Mystery grows over black SUV in cornfield with 4 bodies inside, Wisconsin cops say

UPDATE: The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office has two suspects in the quadruple homicide case: Darren Lee McWright (Osborne), 56, who is in custody in Wisconsin; and Antoine Darnique Suggs, 38, who surrendered to police Sept. 17 in Gilbert, Arizona. The original story is below.

A cornfield in Wisconsin has become the setting of a grisly homicide investigation that bears more than a slight resemblance to a horror movie.

Four bodies were found in a “black SUV that was driven into a standing cornfield off of a rural road” and then abandoned, according to the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office.

The discovery was made Sunday afternoon in Sheridan in northern Dunn County, officials said in a Facebook post.

All four people in the SUV — two men and two women — died of gunshot wounds, officials said. They had been dead less than 24 hours.

The motive remains a mystery, and the investigation has yet to find anything linking the four people to the community, officials said at a Tuesday press conferece.

A farmer found the SUV, and a 911 call was made shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday, reporting “people in a vehicle that were not moving,” officials said.

Few details have been released, but among the first steps the department took was to ask if anyone in the area saw someone “going to residence(s) to ask for a ride early Sunday morning or late Saturday night.”

It is suspected the black SUV, which had Minnesota plates, may have been traveling with “a second dark colored SUV,” authorities said.

The four victims have been identified as: Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30; Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26; Loyace Foreman, 35, and Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30, officials said. Flug-Presley is from Stillwater, Minnesota, and the other three are from Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Two of the four were a brother and sister, and “one was a boyfriend of one of the other victims,” officials said.

“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of these victims,” Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said Tuesday.

“I wish we could release more details, but we have to balance the public’s desire to know the details with running the risk of harming our investigation and losing evidence for building a good homicide case.”

The department says it believes the community is not in danger at this time, because “the suspect or suspects left the area after abandoning the SUV in the cornfield.”

That confidence is not shared by some living nearby, however. Commenters on the sheriff’s office Facebook page suggest people are frightened and want more details.

“This kind of stuff doesn’t happen around here,” Robin West wrote.

“Wonder if the crime was committed elsewhere and they drove the bodies all way over here,” Ryan Veith posted.

“I can’t imagine walking up to a car and finding 4 bodies. That’s got to be horrible,” Larry Joyner said. “What is the insane reason behind all of this?“

This story was originally published September 14, 2021 at 11:35 AM with the headline "Mystery grows over black SUV in cornfield with 4 bodies inside, Wisconsin cops say."