Lois Riess won’t return to Minnesota until her case in Florida ends. And then I felt bad for thinking that way because my dad’s dead. In a portion of the interview released ahead of time but not aired, the son went on to say, “I just felt bad for her. I felt like she was alone and desperate.” “Gambling’s a terrible thing, where it can suck people in and destroy lives,” he said.Īs the law enforcement dragnet widened, Riess recalled that “I just felt really bad for my mom. She had a pretrial detention hearing Thursday in Lee County and has another hearing scheduled for May 29, when she will have an opportunity to enter a plea.īraden Riess said her gambling addiction was a monumental struggle for her. Riess remains jailed without bond in Florida on charges of second-degree murder, grand theft and identify theft.
“She was caring always put herself second and us kids first.” I feel like I’m going wake up, and it’s going to be back to normal, but it’s not,” he said. Riess described the unfolding horror of the news that his father had been killed and his mother was a suspect. Nobody ever suspected anything like this. “She literally snapped,” 31-year-old Braden Riess said. Authorities dubbed her “Losing Streak Lois” because of her trail of casino gambling. She went to Florida, where law enforcement says she befriended a 59-year-old look-alike, Pamela Hutchinson, shot her and then stole her identity before being captured on South Padre Island, Texas, on April 19. Lois Riess, 56, is accused of fatally shooting her 54-year-old husband, David, on their farm property south of Blooming Prairie in March and fleeing in the family sport-utility vehicle.
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