriff told NBC he had never seen a killing like it. "That's really the only thing that could resonate with my system. "Pure evil," Hutchinson's cousin told WTVR. The obituary for David Riess published last week, and mentioned his children and grandchildren, but not wife. The vehicle was spotted near Corpus Christi, Texas, this month, Florida authorities announced at a news conference last Friday. More public advisories went out, with more photos of the grandmotherly woman and the car she was believed to be traveling in, which was now the car of the woman police think she killed. The search for Lois Riess was now a multistate and federal matter. Her identification, credit cards and car keys were gone. The dead woman's purse had been emptied out, sheriff's investigators said. Hutchinson's uncle told WTVR she'd been shot through the heart. Another surveillance camera photographed Riess at the building.
On April 9, police found Hutchinson shot to death at her condo in the same city. To her death."Ĭlick here to sign up for our free, seven-day newsletter course on legal cannabis in Connecticut. The woman probably gave her some sob story," Hutchinson's cousin Daniele Jeffreys later told WTVR. There, they said, she met a woman named Pamela Hutchinson, 59, with a similar shade of light-blonde hair.
State officials began to paste her photos on Facebook, urging anyone who saw her to call 911 and not go near her, as she was believed to be armed and dangerous.įrom Iowa, police believe, Riess drove to Lee County, Florida. She had left Iowa by the time police tracked her there in late March, the Star Tribune wrote. NBC News reported Riess had a gambling addiction. According to the Star Tribune, police suspect she forged her dead husband's signature before his body was found, transferred nearly $10,000 into her account, and headed to a casino across the Iowa border. Officers did, and found him dead of gunshot wounds at the worm farm on March 23, the sheriff of Dodge County told the newspaper. David owned and operated a farm for fishing bait - Prairie Wax Worms.Ĭoncerned that David Riess had not been seen in more than a week, the Star Tribune reported, one of his business partners asked police to look for him. They were both regulars for lunch at the local Servicemen's Club, nearly 100 miles south of Minneapolis. Riess and her husband, David, were well known and well liked by the 2,000 or so other residents of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "She smiles and looks like anyone's mother or grandmother, but she's calculating, she's targeting and she's an absolute cold-blood killer," Carmine Marceno, a deputy sheriff Lee County, Florida, told NBC News on Florida, after authorities lost Riess' trail. For the past three weeks, police say, Riess has led them on a nationwide pursuit - from the Minnesota worm farm where they found her husband shot to death last month to Florida, where they suspect Riess befriended and killed a woman who looks like her to steal her identity and finally to Texas, where police fear she may find her next target.
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