After 20 years of harassing an FBI special agent -- via phone calls, letters, text messages and even words scratched onto jail-cell walls -- the odd case of Kim Rolene Hutterer closed Thursday with a private conversation in a St. Paul courtroom.
Hutterer, of New Prague, pleaded guilty to sending threatening communications and threatening mail. Then U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson agreed to clear the room while the 47-year-old woman and the agent she'd stalked since he arrested her in 1991 could have a "quiet" talk out of public view.
Special Agent Dean Scheidler left the courtroom carrying a sheet of paper with handwritten notes on it. What he may have said, however, he kept to himself. Hutterer's attorney, Caroline Durham, also declined to comment.
For two decades, Hutterer has said plenty. It began when she carved the message: "Death to Scheidler" on her jail wall after Scheidler arrested her in August 1991 for threatening to bomb a Northwest Airlines flight.
In the years since, she reportedly waged a campaign to stalk, harass and threaten Scheidler and his family. Along the way, she also sent threats to other federal officials -- including Vice President Joe Biden, for which she was indicted. That charge was dropped Thursday when Hutterer pleaded guilty to two of the four charges against her.
Court papers and police reports show that she has even made threatening phone calls and sent threatening letters from jail. According to papers filed by the U.S. attorney's office, Hutterer carved threats to Scheidler and others into a bench in a holding cell of the federal courthouse in St. Paul on March 31 -- the day she appeared on charges for threatening Scheidler previously.
She mailed an 11-page letter in October from the Carver County jail that included five pages of drawings and more threats to Scheidler.
Among the passages were: "One thing is for sure, I will never give up going after FBI Special Agent Dean Scheidler. ... No one can stop me until I am dead."
