Nebraska man found guilty in fatal 2018 kidnapping of Yankton woman Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska man has been found guilty of helping kidnap a South Dakota woman who was later killed on the Santee Sioux Indian Reservation in Nebraska. Federal prosecutors said Ramon Simpson, 50, of Norfolk, Nebraska, was convicted Wednesday for his role in the Nov. 5, 2018 kidnapping of Phyllis Hunhoff. Because the kidnapping resulted in Hunhoff's death, Simpson is facing a mandatory life sentence. Prosecutors said Simpson and Joseph James, of Norfolk, abducted Hunhoff as she left her mother's home in Utica, South Dakota, for her home in Yankton, South Dakota. Simpson and James entered Hunhoff's car before she could drive away, and they took her to Norfolk.