Mark Milk, 51, who faces five counts related to the death of McKenna Wendel, 14, was serving a a life term for manslaughter in 2023 when the former South Dakota governor commuted his sentence.

A South Dakota man whose sentence of life in prison was commuted by former Gov. Kristi Noem is now implicated in the death of his 14-year-old niece.

Two men, including one whose life sentence was commuted by then-South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, have been charged in the death of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in