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U.S. NEWS Thursday 7 december 2017
Trial set for man accused of killing neighbor, taking baby

of 22-year-old Savanna in plastic and duct tape in
Greywind, but Crews has the Red River.
a change-of-plea hearing Investigators haven’t said
scheduled for Monday. how Greywind was killed.
Relatives of Greywind at- The baby girl, who survived,
tended Wednesday’s hear- was found in Crews and
ing for Hoehn and glared Hoehn’s apartment. Grey-
at him after he entered the wind’s boyfriend, Ashton
courtroom handcuffed at Matheny, said DNA tests
the wrists and chained at confirmed that he and
the ankles. Hoehn looked in Greywind are the girl’s par-
their direction but showed ents. He now has custody
no emotion. of the baby.
Hoehn’s attorney, Daniel Crews’ attorney, Steven
Borgen, told East Central Mottinger, said his cli-
District Judge Tom Olson ent does not have a plea
that he would be ready for agreement with prosecu-
trial in March, but the judge tors, but declined to give
did not set a specific date. further details about next
William Hoehn, right, appears with his attorney, Daniel James Borgen, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, Hoehn was not asked to week’s hearing.
2017, for a hearing in Cass County Court in Fargo, N.D. Hoehn and his girlfriend, Brooke Crews, are speak. Crews told police she ar-
charged with conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping in the death of 22-year-old Savanna The Greywind family was ranged to have Greywind
Greywind, of Fargo. Trial is scheduled in March for Hoehn. A change of plea hearing for Crews is ushered into a separate come to her apartment on
scheduled for Dec. 11. Hoehn and Crews pleaded not guilty earlier. room in the courthouse af- Aug. 19 and told her how
(Michael Vosburg/The Forum via AP) ter the hearing. to induce labor, and that
By DAVE KOLPACK, Associ- Dakota man accused of his 38-year-old girlfriend, Greywind, who lived in Greywind returned two
ated Press killing a pregnant neigh- Brooke Crews, have plead- Fargo, was eight months days later to give her the
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge bor so he and his girlfriend ed not guilty to conspiracy pregnant when she disap- infant.
on Wednesday scheduled could keep the baby. to commit murder and peared Aug. 19. Kayakers Hoehn gave investigators a
a March trial for a North William Hoehn, 32, and kidnapping in the death found her body wrapped different account.q
Judge detains ricin suspect with prior suicide attempts

By LISA RATHKE oil. The department said tentive to his wife who had a Democrat from Durham, Noble said Tuesday that he
Associated Press Friday no one at the senior experienced some diffi- who is still serving in the believes Betty Miller was liv-
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) living facility is currently ill. culty in coping,” said fellow Legislature. Acting Shel- ing alone in her apartment
— The extensive mental Miller said she harvested state Rep. Marjorie Smith, burne Police Chief Aaron at Wake Robin.q
health history of a woman 30 to 40 castor beans from
accused of manufacturing plants growing on Wake
ricin and testing the deadly Robin’s property and
toxin on fellow residents of made two or three table-
an upscale senior living fa- spoons of ricin twice in
cility in Vermont includes her kitchen and exposed
hospitalizations and suicide residents to the ricin on at
attempts, a federal judge least three occasions, the
said Wednesday. federal complaint says.
The judge ordered Betty A powder found in a pill
Miller, 70, to continue to be bottle in Miller’s kitchen
detained. Her lawyer said cabinet labeled “ricin”
he was looking for a more tested positive for the toxin,
appropriate place for her the complaint says.
other than jail, given her Judge John Conroy not-
mental state. ed that Miller had no prior
Miller was taken into cus- criminal history, no sub-
tody last week after telling stance abuse and strong
investigators she made the family ties. Her detention
ricin because she wanted will be revisited if an ap-
to “injure herself” and had propriate treatment plan
tested the poison’s effec- is found, he said. Miller had
tiveness by putting it in resi- lived for a long time in New
dents’ food or beverages. Hampshire after marrying
Federal prosecutors said Dr. Joseph Miller in 1976. The
Health Department testing couple had two children,
of a person Miller admitted including a son who lives in
to poisoning came back Vermont. He did not return
positive for the presence of a phone call seeking com-
ricinine, which is an indica- ment. After retiring, Joseph
tor of potential ricin expo- Miller served in the New
sure but also may indicate Hampshire House of Repre-
exposure to other castor sentatives as a Democrat
derivatives, such as castor from Durham. “He was at-