Suspect billed in 1974 killing unveiled from jail on medical furlough
Vossen, 73, was produced into the care of his niece Janette Sanders, Oct. 27, to seek out medical treatment for various mental and physical disabilities, including dementia.
A indigenous of Willmar, Vossen had earlier been hospitalized in the Centra Treatment Healthcare facility in St. Cloud from Oct. 17 to 27 for medical treatment.
Vossen was arrested in Minnehaha County, S.D., on July 23, soon after a chilly situation investigation by the Willmar Law enforcement Section related Vossen to the homicide with DNA proof. He had been questioned about the demise in 1974, but it was not right up until 2020 that he was arrested.
The State of Minnesota, represented by Kristen Pierce, to start with assistant Kandiyohi County Legal professional, asked for medical furlough for Vossen as the Kandiyohi County Jail, along with the Minnesota Section of Corrections, was not equipped to treatment for Vossen’s existing medical problem.
According to an Oct. 29 correspondence with the court from Vossen’s attorney, Kent Marshall of Barrett, Minn., Vossen met with his private medical professional in Sioux Falls who considered Vossen would be in a position to rely on residence treatment if there was a hematologist concerned, between other professionals.
Sanders, Vossen’s niece, was unable to find a placement for him in Sioux Falls.
“The issue of training course is two-fold he is technically in the custody of Kandiyohi County dealing with murder fees and all people is anxious about COVID-19 and not allowing new admissions,” Marshall wrote to the court.
Vossen traveled with Sanders to her home in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 29, exactly where he is under dwelling arrest and supervision by Sanders.
Pierce asked for Vossen don GPS monitoring to identify his site in the desire of general public safety and because of to the mother nature of his legal costs.
“Mr. Marshall has kept the court and our office environment educated of Mr. Vossen’s general area,” Pierce wrote to the courtroom on Oct. 29. “However, Mr. Vossen has been to three states in a few times. The stage of supervision or his access to the local community is unfamiliar.”
Vossen was demanded to surrender his passport and indication a waiver of extradition if his treatment required him to journey exterior of Minnesota or South Dakota. So significantly, the court docket has not ordered him to use GPS checking.
On Nov. 2, Vossen’s attorney submitted a motion that the courtroom need to order a mental and actual physical evaluation of Vossen because Marshall believes that Vossen suffers from dementia “that prohibits him from moving into into significant conversations with his legal professional for reasons of getting ready for trial” as effectively as “various extreme physical disabilities and ailments that make it pretty much unachievable for him to assist me, as his defense counsel.”
A movement for continuance by Marshall was granted, canceling the Nov. 24 pre-trial courtroom day and scheduling a listening to for Jan. 5.
