Nebraska man sentenced to life for fatal 2018 kidnapping of Yankton woman
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
View Comments
OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska man has been sentenced to a mandatory life term in federal prison for helping kidnap a South Dakota woman who was later killed on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska.
Ramon Simpson, 51, of Norfolk, was sentenced Wednesday for the November 2018 kidnapping of 59-year-old Phyllis Hunhoff, federal prosecutors said in a news release.
Prosecutors said Simpson and Joseph James, also of Norfolk, abducted Hunhoff as she left her mother's home in Utica, South Dakota, for her home in Yankton, South Dakota. Simpson and James entered Hunhoff's car before she could drive away and took her to Norfolk.