Judge OKs Gag Order in Rapid City Contract Killing Case

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — A judge overseeing criminal cases in an alleged Rapid City contract killing has agreed to limit what lawyers and others can say publicly.

The gag order approved by Seventh Circuit Judge Heidi Linngren was requested by one of the attorneys for Jonathon Klinetobe of Sturgis. He's one of three men facing murder and other charges in the May 2015 stabbing death of 22-year-old Jessica Rehfeld, Klinetobe's ex-girlfriend.

Authorities allege Klinetobe hired Rapid City residents David Schneider and Richard Hirth to kill Rehfeld. Her body was found in a remote grave near Rockerville last month.

The three suspects and two other men accused of being accessories all have pleaded not guilty.

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