Castleton farmer gets 10 years for killing daughter’s boyfriend

Rutland District and Family Courthouse. Photo by Andrew Kutches/VTDigger
A judge sentenced a Castleton farmer to 10 years in prison for fatally shooting his daughter’s boyfriend before burying him in a manure compost pile.Before the sentence was handed down, Stephen Pelletier, 62, stood up in Rutland Superior criminal court Tuesday and faced the friends and family of Michael Wisell, the man police said he killed more than three years ago.
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