{"id":75976,"date":"2018-04-20T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=75976"},"modified":"2018-04-20T07:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:18:30","slug":"losing-streak-lois-arrested-in-texas-after-hitting-casino-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/losing-streak-lois-arrested-in-texas-after-hitting-casino-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Murderer \u2018Losing Streak Lois\u2019 Arrested in Texas After Hitting Casino Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lois Riess, the so-called \u201cGambling Granny<\/a>\u201d who became the subject of a nationwide manhunt after she allegedly murdered two people and went on the run, was apprehended Thursday night on South Padre Island close to the Mexican border.<\/p>\n

\"Lois
Lois Riess, aka \u201cLosing Streak Lois,\u201d was captured on Thursday night at the Sea Ranch Restaurant Bar on South Padre Island, Texas, a stone\u2019s throw from the Mexican border. (Image: CBS News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier in the day, authorities had confirmed Riess had been spotted at the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana, on April 8, two days after she allegedly killed and assumed the identity of Pamela Hutchinson.<\/p>\n

But Riess had used her own name and ID to play slots at the casino, where she got lucky, hitting the jackpot for $1,500. It seems winning was uncharacteristic for Riess, though. She was known to authorities as \u201cLosing Streak Lois\u201d in her hometown of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, where two weeks previously she is believed to have shot and killed her husband, David Riess.<\/p>\n

Killed for Her ID<\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to Dodge County Sheriff Scott Rose, Riess has a “gambling problem” and “financial problems.\u201d Investigators believe, after killing her husband on March 23, she cashed over $10,000 in stolen and forged checks from his business.<\/p>\n

She spent the rest of the day gambling at the Diamond Jo Casino in Northwood, Iowa<\/a>, before heading south to Florida.<\/p>\n

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There, at Smokin\u2019 Oyster Brewery in Fort Myers, she met Hutchinson, a stranger whose misfortune to resemble Riess marked her out as a target for murder. Police believe Riess shot Hutchinson dead with the same gun she had used to kill her husband, purely so she could steal her identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“Ms. Hutchinson’s purse was found to be in disarray and all cash, credit cards and identification appeared to be removed,” said Lee County Undersheriff Carmine Marceno in a press statement earlier this week. “Further investigation revealed that Ms. Hutchinson was targeted by the suspect due to the similarities in their appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cool as a Cucumber<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Authorities said Riess was arrested at about 8:25pm at the Sea Ranch Restaurant-bar in South Padre. The restaurant\u2019s manager, Becky Galvan, told the Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0the suspect was sipping a drink alone at the bar, acting \u201cas cool as a cucumber\u201d when US Marshals arrived to arrest her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI promised all along that Lois Riess would end up in a pair of handcuffs,\u201d Marceno said in a statement on Thursday night. \u201cTonight, she sits in a jail cell in Texas. We are working as expeditiously as possible to bring her back to Lee County to face murder charges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lois Riess, the so-called \u201cGambling Granny\u201d who became the subject of a nationwide manhunt after she allegedly murdered two people and went on the run, was apprehended Thursday night on South Padre Island close to the Mexican border. Earlier in the day, authorities had confirmed Riess had been spotted at the Coushatta Casino Resort in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":75982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u2018Losing Streak Lois\u2019 Arrested in Texas After Hitting Casino Jackpot<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gambling granny Lois Riess arrested in Texas close to the Mexican border. 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