Man Accused Of Kidnapping And Murder Says Co-Defendant Was Mastermind

(Cedar Rapids, IA) — An eastern Iowa man charged with the kidnapping and murder of his former girlfriend says it was all his co-defendant’s doing. Jurors in the trial of McKinley Louisma heard a post-arrest police interview in which he says Dakota Van Patten forced him at gunpoint to bind, strip, and strangle Melody Hoffman last February.

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