No arrests have been made.
When Dustin Kjersem was found dead inside his tent at a remote Montana campsite with extensive injuries to his skull and body, it was initially reported as a possible bear mauling.
There have been previous grizzly bear attacks in the forests of southwestern Montana, but investigators found no evidence of any bears at Kjersem’s campsite. They’re now investigating 35-year-old Kjersem’s death as a homicide, after an autopsy revealed he was killed by multiple chop wounds inflicted by an unknown weapon.
No arrests have been made, and local authorities could not say if Kjersem’s killer posed a continuing public threat.
“But we do know that someone was out there who killed someone in a very heinous way,” Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer said at a press conference Wednesday.
