By the Associated Press and KFDI News:
Authorities say a central Kansas man accused in a triple murder avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to four felonies.
Harvey County Attorney David Yoder said Tuesday that 39-year-old Jereme Nelson agreed on Jan. 10 to plead guilty in the October 2016 deaths of two men and a woman in rural Moundridge. Nelson had been charged with capital murder.
The plea deal calls for a sentence of nearly 40 years.
Yoder says the deaths resulted from a drug deal that went bad. Nelson’s girlfriend, 35-year-old Myrta Rangel, pleaded guilty in July 2018 to federal firearms charges after admitting she gave a gun to Nelson before he went to the victims’ home.
The bodies of 33-year-old Travis Street, 37-year-old Angela Graevs and 52-year-old Richard Prouty were found at a rural home. Nelson and Rangel were arrested in Mexico in early 2017 and returned to Harvey County to face charges.
