29-04-2025
Charges: Man kills his mother, sexually assaults another woman the next day
A man killed his mother in Prior Lake last week and then sexually assaulted a woman he did not know the next day in neighboring Burnsville, according to charges.
Aaron Matthew Schlossin, 36, was charged in Scott County District Court on Monday with second-degree murder in connection with Thursday's killing of his 67-year-old mother, Diana Lee Kaiser, at their home in the 4500 block of Colorado Street.
Schlossin was arrested Friday shortly after entering a woman's Burnsville home through a sliding glass door and groping her, according to a Monday criminal complaint in Dakota County District Court charging him with second-degree criminal sexual conduct and first-degree burglary.
Schlossin remained at the Dakota County jail on Tuesday in lieu of $750,000 bail.
According to the criminal complaints:
Kaiser's neighbor asked police to conduct a welfare check on her around 12:20 p.m. Sunday, telling dispatch that he had not seen her for a few days. He said her garbage cans were still near the street and that she was not answering her door.
The neighbor told an officer he last saw Kaiser and Schlossin on Thursday, when Kaiser came out of their home around 8 p.m. Schlossin ingested nitrous oxide from a can, asked for a cigarette and was 'very high and out of it,' the neighbor told police.
He said Schlossin moved into his mother's home a few years ago and drives a red Dodge Dakota pickup, which had not been there since Thursday night.
Officers walked around the outside of the home, looked through a window and saw blood on a bedsheet in a bedroom, window shade, mattress and on the floor. A leg was seen sticking out of the end of the pile of blankets on the floor.
Officers entered the home and found Kaiser dead in the bedroom, with trauma to her head and face.
Bloody paper footprints were on the floor of the home, and a dog with blood on its fur was found inside.
A neighbor told officers that on Wednesday night she saw a man with a bald head in her backyard and 'acting odd' and 'skipping around the property,' the complaint states.
Another neighbor saw she heard a commotion coming from Kaiser's home just before midnight Thursday, then a male yelling and a female screaming. She said she heard pounding on the walls, things being thrown around and that the commotion 'sounded like someone was being murdered,' the complaint says.
Investigators examined the bedroom, which had blood spatter on the walls, ceiling and windowsill. A broken lamp, fork and bloody jeans were lying on top of Kaier's body, which was covered in a white and yellow powder. Schlossin's wallet was in a pocket of the jeans.
The Burnsville woman told police Friday that she noticed a man was staring at her, so went inside her home through the sliding glass door. She began making dinner for a child who was also at the home and grabbed a bag of frozen meat to cook.
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She said she heard the door open and saw the man inside. He lunged at her and pinned her against the refrigerator. While he was groping her, the complaint says, the woman struck him with the bag of frozen meat and punched him in the face, causing him to retreat and leave the home.
The woman gave police a detailed description of the man to law enforcement. A short time later, dispatch received a 911 call from a woman who saw a man bleeding from the face and stumbling. She said he approached her car and asked for a ride, and that he told her he didn't remember how he became injured.
Officers tracked down the man, who was identified as Schlossin, and he was arrested.
Court records show Schlossin has been convicted of drug possession (marijuana) twice and possession of drug paraphernalia once.
