Some Thoughts On The Unconfirmed Death Of David Barsotti – by Travis Mateer

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.

Thanks for reading!