Kaarma Trial

Detective Mitch Lang took the stand in the Markus Kaarma trial today to take jurors through a video walk-through he filmed as well as crime scene photographs. One of Lang's specialties is determining patterns in criminal activity. He does not recall any pattern of crimes in the Prospect area of Grant Creek leading up to the shooting...

Testimony resumed in the trial of Markus Kaarma with the defense team's cross-examination of Sargeant Mike Hebert, who was the fourth officer on the scene. Hebert was responsible for evidence collection and management.

In a dramatic turn of events on Friday, Janelle Pflager, testifying in the murder trial of her partner and father of her son, Markus Kaarma, denied words she had spoken to a police officer regarding what she heard in the garage moments before the fatal shot was fired that killed Diren Dede,

On day two of the Markus Kaarma trial in Missoula, Kaarma's partner Janelle Pflager took the stand again to continue her testimony, describing the night of the shooting and its aftermath.

The deliberate homicide trial of Markus Kaarma began Thursday in Missoula with opening statements by the prosecution and defense. Montana State University students burned in dorm room explosion.. Child sex investigations in Billings Cloudy and mild in western Montana

The Markus Kaarma trial continued Thursday afternoon as the state presented its case in Missoula County District Court.

On April 17, more than a week before the fatal shooting of Diren Dede by Markus Kaarma, Kaarma's home was burglarized by two other Big Sky High school students. Those two students, Michael Martin and Tristan Staber were the first witnesses to take the stand at the Kaarma trial on December 4.

The Markus Kaarma trial started in full force today, December 4, with opening statements and new revelations about what happened the day German exchange student Diren Dede was shot.

Prosecutors open their case today in Missoula against homeowner Markus Kaarma, accused of deliberate homicide in the shooting death of a 17 year-old German exchange student.

The Missoula County Attorney's Office opens its case today against Markus Kaarma, the Missoula man accused in the shooting death of a 17 year-old German exchange student who was inside his darkened garage.