An Owatonna man was sentenced to serve life in prison on Thursday in connection with the murder of a Minneapolis woman over 50 years ago.
Genetic testing led to the arrest of now 84-year-old Jon Miller this past November. Miller pleaded “no contest” to one count of first-degree murder, which has a mandatory life sentence. He must also pay $2,200 in restitution and over $480 to cover the cost of extraditing him to Wisconsin.
Mary Schlais was 25 years old, hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago for an art show, when she was fatally stabbed in February 1974…