GUILTY SD - Phyllis Hunhoff, 59, Yankton, 4 November 2018 *ARREST*

[NikitaArcher]

Although Knox County is less than an hour drive from her hometown, it seems odd that her body was found so far away from where she lived. It's about 44 minutes from Yankton from what Google Maps shows. If foul play is confirmed then it could be a forensic counter measure.

My prayers go out to her and her family <3 I'm so sorry they have to go through this pain

 

[Mr Obvious]

There is an unsolved murder in the area 3 1/2 years ago. Alicia Hummel was murdered while fishing. I've heard the police have no leads.

 

[The Farm]

Nothing new on this, I could not find anything except that the FBI out of Omaha are investigating.

 

[iulia]

Nebraska man charged with arson in connection to Yankton woman's death

Joseph Lloyd James, 47, of Norfolk, has been federally charged with arson in attempting to set fire to a vehicle owned by victim Phyllis Hunhoff on or around Nov. 5 in Knox County, Nebraska, on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation, according to federal court documents.

 

[mistivon]

I'm so happy they've arrested someone and it sounds like more charges are coming.
From your link:

Santee Sioux National tribal police provided video showing James getting out of the driver's door of Hunhoff's vehicle and get gas at about 3:10 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 5, a few hours after Hunhoff had reportedly left her mother's home.

Almost three hours later, James is on camera at the same gas station, the Feather Hill gas station at the Ohiya Casino. This time, he pumps about $2.11 of gas into a 1-liter soda bottle. He is still driving Hunhoff's vehicle.

Video and audio surveillance shows James go into the gas station and tell the attendant he has blood on his shirt from hitting a deer near Crofton, Nebraska, and asks the attendant if they know someone who could help him get his truck towed out of a ditch. He told the attendant the Honda was a friend's vehicle.

 

[mistivon]

Currently in Douglas county NE.

You are being redirected...

 

[otto]

Is there any information about how they came into contact with each other?

 

[otto]

Was she carjacked as soon as she left her mother's house, or did she pick up a hitch hiker? If she was car jacked at her mother's house, what was the suspect doing there? Were there stop lights on her drive home and did someone jump into her car at a stop sign?

Hope I'm on the right discussion - she visited mom and didn't arrive home, her car was found a long ways away near a casino and indigenous land? A suspect was arrested, her car was burned, he bought gas to carry.

Have the addresses where she was last seen, and her destination been released? I'd like to look at them on a map.

 

[crazyasarat]

I don't know how much of this is true in the comments.

Linda Elle Aldridge

 

[Moxie Vi]

Wow.. I'm shocked. That poor lady. I think that whatever happened must have been a nightmare, especially if it's what was described in the comments on the FB link on the post above mine. Nightmarish enough to cause me to shock comment after hanging up my commenting shoes years ago.

Thanks for bringing those comments to my attention.

 

[mistivon]

Oh gosh, thank you for that. Random crimes seem so scary to me and utterly horrifying...that poor, sweet woman. I just can't imagine.

 

[MissMYB]

Wow.. I'm shocked. That poor lady. I think that whatever happened must have been a nightmare, especially if it's what was described in the comments on the FB link on the post above mine. Nightmarish enough to cause me to shock comment after hanging up my commenting shoes years ago.

Thanks for bringing those comments to my attention.

I didn't see anything like that. Wonder if they were deleted?

 

[Elainera]

I didn't see anything like that. Wonder if they were deleted?

It's in the replies to a comment. Click on "Replies" under the comment to see them.

 

[mistivon]

Indicted for arson:

Arson Suspect Indicted

Howard also testified about his 90-minute conversation with James on Dec. 8 about the night of the murder. The agent told the court that James said he had come to Yankton on Nov. 4 to go to a strip club, but finding it closed, went to a bar next door. At that bar, James said he met a woman who gave him a ride to Norfolk, Nebraska. Howard said that James was shown a photo of Hunhoff, and James indicated that it might have been the same woman.

"I didn’t find anybody that had said that she was in a bar; her family said it was unlikely that she had been at any bar," Howard said.

 

[cybervampira]

Norfolk man charged with murder of missing Yankton woman

A Norfolk, Nebraska, man has been charged with murder in connection to the November death of a Yankton, South Dakota woman.

Forty-seven-year-old Joseph James is charged with four counts, including Murder in Indian Country, Kidnapping Resulting in Death, and Carjacking Resulting in Death, in the death of 59-year-old Phyllis Hunhoff on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation.

A hearing has been set for February 28 in U.S. District Court in Nebraska.

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[iulia]

Norfolk man pleads not guilty to murder charge in death of Yankton woman

A Norfolk, Nebraska, man has pleaded not guilty to the November death of a Yankton, South Dakota woman.

Forty-seven-year-old Joseph James is charged with four counts, including Murder in Indian Country, Kidnapping Resulting in Death, and Carjacking Resulting in Death, in the death of 59-year-old Phyllis Hunhoff on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation.

James has waived his right to a speedy trial.

 

[iulia]

2nd man charged in death of Yankton, SD woman

(KTIV) – A second man is now being charged in the death of a November 2018 death of a Yankton, South Dakota woman.

According to a recently unsealed indictment in U.S. District Court of Nebraska, Ramon Simpson is being charged with kidnapping resulting in death and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, in connection to the death of 59-year-old Phyllis Hunhoff on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Norfolk Man Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder in Indian Country
United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joseph Lloyd James, 48, of Norfolk, entered a plea of guilty today in federal court in Omaha to First Degree Murder in Indian Country. James murdered Phyllis Hunhoff, of Yankton, South Dakota, on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska. United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher ordered a presentence investigation report and set sentencing for May 6, 2020 at 10 a.m. in Omaha. James’s plea agreement mandates a life sentence. As part of his plea agreement, he waives his right to appeal, to seek a pardon, or commutation.

Phyllis Hunhoff regularly traveled from her home in Yankton to her mother’s home in Utica, South Dakota. Her regular practice was to call her mother upon returning to Yankton. On November 4, 2018, at approximately 10 p.m., Phyllis Hunhoff left her mother’s residence, alone, to drive home to Yankton. She did not call her mother as she did not make it home. Having not heard from her daughter, her mother began repeatedly calling her phone to determine her whereabouts. All calls were unanswered.

James and other men were near Phyllis Hunhoff’s mother’s residence as she was leaving. James and another man encountered Phyllis Hunhoff outside of the residence and got into her car with her inside. James, Phyllis Hunhoff, and another man traveled to Norfolk, Nebraska, arriving at about 11:00 p.m. When they arrived in Norfolk, James remained in the vehicle, and the other man left the vehicle. James drove Phyllis Hunhoff’s vehicle, with her inside, to the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Knox County, Nebraska.

During the early morning hours of November 5, 2018, while on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation, James killed Phyllis Hunhoff. He stabbed her with a knife and strangled her. She died in her vehicle as a result of the bleeding and strangulation. James drove Phyllis Hunhoff’s vehicle to a gas station on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation. Video from the gas station showed James putting gasoline into her vehicle and driving away. Later, James returned in the same vehicle to the gas station and pumped gasoline into a soda bottle. James put the bottle containing the gasoline into the vehicle. He then drove to a wooded location on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Knox County, Nebraska, where he set fire to Hunhoff’s body and her vehicle to conceal evidence of the murder. He abandoned the body and vehicle and left the area.

Norfolk Man Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder in Indian Country

 

[JerseyGirl]

Norfolk Man sentenced to Life for murder of Yankton woman