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n Monday, 22 Dec 2025, Lyndon Wiggins was handed a life sentence with no possibility of parole for orchestrating the murder of Minneapolis real‑estate agent Monique Baugh on New Year’s Eve 2019. Judge Mark Kappelhoff warned Wiggins that he had shown “no regard for the lives of Baugh or her partner” and called him the “criminal architect” of a “cold, calculated and cruel” scheme that ended with Baugh’s execution‑style shooting and her boyfriend’s attempted murder.

    Wiggins’ sentencing followed a second conviction this year. He had first been found guilty in 2021, but the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned that verdict in 2024 because of faulty jury instructions. In November, a new trial returned convictions for first‑degree premeditated murder and attempted murder, kidnapping to commit great bodily harm, and related offenses. The judge’s remarks underscored the severity of the crime and the lack of remorse.

    The plot began in 2019 when Wiggins, his partner Elsa Segura, and co‑defendants Berry Davis and Cedric Berry lured Baugh to a staged home showing in Maple Grove. She was then forced into a U‑Haul truck, taken to a Minneapolis alley, and shot three times at point‑blank range. Segura pleaded guilty to kidnapping in 2024 and received 20 years; Davis and Berry were each sentenced to life without parole. Wiggins allegedly targeted Baugh because she was dating a rival drug dealer and because of a dispute over a shared rap‑record label.

    The case highlights the seriousness of the crime and the court’s determination that Wiggins’ actions warrant a lifelong prison term.