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S3 Ep250: Crime Weekly News: Arrest Made in "Bear Attack" Murder

Crime Weekly

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome back to Crime Weekly News. I'm Derek Levasser.

0:18.0

And I'm Stephanie Harlow.

0:19.8

And this was a quick turnaround.

0:21.2

Last week on Crime Weekly News, we were covering the murder of Dustin Jersham, 35 years old, from Montana.

0:27.0

It happened, or he was found on October 10th.

0:30.2

And we had talked about some different scenarios.

0:32.0

We discussed the friend who reported finding him.

0:36.6

We also threw out some theories. And it turns out,

0:39.3

unfortunately, one of our theories were correct. Another scenario is this person approaches

0:44.6

the campsite as a friendly. And they say, hey, you know, I ran out of water or I ran out of

0:50.1

food. And kudos to law enforcement. We had talked about this one and how it was solvable

0:54.5

and what they could do. And there is an update and arrest in this case. And Stephanie's going to talk

0:59.4

about it. Yeah. So they actually identified the person who's responsible for taking Dustin's life

1:06.8

as 41-year-old Darren Christopher Abbey. And they were able to arrest him after his DNA was discovered on a beer can at the campsite where Dustin's body was found.

1:18.8

It looks like Dustin was killed on October 10th. He was found two days later by friends who thought he'd been mauled by a bear.

1:26.3

The men who, they didn't know each other.

1:28.4

So the guy who was arrested, Darren Christopher Abbey, did not know Dustin before they happened to run into each other in the great outdoors.

1:37.4

And the Gallatin County Sheriff, Sheriff Dan Springer, he said there's no motive for the attack yet.

1:43.2

But apparently, Dustin Jersam welcomed his

1:47.8

killer to share his campsite, which is about 35 miles south of the city of Bozeman, Montana. And at some point,

1:54.2

the killer, Abby, he hit Dustin with a piece of wood, then stabbed him with a screwdriver, and then

1:59.5

attacked him with an axe.

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