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S3 Ep248: Crime Weekly News: Bear Attack Turns Out to Be Murder

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.89.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

**UPDATE!**
Since recording this episode, there's been an arrest in this case:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c629xz8z15go

Daren Christopher Abbey has been arrested and charged with the murder of Dustin Kjersem. Police have still not pieced together the motive for the vicious attack, but they say Daren has confessed to the crime. They were able to link Daren to DNA left at the crime scene.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome to crime weekly news. I'm Derek Levaser.

0:18.1

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:19.6

And we're going to get right into it tonight.

0:21.3

This is more of a call to action.

0:24.2

We're really passionate about unsolved cases.

0:26.2

You guys know I do detect a perspective every week.

0:28.9

And there's a lot of cases out there, not like Gypsy Rose, not like the Menendez brothers.

0:33.8

Actual cases just like those, who involve people who you may not have heard of, but are looking for justice, are looking for help just like those but that who involve people who you may not have heard of but are

0:39.1

looking for justice or looking for help just like everyone else and this is one of those

0:43.4

instances so in this particular case investigators are asking for help in solving a vicious

0:48.8

murder that was initially reported as a bear attack so the the person who found the victim sees the victim and

0:56.3

thinks, oh my God, this person was attacked by a bear. They call 911. Because it was so brutal

1:02.4

and so bloody that they assumed because they were camping. This person was camping, by the way.

1:07.2

That's right. That's right. And so they thought, oh, my God, must have been a bear attack.

1:14.8

And that was not the case. And Stephanie's going to fill us in right now.

1:22.9

So the victim is 35-year-old Dustin Jersam. He was last heard from on October 10th as he was leaving to go camping for the weekend.

1:37.7

He was going camping in Montana. It's a very remote area in Montana, in the mountains, and his friend actually found him the following Saturday on October 12th, dead in his tent.

1:48.1

And like I said, and like Derek had said, the way that this man's body was, he was so brutalized that they assumed it was a bear attack.

1:54.3

So wildlife and parks agents with expertise in bear attacks didn't find any sign of bear activity at the scene.

2:03.1

This prompted the police to begin, you know, investigating what did happen, according to the sheriff's office. And the sheriff's department has said in a statement, quote, this incident was a vicious attack and detectives are working hard

2:07.3

to develop and track down leads. A suspect has not been arrested at this time, end quote. At this

2:12.7

time, as we record this, no one has been apprehended for this. But this is very terrifying, right? Somebody goes out

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