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Authorities say victim was hit in the head and stabbed. Posted: Jul 21, 2021 7:31 PM Posted By: Mike Bunge WINONA, Minn. – A brutal killing is sending an 80-year-old man to prison for almost a decade. Joseph Bailly Wright of Dakota was sentenced Thursday to 10 years and eight months behind bars, with credit for 377 days already served. Wright pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his wife. The body of Klara Wright, 72, was found in a chair at their home on July 10, 2020. Authorities say Wright apparently hit his wife in the head with a hammer-like object and stabbed her tw...

Dakota man pleads guilty in wife's murder (4/16/2021)   Just days before his case was to go to trial, a Dakota man signed a plea agreement on Tuesday admitting to the murder of his wife last year.  Joseph Bailly Wright, 79, was arrested for killing his wife, Klara, July 10, 2020. Authorities charged him with second-degree murder with intent and held him on a $1 million bail. His case was scheduled to go to trial beginning April 19. However, a plea bargain made between Winona County prosecutors, including County Attorney Karin Sonneman, and Wright’s public defender,...