The woman accused of killing her elderly parents earlier this month is scheduled faced a judge Thursday.

Lynette McQuinn, also known as Renee, attended a preliminary hearing. McQuinn is accused of shooting 70-year-old  Robert John McQuinn and 66-year-old Ada Pearl McQuinn in their home on Wilson Lane at 11:30 a.m.

Prosecutors say that the way her parents were found murdered is the exact way McQuinn had previously threatened to kill them in the past.

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Lynette’s sister Cristina found the bodies.

“I check on them every morning and I came across the street to check on them. And I walked in and seen them, I found them that way,” said Cristina.

Kentucky State Police said they had both been shot.  Cristina said she immediately knew her sister was responsible.

“She’s been mentally ill our whole lives and she has planned this. She planned it, that’s why they made her leave the last time she came here. She told them how she was going to kill them,” Cristina told LEX 18.

Detectives in court said that text messages prove that McQuinn was at the victims’ home around 1:20 a.m.  The murder weapon, a 9 mm Ruger was recovered in a field not far from the crime scene.

The couple was buried last week in Emmalena.

On May 13^th of 2016, Detectives of the Rapid City Police Department were notified by the Newcastle Police Department that a witness had come forward with knowledge of a homicide that took place in May of 2015 and could show law enforcement where the victim’s body had been buried.

Detectives of the RCPD and Investigators with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office made contact with the witness. The witness was able to direct law enforcement to an undisclosed location south of Rockerville. A grid search was conducted, and two gravesites were located. Evidence specialists from the RCPD and the SD Division of Criminal investigation were called in to process both sites, and the body of the victim was located in one of the sites.

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The victim is identified as 22-year-old Jessica Rehfeld of Rapid City. The RCPD called on the public’s help to locate Rehfeld as a missing person on May 22^nd, 2015.

After Jessica was located, the priority then shifted to locating the suspects responsible for her death. Information garnered in the subsequent investigation led law enforcement to focus on three suspects. These suspects have been arrested on charges of First Degree Murder. They are identified as:

•          26-year-old Jonathon Klinetobe of Sturgis
•          24-year-old David Schneider of Rapid City
•          35-year-old Richard Hirth of Rapid City

All three have been interviewed, and information garnered in the investigation outlines to a case of murder-for-hire. Detectives and investigators believe Jonathon Kinetobe offered David Schneider and Richard Hirth thousands of dollars for Jessica’s murder. Klinetobe is an ex-boyfriend of Jessica’s.

On May 18^th, 2015, David and Richard offered to give Jessica a ride to where she worked. Instead, they drove her to a secluded service road on Rapid City’s northeast side where she was stabbed to death. Her body was placed in a bag, and the two men picked up Jonathan Klinetobe at his house before heading to the burial site south of Rockerville. That night, the three men buried Jessica.

Within the span of about two weeks, Klinetobe solicited the help of two more suspects in an effort to further hide Jessica’s body. They are identified as:

•          24-year-old Michael Frye of Rapid City
•          29-year-old Garland Brown of Rapid City.

These two men helped Jonathan Klinetobe move Jessica’s body and place it in a second grave site nearby. Both Frye and Brown have now been arrested for Accessory to First Degree Murder.


“All of this information has come to light in a matter of of days, thanks to the cooperative and dedicated work of dozens of personnel from multiple local law enforcement agencies,” said Captain James Johns of the RCPD’s Criminal Investigations Division. “Hundreds of man-hours were spent over this past weekend to work to understand the details and motivations behind this homicide.“

This incident spans a wide area, and highlights the close working relationship our agencies have when it comes to holding these offenders accountable of their crimes. It all started with help from the Newcastle Police Department. Personnel from the Rapid City Police Department’s evidence section and specialists from the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation spent hours out in the field alongside detectives and investigators working to painstakingly process the burial sites. Deputies of the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office stepped up to provide hours of scene security as the sites were processed. Deputies of the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office worked with the RCPD and PCSO to safely apprehend a Richard Hirth, who was located living in St. Onge.

“It’s difficult work, and it’s grueling work,” said PCSO Chief Deputy Willie Whelchel. “Black Hills residents should be proud of the exhausting effort these men and women are putting in while the rest of the community sleeps, and we’re all certainly thankful these dangerous individuals are now off the streets.”

This is still a very-much open and active investigation. Anyone with any further information about this case is uged to contact police investigations at 394-4134. You can also send an anonymous tip by texting the letters ‘RCPD’ and the information to 847411.

A gas pump skimmer was found at a Lexington gas station.

Employees at the Marathon on West Main Street say that they discovered the skimmer Tuesday afternoon.

Lexington police tell LEX 18 that skimmers have been a problem for about five years now.

Thieves use the skimmers to steal personal information at gas pumps.

This time, instead of placing the skimmer on the outside of the pump, the thieves used keys to get inside of the pump. Police say that the thieves possibly bought the key online.

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The skimming devices were hidden from the public eye and employees didn’t notice them at first.

Lexington police say their Financial Crimes Unit will now contact banks to give them a heads up about the crime.

“We can notify those banks that the numbers have been copied down and the banks can put an alert it,” said Mike Helsby with the Financial Crimes Unit.

Lexington police say to always check and make sure that the security tape on the openings of the gas pump machines has not been compromised.

Two people were arrested after a traffic stop in which drug paraphernalia was discovered in a diaper bag.

Christopher L. Lawson, 29, and April N. Hicks, 24, of London were stopped for expired registration but ended up being arrested for more serious charges.

Upon making contact with Lawson, the driver of the vehicle, it was determined that he had bought the vehicle a few weeks ago and had not transferred the title to his name. In addition, he didn’t have insurance on the vehicle and his license was suspended. Police noticed that Lawson had constricted pupils and a glazed over look in his eyes, and attempted to administer a standard field sobriety test on him.

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Lawson then stated that he could not balance but did displayed impairment through an HGN test. He had white residue on his nostrils and admitted to snorting a Lortab earlier that day, as well as taking methamphetamine two days prior.

A infant was in the car.

Hicks, a passenger in the vehicle, had a bench warrant for her arrest.  Hicks admitted to smoking marijuana prior to the traffic stop and had shot up methamphetamine three days ago. Police conducted a search of the vehicle and discovered Methamphetamine within Hicks’ diaper bag as well as a syringe.

The Department for Community Based Services were notified, removed the infant and released it to its grandmother.

Lawson was arrested and charged with no registration plates, no registration receipt, failure of owner to maintain required insurance/sec., failure to produce insurance card, failure to register transfer of motor vehicle, operating on suspended or revoked operator’s license, operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol/drugs/etc. (aggravated circumstances) of the second offense, and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Hicks was arrested and charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance, buying or possessing drug paraphernalia, endangering the welfare of a minor, public intoxication of a controlled substance excluding alcohol, theft by unlawful taking or disp. All others under $500, failure to issue insurance card, and failure to wear a seat belt.

Both were lodged in the Laurel County Detention Center.

For at least the second time in three months, a Lake Elsinore parolee and a Winchester woman have been caught with a carload of evidence suggesting mail and identity theft, this time in Temecula, according to law enforcement officials and jail records.

Most recently 25-year-old Jacob Bertino and 29-year-old Ashley Lawrence were arrested at 12:49 p.m. Thursday, May 12, and booked for investigation of committing a felony while on bail, possessing stolen property, identity theft, and drug possession, jail records show.

Deputies spotted them getting out of a car along Moreno Road, southwest of Interstate 15 and Rancho California Road.

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After learning that Bertino was on parole, deputies searched the vehicle and found apparently stolen mail, credit cards, personal checks, ATM cards, California drivers licenses and identity cards, and amphetamine, Sgt. Chris Gaskins said in a written statement released Monday.

On Feb. 16, the pair was arrested in a Corona foothill community along the 3800 block of Holly Springs Drive, just below the mouth of Main Street Canyon, Corona police said at the time.

On that occasion, their vehicle contained apparently stolen credit cards, social security cards, altered checks, Amazon packages, and filed containing information on many people, investigators said.

A Florida man says he shot his sick wife because she was in pain and he could no longer afford her medication, according to WPTV in Florida.

Detectives in Port St. Lucie say William Hager was remorseful when he told them he shot and killed his wife, but he said he couldn’t afford to get her the medical help she needed.

It was a last resort, he told police. Hager’s wife Carolyn suffered with chronic medical problems including arthritis for around 15 years.

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Chief Deputy Gary Wilson, of the St. Lucie Sheriff’s Office, told WPTV, “We don’t see it in situations like this where there’s a death involved but we frequently get called to different locations for different problems where people are at their wits end, trying to figure out how they’re going to makes ends meet, how they’re going to cover medical.”

The sheriff’s office says there are drug manufacturers who offer help for people struggling to pay for their medications.

Hager is facing a charge of first-degree murder.