Mary Ann Bier

Before dawn on August 7, 2017, a family member received an unsettling message from the couple's home on Jonathon Road west of Powell, Wyoming: come by, the man said, and look for a note he'd left behind. The request felt wrong enough that the family member called 911 instead, sending sheriff's deputies and an ambulance racing toward the rural residence. By the time help arrived, the scene was already unfolding into the kind of quiet catastrophe that leaves a community trying to understand how a ...

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