Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, admitted viciously hacking to death Dustin Mitchell Kjersem, a 35-year-old stranger who had welcomed him into his campsite — even offering him a beer, Gallatin County ...

Image via Department Of Corrections Major new details have surfaced in the murder of a Montana man, initially mistaken for a ...

DNA from a beer can helped lead the authorities to an arrest in the killing of Dustin Kjersem, whose death was originally ...

DNA from a beer can led Montana police to a suspect who later confessed to beating and killing a man whose death was first ...

Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, was apprehended in Butte and charged with one count of deliberate homicide and two counts of ...

On October 12, Montana resident Dustin Kjersem was found slain in his tent in what was first assumed to be an animal attack.

The Gallatin County Sheriff’s office has identified suspect Daren Christopher Abbey for the murder of Dustin Kjersem.The ...

Daren Christopher Abbey, 41, of Basin, Montana, has been charged with deliberate homicide in the killing of Dustin Kjersem, ...

Daren Christopher Abbey, 41 ... During the course of the investigation, detectives collected DNA evidence from a beer can at the scene, which led them to Abbey, Springer said. Abbey was taken into ...

A bear attack was initially suspected in Dustin Kjersem’s death. But police now say he was killed by a man he had just met — ...

"This individual struck Dustin Kjersem with a piece of solid wood, stabbed him in the neck with a screwdriver, and ultimately hit him with the axe,” Springer said.