Convicted murderer asks North Dakota parole board to release him for deportation

Convicted murderer asks North Dakota parole board to release him for deportation

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Werner Rümmer has an unusual request for the North Dakota Parole Board: He wants to be released from prison and immediately taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pending deportation to Germany. Rümmer is serving a life sentence in the James River Correctional Center in Jamestown for the 1986 murder of Gilbert Fassett, a Devils Lake man whose body was found on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation wit…