{"id":577,"date":"2025-10-15T02:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/577\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:32:09","slug":"erie-co-woman-to-serve-decades-long-sentence-for-murder-dismemberment-of-summit-twp-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/577\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Co. woman to serve decades long sentence for murder, dismemberment of Summit Twp. man"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, an Erie County judge issued a punishment for a woman accused of murdering a man in Summit Township more than two years ago.<\/p>\n

Marisa Rodriguez, 37, was charged with criminal homicide, abuse of corpse and other charges in the death of 66-year-old Michael Maisner, whose remains were found in a burn pit at his residence on Crestview Drive in April 2023.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\tWoman charged with murdering PA man ruled mentally competent to face trial\t<\/a><\/p>\n

According to facts listed by the judge during the sentencing, Rodriguez shot Maisner in the head before dismembering his body with a chainsaw and burning it in a fire pit \u2013 something the judge said was the \u201cworst series of facts\u201d he\u2019s read in a courtroom.<\/p>\n

Maisner\u2019s family reported to police that they found Rodriguez in the attic of Maisner\u2019s home, surrounded by strange writing, before she fled to New York in his car, where she was later found and taken into custody.<\/p>\n

In August, Rodriguez pled guilty to ten charges, including third-degree murder, and on Monday, was sentenced to 40 to 80 years in prison.<\/p>\n

Over a dozen of Maisner\u2019s friends and family sat in the courtroom for the sentencing, and his niece said the sentence was both \u201cfair, but not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the judge\u2019s ruling was fair, but to us as a family, she should have life. I know that\u2019s not how the legal system works, but we\u2019re never going to get him back,\u201d said Valerie Korynoski, Michael Maisner\u2019s niece.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez was originally ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial before that ruling was reversed last year.<\/p>\n

The judge stated the 40-to-80-year punishment was the absolute maximum under law, and that Rodriguez must also undergo a mental health evaluation.<\/p>\n

Although Rodriguez will spend at least four decades behind bars, Korynoski and other family members said they will never have closure. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\tErie man found guilty on all charges for 2023 homicide\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not a piece of him. We don\u2019t have anything to bury him in. She even took his personal items and destroyed them, threw them out, sent them to the landfill like she did with him,\u201d said Korynoski.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, the defense told the judge Rodriguez believed she had been sexually assaulted by Meisner, with her saying he \u201cwas aggressive\u201d toward her.<\/p>\n

Maisner\u2019s family disputes that claim, saying he was a man who went out of his way to help anybody he could.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Uncle Mike, he was loving. He took her off the streets, he gave her a home, he bought her expensive things, and as far as her trying to slander him while we\u2019re there, that was wrong, that was not him,\u201d said Korynoski.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, an Erie County judge issued a punishment for a woman accused of murdering a man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[791,792,797,449,786,798,784,785,793,136,142,138,137,794,790,457,780,47,781,783,796,787,788,789,220,782,795],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-abuse-of-corpse","tag-burn-pit","tag-chainsaw","tag-court","tag-courtroom","tag-crestview-drive","tag-criminal","tag-criminal-homicide","tag-dismemberment","tag-erie","tag-erie-county","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-guilty","tag-hearing","tag-homicide","tag-marisa-rodriguez","tag-mental-health","tag-michael-maisner","tag-murder","tag-prison","tag-punishment","tag-sentence","tag-sentencing","tag-shooting","tag-summit-township","tag-third-degree-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}