The FBI is keeping mum on details of the death of a Great Falls woman who told her family she had been kidnapped before being shot to death in the trunk of her car.
While the FBI is following up leads in the search for a suspect in the killing of Rita Maze, whose body was found Wednesday morning in the trunk of a car in Spokane after apparently being abducted in Montana, Spokane officials say they have not taken anyone into custody.
33 year-old Carissa Lynn Kopp was arrested not long after Thomas Dempsey and Nick West in relation to the robbery and carjacking incident that occurred on Friday, May 27, as an accomplice in the incident.
The two men who allegedly robbed a casino, carjacked a family and fired shots at pursuing officers early Friday morning, are in custody at the Missoula County Jail.
After a search that began on Tuesday afternoon, Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office officials, along with the FBI and Fort Peck Reservation Police, confirmed that the body of Kenzley Ava-LeAnn Olson was found on Wednesday in Poplar.
Last week at the University of Montana Mansfield Center, the Missoula Police Department and other state agencies hosted a conference on human trafficking for law enforcement.
Ravalli County Commissioners were surprised that between 500 and 600 people turned out Thursday for a meeting to oppose resettlement of Syrian refugees to western Montana.
After a new series of polygraph tests, suspicion has fallen on the parents of a two year-old boy who went missing near the Montana and Idaho border last summer.