RAPID CITY, S.D. – A sentencing hearing for a murder conviction revealed grizzly details in an October 2020 case.
Jonnie Fineran, Allen, SD, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison June 30, 2022 after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
According to the factual basis statement in the case, 20-year-old Jonnie Fineran, along with a juvenile identified in court only as TSB, stabbed Thomas Sitting Bear more than 60 times back in July of 2020.
The two had first met two years earlier in a mental health facility.
An FBI agent testified at the sentencing, saying that the two had previously discussed an interest in cannibalism. However he testified there was no proof any cannibalistic acts were performed at the particular scene of the crime.
Along with the prison sentence, Fineran will serve five years of supervised release. The family of Sitting Bear did not seek restitution
