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In 2022, 418 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Montana. This is 50 percent higher than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in Montana in 2022 was 10 percent higher than the United States average.

In 2022, 46 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Montana were not solved. This is 11 percentage points lower than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Helena
  • Population:  1,042,520
  • Area:  147,040 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  16th
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Featured Montana Missing Cases

Lillya Adamson

Missing: Mar 24, 2023
Lillya Adamson, a 15-year-old girl, has been missing from Billings, Montana since March 24, 2023. He ...Read More

Ellen Sloan

Missing: Apr 16, 2005
Ellen Beth Sloan, a 52-year-old woman from Polson, Montana, has been missing since April 16, 2005. S ...Read More

Monte Swanson

Missing: Sep 15, 2014
Monte Swanson, a 24-year-old man, was last seen on September 15, 2014, after leaving Missoula, Monta ...Read More

William Drake

Missing: Jun 29, 2012
William Clarence Drake, a 32-year-old man, was last seen on June 28, 2012, at his home located three ...Read More

Benjamin Earls

Missing: Aug 02, 2020
Benjamin Earls, a 42-year-old man from Eureka, Montana, was last seen on August 2, 2020, under unusu ...Read More

Daniel Campbell

Missing: Apr 06, 1991
Daniel Lynn Campbell, 41 years old at the time, disappeared on April 6, 1991, after being dropped of ...Read More

Leslee Larson

Missing: Jun 10, 1975
Leslee Larson, a 20-year-old woman, went missing on June 10, 1975, while on a mushroom-picking trip ...Read More

Timothy Elston

Missing: Nov 05, 2021
Timothy Curtis Elston, a 40-year-old man from Kalispell, Montana, was last seen on November 5, 2021. ...Read More

Sonya Reid

Missing: Sep 24, 2023
Sonya Reid, a 55-year-old woman from Browning, Montana, was last seen on September 24, 2023. Details ...Read More

Ivy Leinen

Missing: Mar 14, 2010
Ivy Marie Leinen, an 11-year-old girl from Poplar, Montana, went missing on March 14, 2010. She was ...Read More
Featured Montana Murder Cases

Bertha Scott

Murdered: May 02, 1990
On May 2, 1990, 86-year-old Bertha Scott was found murdered in her room at the Riverside Health Care ...Read More

Cynthia Paulus

Murdered: Nov 06, 2001
On November 6, 2001, Cynthia Paulus, a 71-year-old woman, was one of three victims murdered in a gru ...Read More

Kenneth Cheetham

Murdered: Sep 11, 1991
Kenneth Cheetham, age 60, was found murdered along with his wife, Iva LaRue, on September 11, 1991, ...Read More

Iva Cheetham

Murdered: Sep 11, 1991
Iva Cheetham, along with her husband Kenneth Cheetham, was found murdered on September 11, 1991, in ...Read More

Dorothy Harris

Murdered: Nov 06, 2001
On November 6, 2001, Dorothy Harris, age 62, along with two other women, was brutally murdered insid ...Read More

Clifford Lee Nelson

Murdered: Sep 30, 1996
On September 30, 1996, Clifford "Cliff" Nelson, a beloved teacher at Seeley Lake Elementary and a se ...Read More

Brenda Patch

Murdered: Nov 06, 2001
On November 6, 2001, Brenda Patch, a 44-year-old hairdresser, was murdered in a violent attack at th ...Read More

Nancy Lagerquist

Murdered: Jul 01, 1990
Nancy Lagerquist, an 87-year-old woman, was found murdered on July 1, 1990, in Missoula, Montana. Sh ...Read More

Kaysera Stops Pretty Places

Murdered: Aug 29, 2019
Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, an 18-year-old Indigenous woman from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne tri ...Read More