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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Federal prosecutors not seeking death penalty in plea deal with man accused of killing top Minnesota Dem

2026-06-11

[NYPost] US prosecutors said Wednesday they will not seek the death penalty as part of a plea agreement with the man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House along with her husband, as well as the attempted murders of a state senator and his wife.

… Democrat State Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman were murdered, State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman survived…

The defendant, Vance Boelter,

…age 57. It turned out that Governor Tim Waltz had appointed him to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board; he claimed the governor had ordered him to do the assassinations. There was speculation this was to conceal money laundering fraud involving illegal immigrants, while others think the man is nuts...

was scheduled for a change-of-plea hearing Thursday morning in federal court in Minneapolis.

“The Attorney General has authorized and directed the government not to seek the death penalty against Defendant Vance Luther Boelter in accordance with the terms delineated in a proposed plea agreement,” assistant US attorneys Bradley M. Endicott and Matthew D. Forbes wrote in a letter to the court Wednesday.

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