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Sentencing set in murder of woman found in Kansas creek bed

HUTCHINSON -A Kansas woman who pled guilty in June 3, to intentional second-degree murder is scheduled for sentencing on Friday.

Jamie Hatfield, 27, is charged in the strangulation death of 38-year-old Mary Ann Arnett in June of 2015.

Hatfield enter the plea to the single count. The District Attorney dismissed all other charges.

Arnett’s body was found in a dry creek bed near Nickerson.

An autopsy showed she had been strangled by a cell phone cord and extension cord.

Prosecutors say Hatfield and Jonathan Perser-Wilson were involved in Arnett’s death.

Perser­Wilson was shot and killed by police during a confrontation the day after Arnett’s body was found.

Arnett and Hatfield had previously dated but when Arnett’s body was found, Hatfield was in a relationship with Wilson.

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