Man pleads guilty in 2019 murder of Outing woman
Joshua Emil Karjala s sentencing is set for June.
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Cass County Sheriff s Office
The man charged in the 2019 murder of an Outing, Minnesota woman, who was missing for more than two weeks before her body was found, pleaded guilty Thursday.
Joshua Emil Karjala, 34, of Swatara, was charged with second-degree murder in November 2019 in the death of Michelle Mae, 35.
Mae’s disappearance in October 2019 sparked a two-week search, which ended when her body was found on Karjala’s property.
Mae was first reported missing on Oct. 3, with her ex-boyfriend, ex-husband, daughter and son all telling authorities they last heard from her the day before. Mae’s cell phone had been switched off at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 3.
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April 16, 2021
Joshua Emil Karjala, of Swatara, was arrested on October 5 for violating his probation.
According to authorities, while executing a search warrant at Karjala’s home on October 15 the body of Michelle Mae was located.
Mae had been missing since October 3, 2019.
An autopsy report later determined Mae’s cause of death to be a homicide. Karjala is accused of strangling Mae to death.
Karjala’s sentencing hearing will be in June.