Wisconsin jury finds man guilty of four counts of murder in 2021 for hiding body

A St. Paul man accused of helping hide the bodies of four people in a western Wisconsin cornfield in 2021 has been found guilty of all charges against him in Dunn County.

Court records show a jury found 59-year-old Darren Lee Osborne guilty of four counts of concealing a body as an accessory to a crime. Sentencing in this case is scheduled for the morning of December 13th.

He and his son Antoine Darnique Suggs were charged in the deaths of 30-year-old Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley of Stillwater; 26-year-old Matthew Isiah Pettus of St. Paul; 35-year-old Loyace Foreman III of St. Paul; and 30-year-old Jasmine Christine Sturm of St. Paul. Prosecutors say Suggs shot the victims in St. Paul on the morning of September 12, 2021, and their bodies were later found in an abandoned black Mercedes-Benz in the city of Sheridan.

Cell phone data from that night led investigators to believe he killed the victims near the white squirrel between 3:30 and 3:48 a.m. They all suffered gunshot wounds to the head.

From there, Suggs met his father, 56-year-old Darren Osborne, who traveled to Wisconsin with Suggs in a separate vehicle. A farmer discovered the SUV containing the victims on his property later that afternoon.

Osborne told police he didn't know there were bodies in the SUV Suggs was driving until he heard about the incident on the news, but Suggs then told him he “snatched” the victims on West Seventh. and shot.

As previously reported by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, Osborne was sentenced to five years in prison in December 2022 on charges filed in Ramsey County for the same crime. He pleaded guilty in one case to aiding an offender as an accomplice as part of a deal in which the state agreed to a moderate sentence, and dismissed another case in which he was charged with third-degree assault in May 2021.

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