Murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind

Also known as: Savanna Greywind

Active: 2017–2017
Region: Fargo, North Dakota, USA
State: ND
Kind: Single
Status: Pleaded guilty
Victims: 1

Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, 22, a member of the Spirit Lake Nation who was eight months pregnant, disappeared from her apartment in north Fargo on August 19, 2017. Her body was found in the Red River about eight days later; her newborn daughter, taken from her, survived and was found in the apartment of a neighbor, Brooke Crews. Crews pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole. Her boyfriend, William Hoehn, was acquitted of conspiracy to commit murder but pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and was resentenced to 20 years in 2019. Her death led to Savanna's Act (2020), a federal law on missing and murdered Native Americans.

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Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, 22 · August 19, 2017
A member of the Spirit Lake Nation whose family also has ties to the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa; Savanna's Act is named for her.

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August 2017
Red River near Fargo (Recovery site, approximate area)
Her body was found in the Red River about eight days after she disappeared.
August 19, 2017
Apartment building, north Fargo (Crime scene, approximate area)
Savanna disappeared from her north Fargo apartment. Her baby was later found alive in a neighbor's apartment.
September 2018
Cass County Courthouse, Fargo (Court / trial)
Crews pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole. A jury acquitted Hoehn of conspiracy to commit murder in September 2018; he was sentenced in October 2018 and resentenced to 20 years in October 2019 in Cass County District Court.

Murder of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind

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