After Seven Years, St. Cloud Man Convicted of First-Degree Murder

(KNSI) – A St. Cloud man accused of strangling a woman to death in his basement in 2018 had been found guilty.

In September of that year, Daniel Walter Kenning walked into the St. Cloud Police Department and confessed that he killed Jennifer Lee Moy with the intention of proving that he could bring her back from the dead.

Kenning was found incompetent to stand trial and was committed to a mental health facility ever since. A new mental competency hearing in December finally gave prosecutors the green light to proceed with the case. It was scheduled for March, but the defense team introduced last-minute witnesses and handed over reports that had not been seen by the other side, which led to another delay.

Stearns County finally got to take the case before a jury over the past several weeks.

Kenning will be held without bond in the Stearns County Jail until sentencing. The hearing is scheduled for October 2nd. A first-degree murder conviction is an automatic sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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