During her weekly crime report on Friday, Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst told KGVO’s Talk Back audience that homicides have more than doubled over the past few years.
After Staryal Dedrick Johnston, the man accused of strangling his wife to death in front of his children early in September, entered a plea of ‘not guilty’ in Missoula District Court last week, many listeners asked why such defendants almost always enter such a plea.