A Minnesota woman will not serve additional jail time for helping her boyfriend move a dismembered murder victim in a tote bag, authorities say.
Alexis Marion Elling, 24, pleaded guilty to aiding an offender, accessory after the fact in the 2023 death of Rodney Pendegayosh Jr., per court records. Elling spent nearly a year in jail for helping her boyfriend, 23-year-old Bradley Allen Weyaus Jr., move Pendegayosh’s body from a home in Isle, some 100 miles north of Minneapolis. She also helped him dispose of a shotgun case.
Elling admitted that she knew her boyfriend had murdered Pendegayosh and that the body was in the tote bag they were moving. She kept track of the bag for two days, according to prosecutors. Authorities later recovered Pendegayosh’s body along a snowy road. As part of the plea agreement a judge stayed the 57-month jail sentence as long as Elling honors the terms of her probation which include not using alcohol or drugs. She was given credit for the 324 days she already served in jail…