Missoula has seen two high profile murder cases in recent days and some citizens are wondering why the death penalty wasn’t invoked in either instance.
37 year-old Scott Austin Price was returned to Missoula from Coeur d’Alene Idaho on Monday by Missoula county sheriff’s officials to face several felony charges.
30 year-old Emanuel Gomez appeared in Missoula Justice Court on Monday afternoon charged with deliberate homicide in the death of 26 year-old Charlie Ann Wyrick. Bail was set at $1 million by Judge Karen Orzech.
Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton told KGVO News that fugitive murder suspect Brendan Meismer was caught late Wednesday afternoon inside a small trailer in the rugged foothills north of Helena.
Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies are on the lookout for 26 year-old Brandon Conrad Meisner, wanted for a suspicious death in Great Falls, who then allegedly carjacked a vehicle and fled to Helena.
Relatives and others say an 18-year-old Wyoming man accused of shooting a family that stopped to help him on a Montana roadside had been in and out of trouble in his hometown.