Her arrest came four days after Hutchinson’s car was seen about 50 miles from Corpus Christi, Texas. Investigators said Riess withdrew around $5,000 from Hutchinson’s bank account while in Florida, CNN affiliate WINK reported. “Riess’ mode of operation is to befriend women who resemble her and steal their identity,” Marceno said at an earlier news conference. She faces charges of second-degree murder with a firearm, grand theft of a motor vehicle, criminal use of personal identification and another count of grand theft, said Samantha Syoen, communications director for the state attorney’s office. Grandmother accused of killing her husband may also have killed a woman to steal her identity (Dodge County Sheriff's Office via AP) AP She has not yet been charged in that case. Riess is also wanted in the March death of her husband, David Riess. Authorities don't believe the women knew each other, but that Riess killed Hutchinson earlier this week to assume her identity. Riess is charged in the shooting death of Pamela Hutchinson of Bradenton, Fla. This undated photo provided by the Dodge County, Minn., Sheriff's Office shows Lois Riess, of Blooming Prairie, Minn., who is being sought in connection with the killing of a Florida woman. She aimed to steal the “victim’s driver license, credit cards and 2005 white Acura,” the agency said. Riess is believed to have killed 59-year-old Pamela Hutchinson sometime between April 5 and April 9 in a condo in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, according to Deputy US Marshal John Kinsey and a marshals service news release. “She looks like anybody’s mother or grandmother, yet she’s an absolute cold-blooded murderer.” “This case from the very beginning struck me as odd,” he said. It was not immediately clear Friday when Riess next would be back in either state, Marceno said at a news conference.

The search expanded to Florida this month, when officials linked Riess to the shooting death of a woman who looked like her. We are working as expeditiously as possible to bring her back to Lee County to face murder charges.”Īuthorities began searching for Riess in Minnesota, where she allegedly killed her husband in March. “Tonight, she sits in a jail cell in Texas. “I promised all along that Lois Riess would end up in a pair of handcuffs,” Lee County Undersheriff Carmine Marceno said in a statement. Authorities found Riess about 25 minutes after they got a tip from someone who spotted her at a restaurant, said Nikki Soto, a spokeswoman for the Texas resort town.

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