Kore Bommeli, convicted in a Wisconsin ricin plot, took a no-contest plea in her Oklahoma roommate's death.

A no-contest plea is a conviction without an admission. Bommeli did not say she killed Talina Galloway; she took a manslaughter deal rather than face a jury on first-degree murder, and the Wisconsin attempted-homicide counts came from a jury verdict. Either way she is in prison for decades, and the Oklahoma file is closed without a trial.

"She's a killer," an Oklahoma prosecutor told NBC News of Bommeli in a report published Oct. 9, 2026, and updated Oct. 10. NBC News reported she was charged in two deadly plots in two states: the killing of her roommate in Oklahoma six years ago and the attempted poisoning of her neighbors in Wisconsin in 2014.

KOKH FOX 25 reported that on April 17, 2020, Bommeli reported Galloway missing and told investigators Galloway had left their home after testing positive for COVID-19 and being told by her doctor to quarantine. Investigators found Galloway had never been screened at any hospital and had no contact with her doctor. Law&Crime reported that in January 2021 Polk County, Arkansas, deputies acting on a tip about a freezer in the woods near Mena found what appeared to be dismembered human remains, later confirmed as Galloway's. The Wagoner County Sheriff's Office said at the time that Bommeli gave inconsistent statements and "knew much more than she was sharing with investigators."

The Oklahoma investigation pointed detectives to Wisconsin. Law&Crime reported that on June 27, 2025, a Dane County jury convicted her of two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, after prosecutors said she spread ricin around her neighbors' home in the spring of 2014 while they were on vacation. "No one is putting ricin in someone's bed, in their sock drawer, in their office – if you're not trying to kill them," Assistant Dane County District Attorney Jack Schneider said, according to WKOW. NBC News reported she is serving 35 years in Wisconsin in that case.

News On 6 reported that just before jury selection in Wagoner County, prosecutors reduced the first-degree murder charge to first-degree manslaughter, and Bommeli pleaded no contest to that count, desecration of a human corpse, and possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction. News On 6 reported terms of 28 years for manslaughter, seven consecutive years for desecration, and five concurrent years on the gun count, for a total of 35 years, to be served in Wisconsin. NBC News reported that the 28-year and five-year terms run concurrently with her Wisconsin sentence and that the seven-year desecration term runs consecutively to it. The two accounts describe the stacking differently, and the counts are the same. District Attorney Jack Thorp told KJRH, "We provided them with a plea offer after we had checked with the family to make sure that that's something that they were good with; they were." Bommeli's co-counsel, Bryan Cannonie, told KJRH, "Kore is steadfast in her claim that she did not do this."

A no-contest plea lets a court enter a conviction without the defendant admitting the facts. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Bommeli's Wisconsin verdict and her Oklahoma plea are the two convictions that now stand against her.