A 58-year-old man in Minnesota will spend the remainder of his days behind bars for killing and dismembering his mother after she learned that he was stealing from her, then cutting up her remains and dropping "tote bins" filled with her dismembered body parts in various ditches along a state highway .

Dakota County District Judge Richelle M. Wahi on Tuesday ordered Troy M. Mitteness to serve a life sentence without the possibility for parole for the 2022 slaying of Sandra Viola Mitteness, authorities announced.

According to a news release from the Dakota County Attorney's Office, the sentence was handed down after a jury found Troy Mitteness guilty of first- and second-degree murder earlier this month in connection with the 82-year-old woman's brutal death.

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