Cold Cases in Montana
ColdCaseIndex documents 7 cases in Montana, dated 1985 to 2018. 4 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Janet Lee Lucas (formerly "Christy Crystal Creek") (1985) and the most recent is Jermain Charlo (2018).
- Unsolved 4 (57%)
- Partly resolved 2 (29%)
- Solved or convicted 1 (14%)
Homicide clearance in Montana, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
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Jermain Charlo
Jermain Charlo, a 23-year-old mother of two and enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, was last seen around midnight on June 15-16, 2018, on surveillance video in an alley behind the Badlander bar in…
Ashley Loring HeavyRunner
Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, a 20-year-old Blackfeet Community College student, vanished from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana, in June 2017.
Hanna Harris
Hanna Harris, a 21-year-old Northern Cheyenne tribal member, disappeared on July 4, 2013, in Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Her body was found four days later near the rodeo grounds.
Barbara Bolick
Barbara Bolick, 55, of Corvallis, Montana, disappeared on July 18, 2007 while hiking near Bear Creek Overlook in the Bitterroot Mountains outside Victor.
Patricia Bernadette Meehan
Patricia Meehan, 37, walked away on foot into the Montana prairie after causing a head-on car crash near Circle on April 20, 1989, and was never seen again.
Wayne Nance Victims
Wayne Nance, a Missoula furniture mover, is suspected by investigators of at least six killings in western Montana between 1974 and 1985.
Janet Lee Lucas (formerly "Christy Crystal Creek")
Skeletal remains of a woman with two gunshot wounds to the skull were found by a bear hunter in the Crystal Creek drainage near Missoula, Montana, in September 1985.