Troy Michael Mitteness, 56, has been charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly fatally stabbed his mother, Sandra Mitteness, after researching ‘how to kill an elderly person,’ online, authorities said.
A Burnsville man was charged Monday with murdering his mother, whose body he allegedly then dismembered and put into totes that he left in ditches and at a rest stop.
Family members told police that Troy Mitteness said his mother was hospitalized after falling down stairs, then claimed she had COVID-19 so nobody could visit her, court documents state.
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