Downwind accomplice pleads guilty: Christopher Davis says he helped burn and bury body

BEMIDJI -- A St. Paul man charged with aiding an offender in connection with the murder of Rose Downwind pleaded guilty to the charge Tuesday.

Christopher John Davis, 28, told the court that he helped Marchello Cimmarusti, Downwind’s former boyfriend, transport her body to a location west of Bemidji, dig a hole, burn and bury the body, and later send a text message from Downwind’s phone to her mother to make it appear Downwind was alive and in St. Paul.

Cimmarusti, 40, of Bemidji, pleaded guilty in April to one charge of second-degree intentional murder and admitted that he killed Downwind, a 31-year-old mother of five in October. Cimmarusti also said that Davis, as well as Brandon Rossbach, 31, of Bemidji, helped him burn and bury Downwind’s body.

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