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RAPID CITY, S.D. – After more than a decade of interviews and investigation, the case of Meshell Will’s murder was closed on March 22, 2024, after Richard Schmitz was sentenced

Meshell Will’s badly decomposed body was found along a road in the Black Hills National Forest. Source

Meshell Will's badly decomposed body was found along a road in the Black Hills National Forest.

Richard Schmitz, the 55-year-old man who accepted responsibility for the 2013 death of 38-year-old Meshell Will, was sentenced Friday morning to 10 years in prison for second-degree manslaughter.

A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the 2013 death of his girlfriend. Fifty-five-year-old Richard Schmitz took a plea deal in January,

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the 20...

A South Dakota man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter in the 2013 death of his girlfriend.

Richard Schmitz entered an Alford plea Tuesday to second-degree manslaughter for the death of 38-year-old Meshell Will in 2013.

$1 million bail for South Dakota man charged in 2013 death July 19, 2021 GMT RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A judge set bond at $1 million for a South Dakota man charged Monday with killing a woman whose decomposed body was found in the Black Hills in 2013. Richard Melvin Schmitz, 53, was arrested at his home near Hill City without incident Friday morning for the death of 38-year-old Meshell Will, of Custer. Schmitz is charged with second degree murder. Originally from Wisconsin, Will had been in So...

$1 million bail for South Dakota man charged in 2013 death of Wisconsin woman July 19, 2021 8:29 PM Associated Press File photo RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A judge has set bond at $1 million for a South Dakota man charged with killing a woman whose decomposed body was found in the Black Hills in 2013. Fifty-three-year-old Richard Melvin Schmitz was arrested at his home near Hill City without incident Friday morning for the death of 38-year-old Meshell Will, of Custer. Sch...