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Woman sentenced to 35 years for killing 76-year-old
['Morgan Reddekopp']
KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News
A woman has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing a 76-year-old in Faribault.
RELATED: Woman accused of fatally stabbing, strangling Faribault man had been staying with him for months, police chief saysArlene Theresa Bell, 34, was given credit for 698 days already served.
She pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in December.
Investigators say Bell stabbed, strangled, and bound 76-year-old Gary Lehmeyer in February 2024 before taking his van and heading south to the Mexico border.
Lehmeyer was physically disabled and had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s about a decade earlier.