Minnesota man will stand trial in murder of woman stuffed in refrigerator

LOS ANGELES (CN) — A man from Minnesota will stand trial for the grisly murder of a woman whose body was found stuffed inside a refrigerator in her downtown Los Angeles apartment in 2023.

After a four-day preliminary hearing, LA County Superior Court Judge Drew Edwards found prosecutors had presented enough evidence to hold 41-year-old Magnus Humphrey over for trial. Humphrey, who is charged with two felonies — murder and torture — has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors say Humphrey and Maleesa Mooney, a 31-year-old part-time model and part-time escort, met five days before her murder. The two were introduced by a friend of Mooney’s, who was also friends with Humphrey’s brother. From that day on they were all but inseparable, according to testimony by a friend of Mooney’s…

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