Authorities in Montana say a 911 caller discovered his friend dead in a tent in what appeared to have been a fatal bear attack — but officials soon discovered the camper was actually the victim of a brutal murder.
Dustin Kjersem, 35, was found dead in his tent on Saturday morning along Moose Creek Road north of Big Sky, Montana, Gallatin County Sheriff Dan Springer said at news conference Wednesday. A friend who was supposed to have met Kjersem went searching for him when he didn’t show up as scheduled on Friday.
The friend ultimately discovered Kjersem’s body in a tent at a makeshift campsite and called 911, telling responders the death appeared to have been caused by a bear attack, the sheriff’s office said.
Yeah I don’t think you can mimic how a bear would kill someone.
*Headline wasn’t what I read it as, the actual friend did find him like that and thought it was a bear attack.
Bears will usually drag you out of the tent and start eating you in the open. They don’t usually kill to kill. They kill by consuming.
PSA: Bear attacks are incredibly rare. Most attacks are “get away from me and my cubs”. They do not see humans as food and do not hunt humans, those incredibly rare cases are sick or starving bears.
When I go camping I bring spray for the wildlife and a .45 ACP pistol for the humans. What makes camping out there great is also what makes it dangerous.
I always slept with my S&W Governor
I don’t know why but it reminds me of a case of a couple murdered when they were camping, with the killer leaving their camera behind, with mysterious black and white photo of some interior made after the last photo of the couple made in the bed of their truck. I can’t remember their names now.
