Man pleads guilty to helping murder suspect hide corpses in Wisconsin

A St. Paul man pleaded guilty to aiding an offender after four bodies were found in a Wisconsin corn field last year, according to documents filed in Ramsey County Court.

Darren L. Osborne, 56, had pleaded not guilty to one count of aiding an offender in July, but amended his plea to guilty on Tuesday. Court documents show he also uses McWright as an alternate last name.

Wisconsin court records show that Osborne faces four counts of hiding a corpse in Dunn County.

Osborne’s son, 39-year-old Antoine Darnique Suggs, faces four counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Jasmine Christine Sturm, Matthew Isiah Pettus, Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley and Loyace Foreman III. They were found dead inside a Mercedes-Benz SUV by a farmer, according to a criminal complaint.

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Suggs turned himself in to police in Gilbert, Arizona after it was determined that he was wanted for questioning.

The St. Paul Police Department said investigators have determined that the murders happened in the area near the White Squirrel on West Seventh Street in St. Paul sometime shortly after 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 12, 2021. All victims had suffered gunshot wounds to the head.

The complaint details refers to surveillance footage that shows Suggs driving the Mercedes-Benz SUV and Osborne following him in a separate vehicle to Wisconsin.

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 that Suggs then told him he had “snapped” and shot the victims on West Seventh.

Osborne’s sentencing date is set for the morning of Dec. 9, 2022 in Ramsey County Court.