A Bland woman jailed for more than three years on a first-degree murder charge pleaded guilty July 6 to a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter in the November 2018 shooting death of her step-father.

Brooke A. Buddemeyer was sentenced by Presiding Circuit Judge Craig E. Hellmann to 12 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections and will be credited for time served in the Crawford County Jail in Steelville. She had been jailed there since her arrested in northern Florida where she and her accomplice, Aaron M. Lewis, had fled following the shooting of Jessie Robbins on Nov. 25, 2018, in a mobile home park in Bland.

Lewis, who also remains in custody at Crawford County, was in Hellmann’s court on Friday in Hermann. He is still scheduled to go to trial before a Gasconade County jury the first week of October of 2023.

Buddemeyer had been scheduled to stand trial July 5-8. Her murder charge had been upgraded from second to first degree after she and Lewis fled the state. The voluntary manslaughter charge is a class B felony.