After putting a lot of time and resources into prosecuting Jason Ellsworth the guilty verdict has been thrown out. Why? Because accidents happen.
The guilty verdict in the official misconduct case against former Senate President Jason Ellsworth has been thrown out following revelations that jurors were exposed to sealed exhibits concerning communications with a potential key witness.
Lewis and Clark County District Judge Christopher Abbott said in a Wednesday court hearing that he learned Wednesday morning that jurors deliberating in the misdemeanor trial were inadvertently given exhibits by court staff regarding the scheduling of potential key witness Bryce Eggleston.
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“The state does believe that there should be a new trial,” said Dan Guzynski, an assistant Montana attorney general, speaking at a mistrial hearing Wednesday. “I also want to make a brief comment that everybody makes mistakes, and this whole process, and what we’re all involved in, is subject to the human condition.”
Does the “human condition” that Montanans are subjected to, via actions taken with their tax dollars, mean we have to pay for how retarded people can be? I guess so.
For Jason Ellsworth the tossing out of his guilty verdict is an unexpected gift because his evasion of the bidding process when awarding a lucrative contract to his buddy was pretty obvious. I also find it interesting that the work that would have been done by his buddy was tracking legislative bills “curtailing the powers of Montana courts“:
Eggleston is Ellsworth’s longtime friend and former employee, who in 2024 pitched the senator on tracking the state’s progress implementing 27 legislative bills created by lawmakers with the purpose of curtailing the powers of Montana courts. Ellsworth signed two contracts totaling $170,000 for the proposed services on Dec. 26, 2024.
The work was to be performed by Agile Analytics, a then newly formed company for which Eggleston was the registered agent. Prosecutors allege that Ellsworth circumvented competitive bidding requirements and signed the contracts without a required review by state procurement agents.
Eggleston informed the Legislature in early 2025 that Agile was no longer interested in the work after Ellsworth’s handling of the agreements drew public attention.
While this effort blew up in Ellsworth’s face, holding this retarded state legislator accountable will now have to start over at square one. How embarrassing.
Speaking of embarrassing legislators who are so cognitively deficient they can’t even press the right button on a critical vote, who remembers what Tom Jacobson did 13 years ago with Medicaid expansion in Montana?
Yep, retarded Tom was so retarded that even the Washington Post had to marvel at his cataclysmic mistake:
Some states have declined to expand Medicaid because they oppose Obamacare. Others worry about the financial burden of expanding the entitlement. But there appears to be only one state where the Medicaid expansion failed due to a Democratic legislator accidentally voting against it.
Congratulations, Montana.
“We’re tremendously sorry about what happened,” Minority Leader Chuck Hunter, a Democrat, said of the mistaken vote. “Montanans are the losers in this outcome.”
The reporter continues with how unbelievable this idiocy appeared to be:
When I first read about this in a local Montana paper, it sounded unbelievable. How did a legislator get the vote wrong? And, if the vote was a mistake, was there some mechanism to change it? This was, after all, a vote deciding whether 70,000 Montanans would gain health coverage — and whether the state would massively expand an entitlement program.
So I started making some phone calls to Montana. Turns out everybody knew about this mistaken vote — and that the story was even more complex than I had thought.
The complexity about how legislative sausage is made doesn’t change the fact that, at the critical moment, Tom Jacobson fucked up so significantly, tens of thousands of regular Montanans were impacted. Impressive.
Nothing I’ve seen from local government since this vote has given me confidence that cognition deficiencies aren’t a continued threat. From police investigations to cleaning up homeless camps, when local government gets involved, everything just seems to get dumber and more expensive.
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Who is Penny Ronning and why do I think her work fighting human trafficking ensures Montana will remain a mecca for human traffickers?
Great question, let’s take a look at Penny’s supposed “credentials“:
Penny Ronning is a nationally recognized anti trafficking advocate and policy strategist known for turning survivor informed insight into laws that dismantle exploitation networks and strengthen public safety. The daughter of a trafficking survivor, Penny brings personal perspective and more than three decades of leadership advancing protections for victims and accountability for offenders.
She is co-founder and president of the Yellowstone Human Trafficking Task Force, Montana’s largest anti trafficking coalition. Through her policy work, Penny has helped pass 13 state laws and 5 federal bills strengthening anti trafficking and exploitation statutes and expanding investigative capacity.
While serving on the Billings City Council, Penny authored and led passage of a landmark ordinance targeting illicit massage businesses operating as fronts for trafficking. At the time, Billings had more illicit massage businesses per capita than New York City. Within one year, the ordinance shut down all known illicit massage businesses in Billings and remains a powerful tool for closing new operations as they emerge. The ordinance has been cited as a model for how local governments disrupt organized exploitation.
Penny is a national speaker, former congressional nominee, and recipient of the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Her leadership has also been recognized with two invitations to the White House.
If Penny Ronning wasn’t a Democrat partisan engaging in narrative control around the Epstein Files, I might be inclined to take her work more seriously, but that’s what I see coming from this Democrat in her recent Facebook post comparing Seth Bodnar to Donald Trump while ignoring the Clinton/Epstein legacy, highlighted by the fact Bill Clinton was just recently spotted in Big Sky country.
Why does Montana seem like a safe space for high-profile abusers? Is it because we have “advocates” like Penny Ronning entering the political fray with shit like this?
Before we get to the non-English speaking teenager who stabbed a minor in the parking lot of Planet Fitness on Monday, let’s see what the liberal white ladies predominantly commenting on Penny’s FB post think about her brave advocacy:
Was it the “white, male patriarchy” who decided Missoula was a great place to relocate refugees to from around the world? Or was it virtue-signaling liberal white women, like Mary Poole?
While this white woman who only hires women (discriminate much?) smiles the smile of toxic empathy, it appears one of Soft Landing’s little experiments in schismogenesis learned how to wield a knife before acquiring the ability to speak English:
A Missoula judge set bail at $50,000 for an 18-year-old accused of stabbing a 16-year-old in the back of the head outside the Planet Fitness on Reserve Street on Monday.
Hussein Al-Ali was arrested Monday evening and charged with felony aggravated assault involving the use of a weapon.
Missoula County Justice Court Judge Landee Holloway informed Al-Ali through an interpreter in court Tuesday of the allegations made in the charging documents, including that Al-Ali stabbed the victim with a knife and continued active pursuit of the victim after the victim attempted to flee Al-Ali on two occasions during the altercation.
Al-Ali denied having a knife, after which Holloway informed Al-Ali that initial appearances are not the appropriate time to dispute details of charging documents.
While Hussein Al-Ali doesn’t speak English or understand the judicial system, he DID manage to somehow get a car and a driver’s license so that he could chase his stabbing victim with another potentially lethal weapon:
One witness allegedly described the punching as a downward motion, stating that she believed the victim was being punched until she saw blood and heard him saying he had been stabbed.
Witnesses also reported seeing the victim throw a water bottle at Al-Ali to get away from him, at which point Al-Ali allegedly returned to his vehicle to continue his pursuit of the victim.
With Missoula enjoying the benefits of this intentional multiculturalism, let’s return to Penny Ronning’s political post about human trafficking, Donald Trump and Seth Bodnar:
This comparison is pathetic. These 18 women had their moment in court, they got money for the alleged discrimination they experienced, but now they want MORE? Why? Because Seth Bodnar “just said no” to running as a toxic, self-destructive, virtue-signaling Democrat who must defend chemically castrating children and transplanting refugees to rape and stab people in their host communities to gain acceptance?
Here’s another question: how does any of this illuminate the EPSTEIN NETWORK and the power of non-partisan wealth indulging in unimaginable depravities across the globe?
For Penny Ronning there’s a “dangerous turn” coming that she describes after acknowledging Bodnar’s achievements “deserve consideration”, but the danger has nothing to do with the implosion of the Democratic party in Montana, which was the catalyst for creating the political environment where an independent run by a candidate like Seth Bodnar became possible in the first place.
No, instead she claims the danger is “idolatry” because I guess it has to be something religious-sounding, like alleged hero worship, that could be so dangerously standing in the way of 18 women being able to continue playing their victims cards to destroy the candidacy of Seth Bodnar.
This pathetic political post isn’t just a disservice to victims of human trafficking, of which BOYS are also victims, it’s also a text-book example of using the straw man fallacy to win an argument, which, in this case, is the argument posed by Bodnar supporters that he’s the stronger candidate.
If Penny Ronning would like to be more effective at her supposed job of combatting human trafficking in Montana, here’s a suggestion: click and read ALL the links in this post, then donate money to ME because, unlike Nick Shirley, I’m an actual citizen journalist taking actual risks by looking at local power without partisan blinders on and reporting back what I see.
Today’s trifecta of embarrassment for badges spans three counties, beginning with a wrong-way driver on I-90 that MISSOULA authorities had to deal with because no one was available from Mineral County.
On July 9, 2026, shortly before 3:30 AM, Mineral County 911 received multiple calls regarding a wrong-way driver traveling on Interstate 90. The calls indicated that the suspect vehicle was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-90. The Mineral County Sheriff’s Office did not have any deputies available, so the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office provided aid. The driver, later identified as 60-year-old Dirk Hinkle, was ultimately stopped within the boundary of Missoula County after his vehicle was pinned by deputies.
How often does the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office “not have any deputies available” for interstate highway emergencies? July is Montana’s primetime month for summer travel , when traffic on highways around the state get busier and more dangerous, so it’s kind of worrying that no one from Mineral County could respond to 60 year-old Dirk Hinkle, who had to be “pinned” by Missoula County deputies to stop him.
Moving on to Sanders County, a young woman with an accent became the center of a Facebook controversy after the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office attempted to educate their community about this woman’s presence, including making note of her accent. I guess this caused people to flip out.
On July 6, the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office in western Montana put up a rather odd post on Facebook.
It was a picture of a deputy standing with a smiling woman outside the sheriff’s office.
“Good afternoon, Sanders County residents,” the post read. “We have met and spoken with Sinija Loze. She works with Families for Education. She is a college student from Latvia doing her summer job selling educational products by Southwestern Advantage. We have verified her information, she does have a accent but is a very nice lady. Her vehicle is a Grey jeep. No need to be alarmed if you see her.”
The post got hundreds of reactions on Facebook, and many commenters were either confused or angry.
The cute young girl the Sanders County Sheriff’s Office was, I’m sure, eager to help out, actually provided the “script” for what to post about her, including the bit about her accent, and Sanders County obliged. Unfortunately, here’s how some people in Sanders County responded:
“I’m genuinely confused about the purpose of this post?” one of the top comments read. “Are people in Montana ‘alarmed’ by someone with an ‘accent’? Literally everybody has an accent.”
Someone else wondered if it was the “accent” part or the “selling educational products” that had everyone “on edge.”
Many comments were either xenophobic or assailing the sheriff’s office for implying that people with accents were to be feared unless told otherwise.
Moving on to Missoula, this KGVO article got my attention for a number of reasons, like the fact a “known drug house” exists in Missoula.
On July 12, 2026, at approximately 8:21 p.m., a Missoula Police Department Officer was on routine patrol when he observed a red Kia Sorento come to a stop directly in front of his vehicle at a known drug house. The officer determined that the registered owner of the vehicle, 42-year-old Melissa Brooks, had a suspended driver’s license.
Brooks exited her vehicle, at which time the officer activated his emergency lights. Brooks then walked to the front of the officer’s patrol vehicle. While communicating with Brooks, dispatch advised the officer that Brooks was on probation. The officer then contacted and advised Adult Probation and Patrol of the circumstances. Probation requested that a search of Brooks, her purse, and her vehicle be conducted.
Upon completing the search, the officer discovered drug paraphernalia, including multiple new hypodermic syringes, pre-cut folded pieces of tin foil, latex tourniquets, alcohol prep pads, pipes consistent with smoking controlled substances, butane fuel, single-use saline containers, and a multitude of small clear plastic baggies consistent with selling and buying small quantities of narcotics.
Do the cops know Melissa Brooks? Yes, they most certainly do, because Melissa Brooks once worked at Open Aid Alliance and was a panelist, along with a cop and another person back on drugs, April Seat, during an official city update of the 10 Year Plan To End Homelessness (emphasis mine):
When this article about Melissa Brooks being arrested near a “known drug house” first hit Facebook, people seemed confused about how a “known drug house” could exist. If the cops “know” about it, doesn’t logic lead one to assume they would be able to do something about it?
For being in possession of dangerous drugs (with intent to sell?), Melissa Brooks spent just one more day in jail than I did when I was arrested on June 19th in the parking lot of the Great Burn Brewery on a warrant alleging I was in technical violation of a restraining order on June 15th.
Before this 2026 arrest, Melissa Brooks was arrested in 2024 and had drugs stashed in her lady parts, including Fentanyl, the infamous drug killing thousands and thousands of addicts across the country.
Brooks was placed under arrest and taken to the Missoula County Detention Center. While the officer was filling out paperwork, court documents indicate he was informed by the jail that they had located drugs hidden in Brooks’ vaginal area and under her bra. The officer observed two clear baggies. One contained 12 fentanyl pills and the other contained a crystal-like substance that appeared to be methamphetamine but tested inconclusive.
The officer applied for and was granted a search warrant for Brooks’ car. Officers found a loaded hypodermic needle of meth, butane torches, a glass pipe, tooter straws, two pieces of burnt tinfoil, butane fluid, two containers filled with liquid methadone, and a black digital scale.
If I had to speculate about Melissa Brooks I’d say there’s a good chance she’s dealing drugs, and she could be one of the protected dealers doing it for the cops, like I suspect John Skinner had been doing, as an informant, for many years, which I wrote about in this post.
Since I know it’s hard to believe this kind of corruption could be happening in a nice liberal mountain town, like Missoula, here’s a 20 second clip from the latest episode of Sugar, a noir tv show about a PI who finds missing persons:
Here’s the dialogue written out for you non-viewers of video:
Tom Flyberg: “Fucking embarrassment, you know most Sheriffs are cool, good guys, good police, but there’s always been this group of ‘em, banger’s with badges.
John Sugar: “Starts in the jails, huh? Alameda Sheriff’s Department runs it?”
Tom Flyberg: “Uh-huh, it’s where they make the connections.”
Yep, this tracks, which reminds me…didn’t Missoula’s Sheriff, Jeremiah Petersen, run the jail before running unopposed to become TOP LAW DOG of Missoula County?
Yes he did.
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A woman by the name of Danielle Egnew just put forth my favorite new conspiracy theory about the inexplicable rise of Alani Bankead and what it might all be pointing to in terms of who the grand manipulator could be, so I’m going to highlight some excerpts before the national media picks this up, which is imminent, apparently.
Let’s begin.
My inbox has been full with people asking me what I think is going to happen in the U.S. Senate race in Montana — which is about two seconds from hitting the national news and becoming the new high-drama scroll-bait. That breaks my heart.
I have some thoughts on the current Montana political race for Senate. I’ve been POURING over the weirdness of this issue. Something about it just wasn’t adding up, given the calculated nature of politics, and the money—and Tester’s experience. NONE of it added up.
Until it did.
And then it really, really did.
Egnew, who was once a candidate herself for Mayor of Billings a decade ago, spends a lot of time laying the foundation for how she’s arrived at her conspiracy theory, including what she hopes to accomplish by sharing her conspiracy theory, and why she hopes her conspiracy theory is wrong. That’s because what she describes is a complicated, 5-D chess maneuver assembled in her mind from a gut feeling that Mr. Flattop is playing the role of Machiavelli, so let’s skip ahead to where we start getting to the good stuff:
At this point, my speculation uncovers that Tester knows there’s no way Bodner wins. Tester’s declared unofficial war on the Dem party so it’s very doubtful they’re going to want to dump their candidate for his. He’s going to be aware of that. So this can’t be about Bodner winning. Tester knows he can’t and won’t. This can’t even be about Tester’s anger or disappointment at the party.
This has to be about watering the vote.
And THAT has to be about something else.
Danielle Egnew is taking us into a political house of mirrors where I had previously bumped around, wondering if Alani Bankhead was somehow a covert op for Kurt Alme and/or angling for a future job under the future Governor, Austin Knudsen. But that was before I found out about Tester’s role with Anthropic, which I had first picked up on scanning Facebook comments before seeing Egnew make it a central part of her conspiracy theory:
With a deep split in the vote, and many Dems feeling like they got “the finger” from Tester —which doesn’t inspire backing “his guy”, so to speak, and that, too, is something he would have considered— the next logical step is that short of a big Hail Mary, we’re going to get Alme, which means we’ll get data centers—and with Tester on the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, again, my eyebrow is really, REALLY RILLY RILLY raised here.
Yes, not only is Jon Tester assisting Anthropic now, his arrival on the Advisory Council scene (announced last August) puts him at the heart of an industry revolutionizing how we do EVERYTHING, especially war.
If this new role for Tester includes playing the puppet master in order to split Democrats and ensure Kurt Alme’s victory in November, here’s how Egnew imagines the rationale could have played out in the dirt farmer’s Machiavellian head:
It makes sense Tester received that appointment. He’s a dirt farmer. He knows the vast expanses of eastern and southern central Montana. He knows the barren land, the greatest commodity in data processing besides power. Perhaps he took the appointment because he was watching the inevitable tech wave on the horizon imminently baring down on our open prairies to turn them into humming data factories, and he at least knows the difference between fertile soil, and rocky clay that could hold a foundation. Maybe it gives him no joy, but he can’t stop the inevitable, so better to just park it all on lifeless dirt? Perhaps he knew he couldn’t hold back the avalanche but could at least direct the flow.
Because if I were a speculating person, that’s LITERALLY the only thing that would make actual through-line-sense in this Michael-Crichton-From-Hell novel.
Bodner would be a pawn, the good faith of people believing in Bodner would be the pawn— so many pawns. Neill and Bankhead and Montana voters and the state itself are casualties.
This plan is so well laid out, right down to when Bodner loses and when we get Alme—Tester can blame the Dems for not backing Bodner, and blame Alani for not “dropping out”— and no one will be looking at DATA CENTER because the finger pointing will be poking out eyes.
Could Danielle Egnew’s conspiracy theory be correct? She’s certainly got that last part right about poking out eyes, which seemed to escalate after 17 legislators wrote that letter I would have written about more explicitly if I wasn’t legally forbidden from writing about one of the signatories.
Instead, let’s consult some curated comments from the digital commons about the signatories:
While the FB comments about the letter smacked of asking mom and dad to stop fighting, they seemed more hostile toward the dad side, which conveniently kept one aspect of Alani Bankhead’s candidacy from being closely scrutinized, and that’s the question of where she came from and how long she’s been a resident of Montana, something Montanans are notorious for taking pretty seriously.
Another thing not appreciated by Montanans is the state of California, so if Reilly really is running to Los Angeles to tattle on Montana for mean political conspiracies against women, like Egnew claims at the end of her Facebook post, then that will just worsen the animosity that has broken out between Democrat women and Seth Bodnar supporters, further increasing the odds of Kurt Alme will win easily in November.
Reilly is on her Facebook page claiming Alani is a “plant” to deliberately foul her campaign and that she’s a “ghost”, that everything she’s said about herself is fabricated. Neill’s saying she’s been interviewed by LA TV producers about all of this in an upcoming national expose on everybody involved — Bodner, Tester, Alani, herself. Yeah. Great.
We Montanans just wanted a shot at a decent senator to help fix what’s wrong in the USA.
We just wanted to have a primary and run a good campaign.
If this is correct— and I truly hope I’m simply having a demented Agatha Christie moment—then thanks, Jon Tester.
I guess if you can’t have it— then none of us can?
The “Data Center” angle is definitely a good conspiracy theory angle to apply to the Montana Senate race, and it may even be true because, to emphasize how weird things are getting, an environmental group just advocated to keep PSC pariah, Brad Molnar, close to the energy company merger action, since he knows (and opposes) what this merger could mean for…DATA CENTERS!
A Missoula-based environmental group has raised concerns about a replacement Montana Public Service Commissioner voting on a potential Northwestern Energy – Black Hills Corporation merger.
A replacement is needed because Gov. Greg Gianforte recently suspended Commissioner Brad Molnar of Laurel for one year, citing alleged inappropriate behavior toward staff members.
The group 350 Montana says Molnar knows the details of the proposed merger and needs to be in on the decision. NorthWestern officials have said they are seeking the merger to increase generation capacity in the face of rising demand. Critics, including Molnar, have said the merger is aimed at paving the way for development of data centers, which have drawn criticism from local ratepayers.
And to further highlight the strange bedfellows emerging in this data center drama, I was already quite suspicious of how the national narrative was forming when Erin Brockovich popped up to re-brand herself as an anti-data center warrior…
…but now, with last Saturday’s nationally organized protest being coordinated by a former Tea Party movement activist, that suspicion has grown significantly.
The backlash against the AI data-center build-out – which we’ve been tracking since it was a smattering of county fights across 28 states – staged its first coordinated day of action on Saturday: 142 protests across 42 states, from Wasilla, Alaska to Naples, Florida, organized by Humans First, the nonprofit that Tea Party veteran Amy Kremer co-founded and chairs. The crowds spanned both sides of the aisle…uniting a MAGA stalwart in a ‘faith, family, freedom’ T-shirt in New Jersey, a first-time activist in Texas, and a left-leaning organizer in California’s Imperial Valley.
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Kremer is a founding figure of the Tea Party movement who went on to found Women for Trump, and an organizer of the January 6, 2021 rally that preceded the Capitol riot (she neither planned nor took part in the riot itself). She has spent months calling data centers the defining fight of her lifetime, warning the technology could threaten humanity itself, and she is open about running the old playbook: grassroots pressure, town by town, aimed at both parties.
Does Amy Kremer sound like a “grassroots” activist? Or, if your brain isn’t partisan retard mush, does she sound like a Fed?
I think Amy Kremer sounds like a Fed.
To finish this up, it’s my somewhat radical assertion that what’s happening right now with these more covert data center power plays possibly hiding behind local political theatrics was foretold in Ari Aster’s movie, Eddington, which I helped break down on an episode of the PsyOp Cinema podcast, which you can listen to here. There are even specific references to Montana that I caught in the movie and put into context with my pattern-recognition skills, so check it out!
I also caught what I believe to be a reference to the Epstein Network in that film, which makes sense considering Eddington takes place in New Mexico, where the Zorro Ranch is located, and where Ghislaine Maxwell’s sister, Christine Maxwell, does her work at the Santa Fe Institute, which I wrote about 3 years ago in a post titled “Six Degrees Of Jeffrey Epstein, Missoula Edition“.
Because of my research into the Epstein connections to Montana, which you can peruse in this post with lots of links to other relevant posts, my ability to live anything close to a “normal” life has been totally upended. While an alleged “plant” like Alani Bankhead uses the phrase “Epstein Era” for legacy media to take note of, my work on Epstein is only getting official attention from the courts as the bathroom judge listened attentively on May 12th to a state legislator commit perjury before putting a TEN YEAR retraining order in place that excludes me from downtown Missoula, a majority of UM’s campus, the capitol building in Helena, and essential services that I need to access in order to fight for my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS on appeal.
The people who continue to come after me, using whatever means available to try and shut me down, have VERY close ties to Jon Tester AND the Gianforte administration, so I’m in a unique position to see how non-partisan the corruption in Montana truly is, and how effective the manipulative efforts to control narratives actually are once you take the blinders off, and for that ability I am being severly punished.
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With unconfirmed reports that David Barsotti was found dead in his home recently in Superior, Montana, I rewatched a handful of “True Crime” content this weekend about his wife, Rebekah Barsotti, who went missing five years ago tomorrow and was found dead 10 months later. Here’s what stood out to me from my brief trip down memory lane where I, and many others, may have been manipulated from the very beginning of Rebekah Barsotti’s “disappearance”.
If David Barsotti murdered his wife, either directly or by paying someone else to do it, then it wasn’t just the prospect of divorce that may have been the catalyst, it was likely the specific impact on the couple’s main asset–their marital home–that made the prospect of divorce so threatening.
After Rebekah’s body was found (but before she was officially identified) Rebekah’s mother, Angela Mastrovito, discussed how this pre-disappearance marital fight was shaping up once Rebekah made up her mind to leave.
After being reminded about how important the house was to David Barsotti I was curious to see what the Montana Cadastral website would show about the property. Here’s a screenshot:
River front property? Hmmm.
Before moving on there are a few data points from Montana Cadastral to parse out, like this one:
The deed alteration due to “Termination of Joint Tenancy by Death” occurred on 8/25/2022, just three months after Rebekah was found dead under VERY suspicious circumstances. Considering how vigorously David Barsotti fought his mother-in-law to control his wife’s corpse after she was found NOT alive, and considering how vigorously Angela Mastrovito fought her son-in-law all the way to the Montana Supreme Court for money to compensate her choice to move to Montana and search for her daughter, it seems notable that David made legally updating his property information a priority.
It’s a possibility, though, that I’m not interpreting this data correctly because something else that seemed notable, like when the information on this property was “Last Modified”…
…only appeared significant (David possibly died BEFORE July 13th) until I ran this by someone else and they noticed the same date/time modification on their own property at this site, indicating a system modification done automatically, not a specific modification done by an individual.
If I was going on a live-stream, like Jim Terry asked me to do yesterday during our brief and repulsive phone conversation, then depicting the deed modification as being done in the wee hours of the night by an unnamed individual plays MUCH better for the eager audience of wine-moms Terry seems to both despise, and rely on, for income, as reported a few years ago by the Rolling Stone.
When I spoke to Jim Terry yesterday, he asked when I heard David had died. I told him Friday, then got some interesting tidbits from him, like his theory that some local cops are trafficking guns to and from Arkansas, but after I turned down his offer to appear on his YouTube channel, or go to David’s house and live-stream some bullshit for him, that’s when the phone line seemed to cut-out and I sensed a ploy to see if I was eager enough to play bullshit games and call back.
I did not call back.
One of the few bright spots in this dark period of my life is that I never played the “True Crime” game that other colorful characters, like Nathan, seemed to play when he pretended to go along with a plan to burn down Angela Mastrovito’s Virginia home.
By staying local and avoiding the trap of the spectacle I kept myself on the periphery as this drama of recorded phone calls and plans to commit arson, or worse, unfolded. Now I’m wondering why Angela Mastrovito’s first Private Investigator, John Baker, proposed the idea of ensnaring David Barsotti in the pre-planning stage of this arson conspiracy plot in the first place.
Could there have been an attempt to muddy the waters from the get-go?
I called John Baker’s PI office yesterday and left a message, so maybe I’ll get a chance to ask directly about the methods of a Montana PI, methods I’ll remind readers that former Mineral County Sheriff, Mike Toth, is trying to standardize for the whole state.
Grief is a powerful thing and, like most powerful things, an entire industry has been built around it, so I try not to fault Angela Mastrovito for potentially getting suckered by two Private Investigators, but no one forced this genuinely grieving mother to add her two cents to the Rolling Stone article. No, that was done to strategically amplify the profile her daughter’s story because it’s easy, with grief as an engine, the think the ends justify the means.
Though I’m skeptical about how and why they were acquired, the calls Nathan recorded with David Barsotti do provide a window into David’s drunken “planning” that might be helpful in ascertaining one of Jim Terry’s claims, and that’s the one that local cops are dealing guns (Terry also thinks someone should dig under a concrete pad at David’s property for the body he thinks is underneath it).
Here are some exchanges I took screenshots of from this episode of Hidden True Crime:
“They do not know how far it goes“…that stood out to me.
One of those “ex’s” is still alive and is most likely the one that gave an anonymous interview, probably the one who’s identity was used as a threat by the PI Mastrovito hired to get answers for her, at whatever cost.
Why is David’s face put on TV bad for him? Who is he afraid will see?
There are a few other threads that might be worth pulling on with the timing of David Barsotti’s supposed death, and one reason to pull is the possibility (right now, just a rumor) that Wayne Cashman is fixing to run a write-in candidacy for Sheriff to preserve the stank-ass legacy of Ryan Funke, a legacy carefully protected by my favorite Bathroom Judge, a judge who must love men in uniform so much he thinks of meat (“nothing burgers“, he calls ’em) when he SHOULD BE thinking of rights, as enshrined on the kind of paper you wouldn’t dream of using in a bathroom.
See that? That’s the smile of a law man who knows that rivers and other bodies of water in Montana are the best method for keeping the murder rate low.
If you know, you know.
For more context on this case, this post has 25 links to click through, so have at it.
And, in honor of NOT wanting to make a dime off this case, I’ll omit my panhandling link to my GoFundMe page for this post. But, stay tuned, because I may have more to say once the rumor of David Barsotti’s death is finally made official.
