A Minnesota woman who shot a man at her father’s home then tried to hide the body will spend the next two decades in prison.
Josephine Powers, 27, was sentenced to just under 22 years behind bars on Tuesday after pleading guilty to second-degree intentional murder. Powers was arrested after she told police that she shot 70-year-old Michael Robert Riccio at her father’s home in Burnsville, Minnesota, on July 9, 2024. Her father was on vacation at the time, and when he returned home, he saw what he believed were “splatters” of “brown paint” all over the house.
When he came home for a lunch break from work, he encountered a man in a hazmat suit “cleaning up the brown paint” and ripping up the carpet in the basement…