Jul 18, 2008 7:28 am US/Central
Louisiana Ex-Fugitive Pleads Guilty In MN Murder
BUFFALO, Minn. (AP) ―
A Louisiana man who led authorities on a two-week search last summer has pleaded guilty in the strangulation death of a Minnesota woman.
Jeremy Brooks, 27, accepted the plea deal Thursday in Wright County District Court.
Brooks is expected to get a life sentence without parole for the death of 58-year-old Ruth Ouverson August 3, 2007, near Montrose.
Before serving his Minnesota sentence, Brooks will go to Kentucky where he's expected to plead guilty in the deaths of 69-year-old Hugh O'Dea and 50-year-old Robert Eugene Elliott.
Brooks' alleged accomplice in the slayings, Coty Martinez, has not entered a plea.
The two led state and federal officers on a two-week manhunt to North Dakota before being found in a wheat field near Drake, North Dakota, on August 17, 2007.
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