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Man questioned in murder of Montana mother and son who stumbled into fortune
Morning Mix
Man questioned in murder of Montana mother and son who stumbled into fortune
By Yanan Wang December 1 at 4:31 AM
@yananw
Police in rural Montana are questioning a man previously convicted of aggravated kidnapping in connection with the murder of an elderly woman and her son who disappeared just ten days after they came into possession of a bar of gold worth almost half a million dollars.
The bodies of Beverly and Greg Giannonatti were found in a dump site in Powell County, Mont., Sunday night — a month after the mother, 79, and son, 57, vanished without a trace.
{Bodies of elderly woman and her son found after eerie disappearance}
Powell County Sheriff Scott Howard identified David Wayne Nelson as a “high person of interest” in the case, the Montana Standard reported Monday, though he has not been charged with anything. Nelson has a Deer Lodge address and is being jailed without bail on a 72-hour investigative hold, Howard said at a news conference .
Nelson, 53, violated probation on an unrelated charge out of Ravalli County and appeared in court late Monday. Montana Department of Corrections records show that he was convicted of robbery and aggravated kidnapping in 1998, burglary in 1981 and accountability for aggravated assault in 2000.
Man questioned in murder of Montana mother and son who stumbled into fortune
By Yanan Wang December 1 at 4:31 AM
@yananw
Police in rural Montana are questioning a man previously convicted of aggravated kidnapping in connection with the murder of an elderly woman and her son who disappeared just ten days after they came into possession of a bar of gold worth almost half a million dollars.
The bodies of Beverly and Greg Giannonatti were found in a dump site in Powell County, Mont., Sunday night — a month after the mother, 79, and son, 57, vanished without a trace.
{Bodies of elderly woman and her son found after eerie disappearance}
Powell County Sheriff Scott Howard identified David Wayne Nelson as a “high person of interest” in the case, the Montana Standard reported Monday, though he has not been charged with anything. Nelson has a Deer Lodge address and is being jailed without bail on a 72-hour investigative hold, Howard said at a news conference .
Nelson, 53, violated probation on an unrelated charge out of Ravalli County and appeared in court late Monday. Montana Department of Corrections records show that he was convicted of robbery and aggravated kidnapping in 1998, burglary in 1981 and accountability for aggravated assault in 2000.
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That Montana double-murder mystery: The handyman did it, police say, not for the gold but for silver
By Yanan Wang December 30 at 4:50 AM
@yananw
After Beverly Giannonatti and her son Gregory vanished without a trace from Deer Lodge, Mont., in late October, speculation swirled over whether their disappearance was linked to a 25-pound gold bar that Beverly was said to have recently acquired.
And during the month they were missing, the small town wondered and worried and, as it turned out, with good reason. Their bodies were found after a month-long search. They were allegedly murdered. Now police say it wasn’t for the gold, valued at $480,000. It was for 1,700 ounces of silver, worth about $26,000, authorities said.
The Powell County Sheriff’s Office has charged a local handyman with stealing the silver, killing the mother and son in a violent fight after being confronted about the theft, and then disposing of their bodies and other evidence in remote locations around Deer Lodge. To obscure the bodies’ location outdoors at a dump site, he covered them with sticks and logs, police say. ... The bar of gold, assuming it ever existed, has yet to be found.
Charged with two counts of deliberate homicide Tuesday was David Wayne Nelson — formerly a “person of interest” — was charged Tuesday with two counts of deliberate homicide. Authorities say Nelson has confessed to the crime. He has a court appearance scheduled for Jan. 5.
David Wayne Nelson. (Montana Department of Corrections)
That Montana double-murder mystery: The handyman did it, police say, not for the gold but for silver
By Yanan Wang December 30 at 4:50 AM
@yananw
After Beverly Giannonatti and her son Gregory vanished without a trace from Deer Lodge, Mont., in late October, speculation swirled over whether their disappearance was linked to a 25-pound gold bar that Beverly was said to have recently acquired.
And during the month they were missing, the small town wondered and worried and, as it turned out, with good reason. Their bodies were found after a month-long search. They were allegedly murdered. Now police say it wasn’t for the gold, valued at $480,000. It was for 1,700 ounces of silver, worth about $26,000, authorities said.
The Powell County Sheriff’s Office has charged a local handyman with stealing the silver, killing the mother and son in a violent fight after being confronted about the theft, and then disposing of their bodies and other evidence in remote locations around Deer Lodge. To obscure the bodies’ location outdoors at a dump site, he covered them with sticks and logs, police say. ... The bar of gold, assuming it ever existed, has yet to be found.
Charged with two counts of deliberate homicide Tuesday was David Wayne Nelson — formerly a “person of interest” — was charged Tuesday with two counts of deliberate homicide. Authorities say Nelson has confessed to the crime. He has a court appearance scheduled for Jan. 5.
David Wayne Nelson. (Montana Department of Corrections)
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