Jury Trial Scheduled for Eric Reinbold, Suspect Who Fled Last Summer in Murder Case

PENNINGTON COUNTY, MN (trfnews.i234.me) A jury trial date of October 22, 2022 has now been scheduled for Eric Reinbold of rural Oklee, Minnesota. He’s charged with stabbing to death his wife.
after several rescheduling dates and court documents a jury trial for eric reinbold of rural oakley minnesota is now scheduled for october 22nd of this year he remains in jail charged with stabbing to death his wife lacet back on july 9th of 2021 and then hiding from law enforcement for nearly a month before being captured in august for background and all this uh here are stories from august 2nd and 4th of 2021 when reinbold was formally charged and then captured two days later two charges of murder have now been filed against eric reinbolt in connection with the murder of his wife here at their farmstead northeast of oakley on july 9th reinbold has been charged with murder in the second degree intentional murder and murder in the second degree a warning the criminal complaint contains graphic details reading from it quote on july 9th 2021 at around 9 15 a.m emts responded to 105 83 340th avenue southeast in oakley pennington county minnesota on a report of an unresponsive female when they reached the driveway the emt’s a counter encountered a boy on a bike who said his mom was laying on the ground and he was going to get his stepdad later identified as defendant eric reinbold from his camper down the road the emts continued driving down the driveway and saw another boy standing outside the residence one emt saw an adult female later identified as lr lossette reinbold a lying on the ground near a vehicle an emt noticed dirt on lr’s face and flies on her the emt’s radio that they were on scene and requested law enforcement an emt noticed a puncture wound on her neck near her jaw blood a cell phone wedged under a tire and lr’s sandals were off and a little way from her body another emt spoke to the boy at the residence who said he did not know what happened he last saw his mother lr the night before and he knew she was going to work around 8 am that morning in a subsequent interview the boy said he woke up around 8 or 8 30 a.m that morning and saw that his mother’s vehicle was still there he looked outside and saw his mother laying by the vehicle his mother’s face and hands had blood on them one of them called their grandfather who in turn called 9-1-1 sometime after that the boy’s brother left to go to the defendant’s camper and then the ambulance arrived law enforcement officers arrived and learned that three children including the boy that rode down from the residence on his bike were also at the defendant’s camper which is located about a half mile from the residence officers found three children inside the camper but the defendant was not there subsequent interviews of the two children who spent the night in the camper with the defendant revealed that when they woke up in the morning of july 9th the defendant was gone one child reported waking up around six or seven a.m to go to the bathroom and the defendant was gone the other child reported that she lost last saw the defendant at 9 or 10 p.m the night before neither child knew where the defendant went or his current location one of the children reported last seen their mother lr crying and that the defendant thought her mother was cheating on him and made him mad law enforcement officers found the defendant’s phone obtained a search warrant and downloaded its continents contents exchanges between lr and the defendant reinbold revealed that tension in their relationship at times of attempts of trying to reconcile at other times going back to march of 2021 exchanges between the defendant and lr from june 25th to july 7th of 2021 shows the defendant accusing lr of being unfaithful demanding sex from her and fighting over finances exchanges between the defendant and lr on july 8 2021 again revealed the defendant questioning whether lr was being faithful to him and with lr responding that it is all in his head the defendant continues uh pressuring lr for sex with lr resisting because to their children and her children from a previous relationship were currently staying at the residence during this exchange the defendant wrote i’m getting worked up because you appear to be lying to me in various ways and lr denied lying to him lr pointed out that his constant texting was not healthy for a marriage lr reminded the defendant that he punched and choked her in 2015. the defendant continued to pressure lr about sex including clarifying ownership over a part of lr’s body during the exchange lr writes i’ve been waiting to hear why you kicked kicked me punched me and choked me later in the exchange the defendant wanted lr to quit her job which she refused to do lr wrote that she cried on the drive home and could not go inside the house until she stopped crying so the kids would not see her the defendant then asked her if she called the police and she and told her to not threaten him with probation the defendant also wrote but divorcing our sex life is unacceptable lr informed the defendant that the kids were going to have supper and she was going to bed the defendant continued to pressure her for sex the defendant later uh came to take two of the children with them with him back to the camper there were no more exchanges between the defendant and lr after that law enforcement officers spoke to one of lr’s friends who reported that lr sent the friend and uh friend sister of video via messenger at 6 36 a.m on july 9th the friend said that she sent lr a what’s up message at 7 26 that morning but lr never opened the message the friend knew that lr starts work at 8 am law enforcement officers later confirmed that she was scheduled to start work at 8 am in thief river falls the distance between the residents in thief river falls is about 23 miles an autopsy conducted on july 10th revealed that lr lissette reinbold suffered multiple sharp force injuries to her neck torso and upper extremities the medical examiner provisionally determined cause of death to be a sussignation due to multiple sharp force injuries due to assault and the manner of death to be homicide the defendant was not located on the property and at the time of filing of this complaint a manhunt is underway because of a federal warrant for violating his conditions of supervision the defendant is under a supervision under federal supervision for a december 2018 conviction for possession of unregistered destructive devices where he stashed pipe bombs on family property and law enforcement officers later found materials associated with those pipe bombs at the defendant’s residence in october and november of 2017. the defendant absconded at the time at the time his residence was searched for as part of the investigation and he was arrested sometime later in kansas with cash and camping equipment the defendant was convicted sent to prison and was released to be under supervision for three years on june 11 2015 penned in county sheriff’s deputies responded to a domestic situation at the same address when the deputy arrived a defendant was hiding in the nearby woods and would not agree to come out if he had to put his weapon down a witness to the domestic situation explained seeing lr’s vehicle parked in the defendant’s uh defendant’s part against it the witness saw lr try to back away when the defendant jumped into his pickup and rammed lr’s vehicle three or four times the witness saw lr then drive away as the witness was attempting to call 911 subsequent interview with lr revealed that she attempted to leave with two children and the defendant blocked her vehicle yelling at her to get back inside the house lr saw the defendant possessed a black handgun when she attempted to back up the defendant’s pickup the defendant uh repeatedly rammed her vehicle with the children inside she was able to escape a short time later the defendant was not apprehended that night and a warrant was issued for his arrest charging him with three separate counts of felony second-degree assault on september 30th 2016 the defendant pled guilty to one count of second-degree assault and an amended count of endangerment of child by fire firearm he was placed on probation for up to five years the defendant subsequently violated his probation within a year by possessing pipe bombs and materials to pipe bombs leaving the state arrested in kansas without his agent agent’s permission possessing ammunition and possessing materials on how to make nitric glycerin gunpowder and how to conduct roadside bombings a nationwide arrest warrant is requested due to the defendant’s whereabouts being unknown unquote and that was from the criminal complaint and on this uh monday eric reinbold remains at large reinbold was then captured two days later Neil Berg up here northeast of oakley minnesota where murder suspect eric reinbold was captured at 12 30 a.m on this wednesday have a few more details on what led to his capture and how he was able to escape from law enforcement for nearly a month also reaction from folks who live in the area yes very happy he’s caught safety of my family and my kids okay were you kind of worried when he’s on the loose just a little bit we end up putting a gate at the end of our driveway locking our doors at night and basically not doing anything after dark okay did you know eric i didn’t know him i knew his wife a little bit because i um he’s there only about four miles south uh actually west of us were you a little worried when he’s on the loose and glad he’s caught absolutely i mean it was right down the road my kids were scared to go outside um my five-year-old is like mom there’s a guy running around that killed his wife so she was terrified if she heard things in the dark and okay she would wake up screaming at night now these woods are the area reinbold was captured in at 12 30 a.m on this wednesday it’s just across the road from his parents home it’s the same area he was convicted of possessing pipe bombs in a few years ago and released from a prison on probation earlier this year sheriff mitch bernstein says this morning reinbold was spotted on a camera and u.s marshals equipped with night vision equipment dogs air support and assisted by red lake and pennington county deputies moved in and arrested reinbold without incident sheriff bernstein says they found no bunker booby traps or bombs and he says at this point they have no evidence reinbold was assisted by anyone during during his nearly one month on the run so why was he able to hide so long well here’s a closer look at the underbrush in this area you can’t simply walk through it if you’re willing to crawl in and lie down it appears to be quite easy to conceal yourself from someone who may be just a few feet away sheriff bernstein says they may take a closer look at the area this fall when the foliage drops off but at this point he says they’re just happy reinbold is in custody and the main point of all this the murder investigation of his wife leset on july 9th can move forward again at this point a jury trial for reinbold has now been scheduled for october 22nd of this year i’m Neil Berg reporting for trfnews.i234.me