"She was full of life. She was a great listener, a great friend, a great mom. Full of life,” Michelle Mae’s mother told the Dispatch in 2019 about her daughter. “She wanted to see her kids go off to school or get married and have babies. It was something that she was looking forward to because she knew how much I loved being a grandma.”
Aitkin County man pleads guilty to murder in strangulation death
Joshua Karjala, 36, pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder in the death of Michelle Mae during a plea hearing in Aitkin County District Court in Aitkin, Minn. A jury trial for Karjala was scheduled to begin June 14. However, Karjala pleaded guilty to the murder charge in an amended criminal complaint.
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Joshua Emil Karjala
AITKIN, Minn. A 36-year-old Swatara, Minn., man admitted in court Thursday, April 15, to being the one responsible for the strangulation death of a 35-year-old Outing, Minn., woman
Joshua Karjala pleaded guilty to second-degree unintentional murder in the death of Michelle Mae in front of Judge David F. Hermerding during a plea hearing in Aitkin County District Court in Aitkin, Minn. A jury trial for Karjala was scheduled to begin June 14. However, Karjala pleaded guilty to the murder charge in an am
Swatara man pleads guilty to murder in strangulation death
“. I assume the police were going to be coming to my house. I grabbed all my drugs and I tried eating them. I ate probably roughly 2 grams of meth laced with ecstasy, and I blacked out . When I woke up I panicked. I tried hiding her body, the Swatara man told the court during a plea agreement hearing.
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Joshua Emil Karjala
AITKIN A 36-year-old Swatara man admitted Thursday, April 15, to being the one responsible for the strangulation death of a 35-year-old Outing woman during a plea hearing in Aitkin County District Court in Aitkin.
Man pleads guilty in 2019 murder of Outing woman
Joshua Emil Karjala s sentencing is set for June.
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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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