GALENA, Mo. (AP) — A southwestern Missouri woman has been ordered to spend 14 years in prison after she admitted in court that she had a role in killing a man whose body was found by hikers along a Table Rock Lake shore.
Twenty-one-year-old Ann Marie Jean Patrick of Kimberling City was sentenced Friday. She pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and theft of a motor vehicle. Six other counts were dropped.
Patrick initially was charged with first-degree murder in the 2013 death of 28-year-old Dan Martin of Lampe. His pickup truck was found later in Arkansas.
A co-defendant, 30-year-old Justin Tuttle of Lampe, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the case. He’s to go on trial in September in Jasper County on a venue change.