GAYLORD, MINN. — The sentence is 30-and-a-half years in prison for a south-central Minnesota man convicted of the September 2022 fatal shooting of a Sibley County farmer.
Forty-eight-year-old Travis Bauer of Winthrop was sentenced Wednesday for the second-degree murder of 79-year-old Dennis Weitzenkamp.
Police found Weitzenkamp dead in his machine shed with a gunshot wound to the back of the head. Investigators say lab tests confirmed the presence of gunshot residue on Bauer’s clothing, hat, and belt.
The criminal complaint says Bauer had helped Weitzenkamp farm his land for many years and would benefit financially from his death.
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