Deceased Minneapolis Woman Found In Crashed Car Was Murdered: Police

OLMSTED COUNTY, MN — A woman found dead in a crashed vehicle in southern Minnesota was killed in Minneapolis, according to authorities.

On Saturday at about 7 a.m., the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office responded to a single-car crash on Interstate 90 eastbound near the Highway 42 exit.

The driver of the vehicle, identified as Margot Lewis, 32, was outside the vehicle and being tended to by a passerby, according to authorities.

A woman's body was then discovered in the back seat, investigators said.

"The condition of the deceased was suspicious, and it was immediately apparent that the death was not a result of the motor vehicle accident," the sheriff's office said.

The identity of the deceased will be released after the family is notified. The woman was 35 years old, authorities said.

The Minneapolis Police Department was notified of the incident when stage agents requested officers do a welfare check at the deceased’s address in the 700 block of 16th Street East at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

At about 8 p.m., stage agents, members of the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, and Minneapolis Police investigators executed a search warrant at the address. "A scene indicating violence was located inside of the address," police said.

A Minneapolis police report filed Saturday night classified the death as a case of murder by knife or other "cutting instrument," the Star Tribune reported.

Meanwhile, Lewis was hospitalized and then medically cleared.

Lewis was then transported to the county jail and booked on a charge of interference with a dead body. She is expected to make an appearance in court on Tuesday.