{"id":29608,"date":"2022-03-11T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=29608"},"modified":"2022-03-11T23:32:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T23:32:27","slug":"man-sentenced-for-killing-woman-burning-body-on-reservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/11\/man-sentenced-for-killing-woman-burning-body-on-reservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for killing woman, burning body on reservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div data-key=\"article\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">A Winnebago man was sentenced Friday to 25 years in federal prison for killing the mother of his child and burning her body in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that Jonathan Rooney, 27, was sentenced for the death of 22-year-old Kozee Decorah. He was convicted in December of manslaughter and destruction of evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Authorities say Rooney killed Decorah and burned her body and other evidence at a remote cabin on the Winnebago Indian Reservation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">According to court documents, Decorah called Winnebago police on May 16, 2020, to report the vehicle the couple and their infant son were using was stuck in mud in a remote area of the reservation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Officers found the vehicle but could not locate Decorah, Rooney or the baby. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">The officers later noticed a fire in an outhouse of a remote cabin. Rooney was in the cabin naked without clothes. The baby was with him, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-86 Component-p-0-2-77\">Blood was seen in the cabin and a skull later identified as Decorah\u2019s was found in the fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-department-of-justice-fires-f1cc41eb55bca0c8d1c2552046978178\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A Winnebago man was sentenced Friday to 25 years in federal prison for killing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cj-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29610,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions\/29610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}