DNA from a beer can helped lead the authorities to an arrest in the killing of Dustin Kjersem, whose death was originally ...
Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, was apprehended in Butte and charged with one count of deliberate homicide and two counts of ...
On October 12, Montana resident Dustin Kjersem was found slain in his tent in what was first assumed to be an animal attack.
The suspect later confessed to beating and killing a man whose death was first reported as a possible bear attack.
The Gallatin County Sheriff’s office has identified suspect Daren Christopher Abbey for the murder of Dustin Kjersem.The ...
Daren Christopher Abbey, 41 ... During the course of the investigation, detectives collected DNA evidence from a beer can at the scene, which led them to Abbey, Springer said. Abbey was ...
Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, of Basin, Montana, has been charged with deliberate homicide in the killing of Dustin Kjersem, ...
Daren Christopher Abbey ... ruled a homicide after an autopsy. Abbey, who was in custody on unrelated charges, became a suspect through DNA tests on a beer can found at the campsite — and ...
"This individual struck Dustin Kjersem with a piece of solid wood, stabbed him in the neck with a screwdriver, and ultimately hit him with the axe,” Springer said.
A beer can left at a murder scene helped officials hunt down a man accused of bludgeoning a Montana father and avid outdoorsman to death in his camping tent, police said. Gallatin County ...