A woman pleaded guilty in Platte County court Tuesday for the robbery and murder of a truck driver at a rest stop north of Camden Point in 2008.

Dana K Tutor, 42 of Mississippi pleaded to first-degree robbery and second-degree murder for her part in the shooting death of Valentin Kirilchuk, an immigrant from Ukraine.

Platte County Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd said Tutor aspired to be like Bonnie Parker of “Bonnie and Clyde.”

“The robbery and murder were the culmination of a cross-country crime spree by Tutor and her boyfriend, John Hughes.  During the spree, the two talked about getting ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ tattoos as a tribute to the notorious outlaws,” Zahnd said in a news release.

Zahnd said Hughes, a gang member and the man who pulled the trigger, was previously convicted of first-degree murder.  He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors showed Tutor approached multiple truck drivers at the rest area on I-29 north at mile marker 27 near Dearborn on September 8, 2008.  She tried to convince them to come with her into the rest stop building, where Hughes laid in wait.  She pretended that she needed money for diapers and food for a baby. Kirilchuk followed Tutor into the building and then Hughes robbed him, and shot him through the head.

Hours later, Hughes was arrested in York, Nebraska, by a Nebraska State Trooper for a traffic violation and driving under the influence.  Inside the vehicle, troopers found the murder weapon, ammunition, and property belonging to another murder victim from Ohio.

“This defendant wanted to be like Bonnie and Clyde, and she was.  Just like Bonnie and Clyde, she and her boyfriend John Hughes are robbers and murderers,” Zahnd said.

As part of the plea agreement Tutor faces up to 20 years in prison.  She is scheduled to be sentenced on July 27 at 10 a.m.