In the weeks between the recording of my interview for a Boston TV station and the airing of the segment yesterday, another dead body was found in Missoula.
What the local article will NOT tell you about the body is that the area it was found is known for homeless encampments, which have been popping up and getting cleared for years, including the encampment where the killer I was interviewed about lived before the forest fire drove him and his gang to the Reserve Street camps, where Gilbert “Jack” Berry was tortured and shot execution-style in the head with a 9mm gun before his body was dumped in the river for a fisherman to find.
Here’s a little information (emphasis on little) about Missoula’s latest corpse:
The Missoula Police Department is investigating after a hiker discovered a deceased male near the three-mile marker of the Kim Williams Trail on Wednesday afternoon.
Officers responded to the area just before 3:30 p.m. on November 12 after receiving the report from the hiker who found what appeared to be a body.
MPD’s Detective Division and the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office Coroner are conducting the investigation. The body of the deceased male has been transported to the Montana State Crime Lab for further investigation and identification.
Police said the individual’s identity will be released after a positive identification has been made and next of kin have been notified.
KPAX could have included the information from the press release about my co-worker’s dead body, which stated that it’s POLICY to treat ALL deaths outside of medical supervision as homicides until evidence proves otherwise, but why worry the citizens of Missoula unnecessarily? Only an unconventional blogger like myself appears capable of uttering the phrase SERIAL KILLER regarding the accumulation of dead body after dead body with virtually NO FOLLOW UP from local authorities, politicians, or other virtue-signalers who wait for the “right kind” of problem to make public noise about, like those terrible incidents of windows getting broken and pride flags being torn down.
Another person from Massachusetts is asking questions about another presumed dead body (though no body has ever been found), but this one got national attention, in part because Detective Guy Baker knows how to work his sources (which is probably why he was interested in finding out about MY sources as I’ve consistently called into question his “investigative” role over the years), starting with being the LEAD GUY in Jon Krakauer’s book about Missoula’s college rape culture.
Here’s the pitch to Reddit:
And here’s a comment I found interesting, so I responded to “Excellent-Orange8902” after providing my email contact to the person “studying criminal justice” in this totally compromised state where it’s OPEN SEASON for all kinds of trafficking (read my 2022 open letter to traffickers and my 2024 welcome post to the failed state of Montana for more context):
For a more robust list of people who have died or are still missing under mysterious circumstances, here’s the list I circulated at the beginning of the summer:
Have there been any substantive updates on any of these cases from official sources? If so, I haven’t seen them, nor have I seen the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office arrest ANYONE in the brutal murder of 88 year-old Delphine Farmer, a conspicuous lack of action even The Pulp covered at the beginning of last year.
There are two reasons Bod Ward reached out to me about Kevin Lino’s new indictments. First, I had a new post about old questions regarding Monte Swanson, and second, NO ONE ELSE in Missoula was willing to go on the record about Lino’s time in Missoula, especially those in authority failing to quell concerns locals have about HOW MANY BODIES show up dead with little to no follow up.
This is why I have ZERO RESPECT for Montana’s Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, who has only been in the news recently because Montana legislators are apparently too stupid to draft bills without major edits:
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen defended his edits to several proposed ballot initiatives on judicial elections, saying his office is obligated to ensure clear and legally sound language for voters, even as he faces multiple lawsuits accusing him of injecting partisanship into the process.
In an interview with NBC Montana, Knudsen said initiative sponsors often submit vague or confusing language, forcing the Department of Justice to revise it before it appears on the ballot.
When Missoula criminal justice narrative controllers, like Detective Baker and the chaplain of the Sheriff’s Office, Lowell Hochhalter, collaborated to blow hot air at Connie Walker for her nationally syndicated podcast, Stolen, I made an effective case to my kids’ school administrators at Target Range that I found it highly inappropriate for them to be using this podcast as teaching material considering what I had been reporting about Lowell’s “anti-trafficking” work at the time (or a smorgasbord of links, check out this post).
Maybe, with attention starting to come from outside the Missoula bubble, politicians like our County Commissioners can be inspired to spend less time playing with trains and Targeted Economic Development Districts, and more time actually keeping the public safe, instead of just paying lip-service to community concerns when it’s convenient.
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