uh middle school friends who want to remain anonymous i have real problems revealing anonymous information when there's nothing really to back it up and if people aren't willing to stand up and put their name behind it frankly i'm not going to talk about it either and frankly it's rather useless so just remember ladies and gentlemen anybody can say anything it's another thing to actually get up and say it and mean it and be able to back it up in court all right next on the docket if the dead guy is a jerk does it justify a reduced sentence hmm the answer is possibly okay now when you defend somebody on a homicide case there's a couple of things that you can do obviously a my client didn't do it b if my client did it it was in self-defense c the dead guy deserved killing obviously a couple options there alright but the dead guy deserved killing isn't an actual defense but sometimes if you can make the dead guy seem like well he deserved killing it's really a form of mitigation well that's what happened uh last week when a minnesota woman and her son uh pled guilty connie herbst NUMBER_TOKEN pled guilty last week to helping her son austin james herps NUMBER_TOKEN get rid of her slain allegedly abusive husband's body several years ago the charge is aiding an offender after the fact in the death of NUMBER_TOKEN year old gary albert herb's death now connie hertz son in june got a relatively merciful punishment after pleading guilty to second-degree intentional murder he got seven and three-quarter years to be served in prison four and three-quarter years to be served on a probationary sentence for a total of NUMBER_TOKEN years this was far less than the state sentencing guidelines called for which was NUMBER_TOKEN years NUMBER_TOKEN and three-quarters years now according to the criminal complaint gary hertz disappeared in july of NUMBER_TOKEN. austin herps the son finally reported his father missing in march of NUMBER_TOKEN saying that the missing man came home packed up some clothing took five thousand dollars and left in a gray honda driven by an unknown person good story gary herbst turned up dead on december NUMBER_TOKENrd of NUMBER_TOKEN in barron county wisconsin a family's dog found hurt's skull and brought it to the property owner's driveway the residents obviously reported this to the sheriff deputies who found the rest of the skeletonized remains nearby and there appeared to be a bullet hole in the top of the skull according to the police reports now the dna doe project and we've helped them a little bit in the past helped deputies identify the remains and those belonging to mr herps investigators interviewed connie and austin the son said that he had not seen his father since the disappearance the neighbors described gary as a belligerent cursing constantly at his wife and son and apparently calling the police over for the smallest of complaints now the residents of the herps family former home also told investigators they found an unusual stain on the basement concrete floor while they were remodeling investigators determined that that stain well it was blood in further talks austin hertz told investigators that his father was verbally and physically abusive towards his mother and in NUMBER_TOKEN
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