Photo-James Winkenwader/Credit: Marshall Co Sheriff's Office

 

(KMZA)--A Waterville man convicted in the 2024 murder of a Blue Rapids man has learned his fate.  

Marshall County Attorney Brad Lippert said James Winkenwader was sentenced last week in Marshall County District Court to 20 years and five months in prison on an amended charge of second-degree murder, along with charges of aggravated assault and possession of methamphetamine.  

He pleaded no contest in October to the charges in three separate cases.  

In exchange for the plea, a fourth case was dismissed.  

Winkenwader had originally been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting  death of 36-year-old Camoran Shoptese on July 4th, 2024.  

Authorities later discovered his dismembered body at a farm near Waterville.