A 21-year-old woman in Missouri will spend decades behind bars for killing her boyfriend , fatally shooting the 24-year-old victim in the head on New Year’s Eve after finding “messages from him to other women.” Webster County Circuit Judge Chuck C. Replogle ordered Madison Nicole Rueckert to serve 35 years in a state correctional facility for the 2022 slaying of Jonathan Miller, court records filed on Monday show.
According to court documents, Rueckert had initially been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action over the shooting. However, she reached a deal with prosecutors last month in which she agreed to plead guilty to one count of second-degree murder and one count of armed criminal action. Replogle subsequently sentenced her to 25 years on the murder and 10 years on the lesser charge, to be served consecutively.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Marshfield Mail, the incident took place at a local residence on the night of Dec. 31, 2022. Rueckert was reportedly motivated to kill Miller after she went through his phone and found that he had been exchanging text messages with other women…