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Published: 07:07 GMT, 23 February 2019 | Updated: 07:07 GMT, 23 February 2019
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Ivan Dan Walker, 34, from Stillwater, pleaded guilty Friday in Ramsey County District Court to the second-degree unintentional murder of 39-year-old Shana Branch
A Minnesota man has admitted that he strangled his girlfriend and mother-of-two at her home last summer and then inserted a cocaine-laced straw into her nose to try and make it look as though she died from an overdose.
Ivan Dan Walker, 34, from Stillwater, pleaded guilty Friday in Ramsey County District Court to the second-degree unintentional murder of 39-year-old Shana Hollins.
He also pleaded guilty to the first-degree criminal sexual assault of a teenage house guest who had been sleeping on Branch's couch on the night of the killing in July 2018 according to the Star Tribune.
Hollin's two sons, who were aged 20 and 7 at the time, were at home during the murder with one of them calling 911.
When authorities arrived, they found Hollins in her bed with bodily fluids streaming out of her nose and a plastic straw protruding from it. Hollins was pronounced dead at the scene.
A teen, Hollin's cousin, told investigators she was sleeping on the couch when Walker came downstairs
