Kayleene Greniger and Joseph Thoreson
A Grand Rapids woman today pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the beating, stabbing and beheading of a Hibbing man last June and agreed to testify against another defendant in the case. An Itasca County grand jury previously indicted 23-year-old Kayleene Greniger and 36-year-old Joseph Thoreson in the death of 20-year-old David Haiman. Prosecutors say Haiman was assaulted by both defendants and then executed by Thoresen in retaliation for an alleged sexual assault of Greniger. She faces up to 30 years in prison. Thoreson awaits trial and, if convicted faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.