The Department of Justice in Montana is overseen by Attorney General, Austin Knudsen, pictured above smiling with the Hochhalter family, to the left, and former Detective Guy Baker, to the right. After getting a text yesterday from a LifeGuard Director, I decided to reread the Missoulian article from last September. Notice the careful wording about how there’s been no complaints against the LifeGuard Group…for the last 12 months!
If you read between the lines, what the Department of Justice is admitting here is that, before June of 2024, there apparently WERE complaints against the LifeGuard Group that the DOJ was aware of but, since “safe houses” are not “regulated by the agency”, nothing happened. Ok then.
If the LifeGuard Group was receiving State or Federal money, there might be some actual oversight, but Lowell Hochhalter and family operate thanks in LARGE part to Governor Gianforte’s personal foundation money, which helped them secure the ranch in the Bitterroot where “survivors” are kept in curious isolation on a sprawling property Lowell is trying to expand with drug money.
Think I’m kidding?
Because the LifeGuard Group claims “non-profit” status, they have to fill shit out, and because I have no social life, I spend weekend nights combing through documents in order to specifically wonder how “staff” are getting paid when the only paid staff, at least on paper, appear to be the Hochhalter family.
Without the kind of compensation that most of us require to exist, called MONEY, how are all these people being compensated? Are they getting penance points for past sins? I don’t get it, and it’s just one of many substantive red flags that start accumulating fast when you’re talking about working with alleged survivors of human trafficking, specifically women, which is the only type of survivor the LifeGuard Group seems interested in helping.
Maybe that’s because women love horses, and someone has to take care of those horses as the hard-working Christian saviors do the difficult work of going on Facebook and panhandling true believers for hay money:
Hey, didn’t that Berlin-born banker up in Seeley, who I exposed as being in uncomfortable proximity to the Epstein network, love to ride horses? ANSWER: fuck yeah he did.
Another part of this “non-profit’s” online advocacy entails pimping Jermain Charlo’s pretty face, since the early marketing for this group was DEEPLY tied to all the media our locally famous Detective, Guy Baker, garnered over Jermain’s disappearance, specifically, and the MMIW movement, more generally.
When Detective Baker finally announced his retirement in December after I first confirmed his retirement was imminent last July, I predicted that sometime this year we would get a big break in the Jermain Charlo case. After I made that prediction I found a true-crime piece on Baker where he hinted at the same thing at the very end of the article:
At the episode’s end, Baker told Charlo’s family that he was “very confident” they’d get the resolution they hoped for in the “very near future.”
Yeah, the now “Private Investigator” Guy Baker was recently “very confident” that “resolution” is coming in the “very near future”. It’s an incredible “Bosch” like narrative arc that I am highly suspicious of.
If a conversation with Lowell is being setup, like I was told by one of the unpaid directors who made the offer in a “friendly” text after I said my attempts to get in touch have been ignored, I’m going to be curious about what might be known about “accidental” river deaths, like Joey Thompson’s, and the much lesser known exit of a social worker from her position at the tiny house program run by the Union Gospel Mission.
That last link has a list of most of what I’ve written about Joey Thompson’s case, the young man who went missing in Deep Creek after a bonfire party, then showed up dead on “private” land somewhere down stream, in Mineral County. It’s one of a handful of cases I’ve compiled a perspective on far beyond what’s been reported by legacy media.
Until I get out of the financial hole I helped dig for myself in dogged pursuit of answers to WAY too many questions I now have about many, many things, donations are one way I’ve been scraping by, so click here and help me reach the modest amount I set years ago. Any little bit helps.
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