Man who helped hide 4 bodies killed by son learns fate

homesafetytechpros — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:30:20 +0000

Inset photos left to right from top: Antoine Suggs (KARE) and Darren Lee McWright, aka Darren Osborne (The Associated Press). Bottom row, from left: Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley (KARE), Loyace Foreman III (KARE), Matthew Pettus (Johnson-Peterson Funeral Home) and Jasmine Sturm (KARE).

A man who helped his son hide the bodies of four murder victims in a Wisconsin cornfield after the younger man “snapped” has learned his fate.

Darren Osborne, 59, was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison, online court records show. He was found guilty in October of four counts of hiding a corpse involving the deaths of Jasmine Sturm, 30; her brother, Matthew Pettus, 26; her boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and her friend, Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30.

His son, Antoine Suggs, 41, shot and killed the victims after a night of drinking in St. Paul, Minnesota, in September 2021. Citing surveillance footage and phone data, investigators indicate that Suggs killed the victims around Seventh Street in St. Paul between 3:30 a.m. and 3:48 a.m. on Sept. 12.

Video showed Flug-Presley slumped over in the front passenger seat, authorities said.

Suggs reached out to his father after the shooting for help with hiding the bodies. He “told his father that he snapped and shot a couple of people,” says a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime.

“Suggs told his father the shooting happened in the vehicle on Seventh Street,” said the Ramsey County criminal complaint. “Suggs’ father gave his son a ride to Minnesota from Wisconsin after they left the Mercedes-Benz in a cornfield. Suggs’ father denied knowing the bodies of the people his son shot were in the vehicle they abandoned. He dropped Suggs off in Minneapolis.”

Suggs surrendered to police in Arizona, where he had been living. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 103 years in prison in 2023.

Osborne had been sentenced to nearly five years in prison in 2022 for helping his son and will serve the Minnesota sentence and the Wisconsin sentence concurrently, The Associated Press reported.

Alberto Luperon contributed to this report.

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Man who helped girlfriend kill her grandparents learns fate

homesafetytechpros — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:15:04 +0000

Left: Lucas Anthony Walker (KOTV). Right: Deborah and Larry Dutton (Livingston Funeral Home).

An Oklahoma man was sentenced for killing his girlfriend’s grandparents and burying their bodies in their own backyard.

Lucas Anthony Walker, 22, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for the murders of Deborah and Larry Dutton, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a Friday press release. Walker pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder.

The victims were murdered in their home in Dewey, about 50 miles north of Tulsa, on Dec. 19, 2022.

Their bodies were found the following month in their backyard, reported Andy Dossett of the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise.

Ring doorbell video showed Walker and Heidi Dutton dragging the bodies to the backyard, reported local NBC affiliate KSNW, citing court documents.

Walker’s then-girlfriend, Heidi Dutton, who was 17 at the time, told police she asked Walker to murder the couple, who adopted her as their daughter, “because she wanted them dead,” Dossett reported, citing police affidavits and preliminary hearing testimony.

“We kill them,” Heidi Dutton said she told her boyfriend during an interview with police, the newspaper reported.

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She initially admitted to investigators that she killed her grandparents and that Walker helped her clean up, but later reversed her and Walker’s roles.

Walker confessed to shooting and stabbing Deborah Dutton and stabbing Larry Dutton to death, officials said.

The two reportedly spent the elder Duttons’ money before their arrests.

An obituary said Larry Dutton was a retired Master Staff Sgt. in the U.S. Air Force and former manager of the Lt. William M. Milliken Airport in Eureka, Kansas.

His wife was originally from Tennessee, a retired Staff Sgt. in the U.S. Air Force, and a former chef.

They were former churchgoers in Kansas. Congregants at their former church, Eureka United Methodist, were shocked.

“They’re shaken. They’re visibly shaken,” Rev. Linda Pope told KOKI. “How do we make sense of all of this, and how do we turn this over to a higher power? There, there’s just so many unanswered questions.”

Heidi Dutton’s plea and sentencing hearing is set for March 5, online court records show.

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