On This Date in Minnesota History: July 26

July 26, 2013 – On this date, in front of a full St. Louis County courtroom, Joseph John Couture testified that he beat and stabbed Trina Louise Langenbrunner to death as she was hitchhiking near Brookston Road in the early morning of Sept. 3, 2000.

“Couture, 42, of Cloquet pleaded guilty to intentional second-degree murder, first-degree aiding and abetting aggravated witness tampering, and aiding and abetting first-degree arson.

“Judge Dale Harris accepted the plea agreement reached between the defendant and the St. Louis County Attorney’s Office and immediately sentenced Couture to nearly 40 years in prison.”

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Joseph John Couture 

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