A woman who was part of a multi-state 'Bonnie and Clyde' crime spree with her boyfriend has pleaded guilty in a 2008 shooting death at a highway rest stop.
Dana K. Tutor, 42, pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery in the September 8, 2008 death of trucker Valentin Kirilchuk, 39, in Platte County, Missouri.
The rest-stop slaying just north of Kansas City was part of a multi-state crime spree perpetrated by John Matthew Hughes, 41, then Tutor's boyfriend. The couple talked of getting 'Bonnie and Clyde' tattoos to commemorate the notorious outlaw couple, said prosecutors.
Tutor 'wanted to be like Bonnie and Clyde, and she was. Just like Bonnie and Clyde, she and her boyfriend John Hughes are robbers and murderers,' said prosecutor Eric Zahnd, the Kansas City Star reported.
Dana K. Tutor, 42, pleaded guilty on Monday to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery in a 2008 murder committed with her boyfriend John Matthew Hughes, 41
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ShareHughes previously pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and robbery in Kirilchuk's death.
The crooked couple were making their way west after Hughes had committed another murder, days earlier, in Zanesville, Ohio, where he stabbed 53-year-old David E. Durben to death.
Durben was found dead on September 2, 2008. Hughes pleaded guilty to theft and murder in his slaying.
Prosecutors said a gun that Hughes stole from Durben, a long-haul truck driver, was used in the murder of Kirilchuk.
The second murder took place at the northbound rest stop on Interstate 29 between Camden Point and Dearborn.
The murder of Kirilchuk took place at this northbound rest stop on Interstate 29
Tutor went up to the cab of Kirilchuk's truck and told him she needed $100. Prosecutors said her fingerprint on the passenger side window of his truck.
Kirilchuck, a Ukrainian immigrant, followed Tutor to the rest area's main building, where Hughes was pretending to be talking on a pay phone, prosecutors said.
Then, Hughes forced the trucker into the men's restroom with a 9mm handgun, where a struggle ensued and Hughes shot the man in the head, said prosecutors.
Hughes, a Mississippi native, was later arrested in Nebraska. He is serving life in prison for the Ohio murder and has said he has committed 'at least' a dozen other murders that he has not been charged with.
'I feel that I'm the antichrist,' Hughes explained in an interview with KMBC, explaining that he wanted the death penalty.
The murder in Missouri was a way for him to regain 'control' over his girlfriend Tutor and two other passengers, another couple, who were in the car, he said in the interview.
Tutor faces up to 20 years in prison under the terms of her plea deal.
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