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James David Russell will serve a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole in connection to David M. Flaget's 2021 murder.
SANDPOINT — A 40-year-old North Idaho man accused of killing a 70-year-old man in 2021 was sentenced to life in prison Monday in Bonner County District Court. James D. Russell pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in November. A related cannibalism charge against Russell was dismissed last June. Judge Barbara Buchanan said that out of Idaho’s […]
James David Russell, 40, pled guilty to second-degree murder as part of a plea deal in exchange to the state dropping a first-degree murder charge.
SANDPOINT (The Spokesman-Review) — A 40-year-old North Idaho man accused of killing a 70-year-old man in 2021 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday in Bonner County District Court. In June, a judge dismissed a related cannibalism charge against James D. Russell. “The court did not find sufficient evidence to show the defendant actually ingested parts […]
A man has been charged with murder and cannibalism after allegedly microwaving a 70-year-old man’s body parts, cops say. The accused, James 'Jimmy' David Russell, 39, from Idaho, is said to have believed that eating victim David M Flaget "would cure his brain".