Killer grandma hunted look-alikes amid murder spree
Published: January 29, 2021 9:00 PM EST
Updated: January 29, 2021 9:43 PM EST
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If you’ve ever chatted with a stranger in a restaurant or bar, you might rethink doing that, especially if that stranger looks like you.
We looked back into a well-known killer to many of us here in Southwest Florida, and the women who could have been her next victims.
There’s something about beach towns that makes it easy to strike up a conversation with a stranger.
If you’ve been in Southwest Florida a while, you probably remember convicted killer Lois Riess chatting it up at the bar with a woman who looked similar to her, a woman she’d later murder.
Updated: 1:12 PM EST January 29, 2021
DODGE COUNTY, Minn. It was as unlikely a story as one could imagine, which made the saga of Lois Riess so compelling, and so tragic.
Riess, a grandmother from Dodge County in southeastern Minnesota, was the subject of a nationwide manhunt in the spring of 2018 after authorities said she first killed her husband, then fled to Florida where Riess murdered Pam Hutchinson, a woman she met at a bar in Fort Myers Beach.
Investigators finally caught up with Riess in Texas, and arrested her. She has since pleaded guilty to murder charges in both cases, and is imprisoned for the rest of her life in Minnesota.