Minnesota woman admits to stabbing friend in drug haze

A northern Minnesota woman pleaded guilty in Itasca County Monday to stabbing a man during a domestic dispute following a day of drug use and drinking earlier this month.

Rae Lynn Butzbach, 49, of Keewatin pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault resulting in substantial bodily harm. Authorities had also charged her with assault in the first degree and a second count of assault in the second degree. Those two charges were dropped in exchange to the guilty plea on the one count.

Under the terms of the plea agreement -- filed Tuesday, Aug. 21, but a judge must approve it -- Butzbach would be on supervised probation for 10 years. Conditions of probation include serving 180 days in jail, paying a $1,085 fine, completing and following the recommendations of a chemical dependency evaluation, taking prescribed medications in the proper amounts, and completing and following the recommendations of a psychological or diagnostic evaluation. Her use of drugs and alcohol would also be restricted and monitored with spot-checks.

Butzbach is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 15.

According to the criminal complaint, officers were called to a medical situation at 401 N. Fifth St. in Keewatin about 7:15 a.m. on Aug. 8. The first officer to arrive was met by Ronald Wayne Carlisle, 49, of Jacobson, who staggered to the officer's car with stab wounds in his chest and left arm. The officer said Carlisle told him "Rae Lynn went nuts and stabbed him."

Carlisle told

Butzbach told officers at the scene that she and Carlisle had gotten into an argument and had been pushing each other around, the complaint said.

"She stated that she had stabbed R.W.C. because he had a knife first," the complaint said.

While alone in the back of a squad car, Butzbach was recorded talking on her cellphone.

"I don't know, he might be dead; I stabbed him. Goodbye," she told one caller, the complaint said.

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Minnesota woman admits to stabbing friend in drug haze