Yankton man sentenced to life in prison for 2025 murder
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Yankton man sentenced to life in prison for 2025 murder
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- A Yankton man has changed his plea and was sentenced to life in prison for killing a woman in 2025. In court Tuesday, 33-year-old Craig Nichols Jr. pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the murder of 41-year-old Heather Bodden, who was found decapitated in a Yankton apartment in January of [...]
Decapitation case lands Yankton man life in prison without parole
YANKTON, S.D. — A Yankton man has been sentenced to serve life in prison in connection with a 2025 decapitation death of a woman in Yankton. A Yankton County judge on Tuesday, March 31, sentenced 33-year-old Craig Nichols Jr. to life in prison without the possibility of parole after the defendant pleaded guilty but mentally ill to one count of second-degree murder. The case centered on the death of 41-year-old Heather Bodden, who was found dead …
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