The Murder of Dustin Kjersem

Earlier last month was supposed to be a fun camping trip, later to be a crime scene.  Dustin - a 35 year old man - set up camp on thursday, october 10 in the moose creek area, about 35 miles soouth of Bozeman. He was planning to spend the weekend there with his girlfriend, but then his girfriend found him lying dead at the campsite. At first, when his girlfriend saw this, she thaught it could have been a bear attack that caused this because of how bad the wounds were, but later autopsys say otherwise. The man was murdered. The killer removed all of the items from the campsite that he thaught could tie him to the murder. One thing that the killer miseed is a beer can that he had previously drank from. This man, through DNA testing of the saliva on the can, was later known to be recognized as a 41 year old man named Daren Abbey.

 

Daren  admitted to commiting the crime, and has four other arrests for DUI, raising his offense to the felony level. The ivestigation is continuing for what his motives were, if any. 

 

What are your thoughts?

Do you have any questions?

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5175086/arrest-in-killing-montana-camper-bear-attack-ruled-out

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  • I don't understand why Daren Abbey would even want to kill someone so innocent and not hurting anyone. I have a few questions if I could ask him. Why would you want to kill him? How much did you have to drink that night. Did you have something against Dustin? Where did his girlfriend go? Was this planned?

  • I can't believe that they could figure out who the murderer was in this case. Usually in many other cases they can't figure out who commited the murder. I am wondering why Daren killed Dustin and how he knew that he was going to be at the campsite.

  • Daren  admitted to commiting the crime, and has four other arrests for DUI, raising his offense to the felony level. The ivestigation is continuing for what his motives were, if any. 

     

    What are your thoughts? I have never heard of this or anything like this happening. I think it would be interesting to find out the motives because it sounds like Dustin didn't even know Daren. The killing seems really random, so I'd like to hear what caused him to do it.

     
  • I believe that there are so many other cases that havent been discovered. I think a bear attacking him wouldve been possible especially since they are populated in that area and are very deadly creatures. 

  • What are your thoughts? I have never heard of this or anything like this happening. I think it would be interesting to find out the motives because it sounds like Dustin didn't even know Daren. The killing seems really random, so I'd like to hear what caused him to do it.

  • I think it is crazy how many other cases could be similar to this, but have never been discovered. I wonder if they would have caught him is they had never found the beer. I wonder why he did what he did, what was his purpose?

  • I do beileve that it could be possiable for a bear to have attackted him a lot of bears in that area are very aggressive and have a hiagher attack rate them the common bear does.  My question is based off of all the little evadnce do you think that will find the person if it was a person

  • What are your thoughts? I have never heard of this case but it is very interesting. I think It wasn't an animal because it wouldn't of killed anyone and did all of that. They possibly were under and influence of so sore of drugs or alcohol. 

  • What are your thoughts? I don't understand why Daren killed Dustin Kjersem and I wonder how bad Dustin's wounds were. I don't know why people even kill each other in the first place but this is a terrible story and the fact that it happened only a month ago is crazy. I believe Daren should be put in jail for life or death porol for his actions. 

  • I honestly do think that it is possible a bear could have done such a thing. Black bears tend to be very aggressive escpecially during mating season, and victims of black bears have similar injuries as those given by small hatchets. My question to you would be if it's possible that someone could have hallucinated such events given the beer can found?

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