October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst says there is a very close connection between Domestic Violence and homicide in Montana.
Roughly fourteen percent of the state of Montana’s backlog of 1,400 untested rape kits are in Missoula County and according to Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst the case behind each kit has been carefully studied.
According to Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst, a legislative interim committee has been in talks with her office about changing laws dealing with sexual assault.
“Our senior deputy county attorneys and our lead attorneys have been working with interim committee researching other laws around the country that seem to work better than ours,” said Pabst...
The number of crimes being dealt with by the Missoula County Attorney’s office seems to grow every week, but County Attorney Kirsten Pabst says this past week was exceptionally busy.
Last Wednesday, Missoula authorities were notified that a rape suspect, 29-year-old Jordan Scott Bahr, was being held in Minnesota. Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst explains how law enforcement worked to find the suspect.