Wisconsin man given maximum sentence in dismemberment case

SUPERIOR, Wis. - The Superior man convicted of murdering Ricky Balsimo Jr., 34, of St. Paul, on Father's Day 2021 was sentenced in Douglas County Circuit Court on Tuesday, March 5, to an additional 7 1/2 years imprisonment for dismembering Balsimo's body.

Jacob Colt Johnson, 38, is serving a 40-year prison sentence in Minnesota for the shooting death of Balsimo, a friend he'd known since they were young. He pleaded no contest in Douglas County Circuit Court on Jan. 3 to one count of being a party to mutilating a corpse.

After the killing, Johnson drove the body to a camper in rural Douglas County, where the dismemberment took place. Balsimo's body was placed in buckets and totes with cement and dumped off a boat into Lake Superior in Grand Portage.

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