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| Ell | Sep 5 2007, 07:53 AM Post #1 |
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Bones found in house may be animal bones By Tribune Staff Great Falls homeowners thought they had found 30-year-old pieces of a woman’s body in their bathroom on Monday, but today, it turns out, the bones are likely those of an animal. The bones were discovered at 1305 7th Ave. N., the home of Doreen and Allen Lemire. ADVERTISEMENT Photos of the bones were sent to the Montana State Crime Lab, said Great Falls Police Sgt. Glen Stinar, and the bones were in the process of being transferred. However, Stinar reported that on Tuesday afternoon, a detective had heard preliminary reports that they were just animal bones. However, a spokeswoman for the Montana Department of Justice, which oversees the crime lab, said they hadn’t seen the bones yet. “At this point the lab hasn’t been overly involved,” said Judy Beck, public information officer. The story is all too eerie, and the bones of a woman being discovered where her husband lived when she was reported missing in 1975 seemed like a cold case being resolved. Leslee Reynolds Larson has been missing since 1975, when her husband Dennis Larson reported to police that while picnicking at the Prickly Pear Creek in Lewis and Clark County, his wife got swept up in a current and drowned. Her body was never recovered and it is unclear if she was Larson’s first or second wife.Larson was convicted in Maine in 1987 of killing his third wife, Kathy Frost Larson, by pushing her off an 80-foot cliff at Acadia National Park. He was serving a 50-year sentence in the Maine State Prison and died there in 2000. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs...NEWS01/70904015 |
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| ELL | Sep 5 2007, 09:59 AM Post #2 |
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http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.../709050302/1002 Cold case revived with discovery of bones By KRISTEN CATES Tribune Staff Writer Great Falls homeowners may have stumbled onto the 30-year-old bones of a murdered woman while remodeling their bathroom on Monday. The bones were discovered at 1305 7th Ave. N., now the home of Doreen and Allen Lemire — but then a vacant lot next door to the home of a man later convicted of a different murder. ADVERTISEMENT Photos of the bones were sent to the Montana State Crime Lab, said Great Falls Police Sgt. Glen Stinar, and the bones were in the process of being transferred. Lt. Rob Moccasin, the detective on the case, said police haven't yet determined if these are the bones of Leslee Reynolds Larson, a woman reported missing in 1975 by her husband Dennis Larson. "First of all, we've got to find out what kind of bones they were," Moccasin said. "We don't want to get all excited because we don't know yet if they are human or animal." Leslee Reynolds Larson has been missing since 1975, when her husband Dennis Larson reported to police that while picnicking at the Prickly Pear Creek in Lewis and Clark County, his wife got swept up in a current and drowned. Her body was never recovered, and it is unclear if she was Larson's first or second wife. Larson was convicted in Maine in 1987 of killing his third wife, Kathy Frost Larson, by pushing her off an 80-foot cliff at Acadia National Park. A year after his Maine conviction, according to Great Falls Tribune archives, authorities in Cascade County searched the properties at 1301 and 1303 7th Ave. N. where Larson had lived in the 1970s. In October 2000, according to archives, authorities in Lewis and Clark County charged Dennis Larson for Leslee Larson's murder after he admitted to a state investigator that he had pushed her into the stream near Wolf Creek in June of 1975. He was serving a 50-year sentence in the Maine State Prison. On New Year's Eve of 2000, Larson committed suicide by jumping out of a third-floor prison window onto rocks. Doreen Lemire and her husband were convinced when they recovered these bones on Monday they were those of a human. The bones were discovered after they moved a vanity cabinet out of their bathroom and discovered an approximately 3-foot-wide hole in the concrete. She said they bought the house in February and had heard rumors that a woman might be buried there. "We had been waiting to find her," Doreen Lemire said. "It's just too weird." The dirt underneath the vanity was rich and dark, unlike the rest of the soil around the house, and she said she dug up 12 or 13 pieces of bone — some of which she thinks were teeth and an arm bone. "I don't know what half of the stuff is that I pulled out," she said. The duplex that was 1301 and 1303 7th Ave. N is now gone and the house at 1305 7th Ave. N., which she said used to be a garage, is all that remains on the corner lot. In 1988, people living in the duplex reported seeing the ghost of a woman. On Tuesday, Doreen Lemire said her 18-year-old son had said he had seen visions before of a woman in a white dress. For now, though, she has been told by detectives to keep away from the hole, because it is being treated as a crime scene. Reach Tribune Staff Writer Kristen Cates at 791-1463 or kcates@greatfallstribune.com. |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 08:14 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.ghost-mysteries.com/forum/index...2&mode=threaded Article published Sep 6, 2007 Ghost sightings haunt residence By KRISTEN CATES Tribune Staff Writer Kristafer Lock has tried to forget seeing a translucent-like woman in a white nightgown walking the hallways of his mom’s house. But he’s not ruling anything out at this point. On Monday, his mom Doreen Lemire and her husband Allen discovered what could possibly be the bones of a woman beneath their bathroom at 1305 7th Ave. N. The woman may have been killed by her husband 32 years ago. Police have not determined if they are animal bones or human bones. But Leslee Reynolds Larson went missing in 1975, her husband Dennis Larson lived on the same lot, he was later convicted in Maine of killing his third wife, and he admitted in 2000 to killing Leslee. That has 18-year-old Lock thinking seriously about what he saw. He described the ghost as a woman in a white dress with a rose print. She would appear in the hallway between the living room and kitchen, where the bathroom is located, too. Sometimes he would see her outside. “I try not to pay too much attention to her,” Lock said. “I don’t believe in spirits; I don’t believe in ghosts.” But he’s not the only one that has supposedly seen a female ghost hovering in the house. For years, people have described the house at 1305 7th Ave. N., as well as the duplex at 1301-1303 7th Ave. N., as haunted. According to city directories, Dennis Larson lived in the 1301 duplex until sometime in 1979 or 1980. Jody McCurdy lived in the Lemire’s house from 1998 to 2002. Her son Malachi Dusek was just 5 years old around that time and often told her of seeing a woman in a white nightgown walking through the house, holding a purse. When on Wednesday, she read the news of human bones possibly being discovered in her old rental home, McCurdy said she “went numb.” “We had so many problems in that house,” McCurdy said. She had a mice problem and at one point in time believed there was carbon monoxide poisoning in the house as well. She also had two miscarriages while living in the house and one premature baby died. “I just figured it was like a curse,” she said. The mice, she said, used to come from a hole underneath the sink in the bathroom – the same place the Lemires found the bones on Monday when remodeling their bathroom. “The smell just was like decaying wood,” McCurdy said. Malachi, now 11, said he once followed the woman who appeared in a night gown from one of the bedrooms toward the living room, thinking it was his mom. When he yelled for his mom, Malachi said she responded that she was in the bathroom. “I was 100 percent sure I’d seen something,” Malachi said. “I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.” After Dennis Larson was arrested and charged with murdering his wife in Maine in 1988, police in Great Falls once again opened the investigation into Leslee’s death and searched the duplex where the Larsons had lived. Pat Goodover owned the duplex for a few years in the 1980s when that investigation was initiated. He said at that time, some of the tenants reported seeing a ghost and that those tenants who had dogs would never go near the dirt-floor basement. “This was your classic haunted house,” Goodover said. “Whether you believed in ghosts or not – something was there.” He described the duplex as two separate townhouses with a main floor, second floor and a basement that was shared between the two. It may have been a single-family residence at one point. The duplex was razed in 2005 and is now one big corner lot owned by the Lemires, according to city records. Goodover said the house that is now 1305 7th Ave. N was a garage at the time and was owned by a different person. In the west-facing unit, there was once a fireplace where Goodover said police searched for clues. On the east-facing unit, he said there was a door that led to nowhere, but had scratch marks like someone was trying to get inside the house. It was like déjà vu to Goodover when he heard news of bones being found – even though the bones haven’t been identified and Goodover tries not to believe in ghosts. “I don’t have an opinion on that,” he said. “There are things out there we don’t know.” Reach Tribune Staff Writer Kristen Cates at 791-1463 or kcates@greatfallstribune.com. http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs...1/70906003/1002 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 4 2008, 08:18 PM Post #4 |
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Lewis and Clark County authorities charged a former Great Falls man in a 25-year-old murder case in October. According to court documents, Dennis R. Larson confessed to investigators that he pushed his wife, Leslee Gail Reynolds, into Prickly Pear Creek near Wolf Creek and let her drown. Her body has never been found. The admission came during an interview with Larson at the Maine State Penitentiary in September. Following his wife’s death, Larson collected a $20,000 life insurance policy he had taken out on her. Larson is currently serving out a 50-year sentence in Maine for pushing his third wife off a cliff in Acadia National Park in 1987. Larson had taken out a life insurance policy on his third wife, also. Local court officials are in the process of extradicting Larson from Maine — a process the defendant is fighting. http://www.helenair.com/articles/2000/12/3...eadline/1a2.txt |
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| PorchlightUSA | Oct 3 2008, 08:39 AM Post #5 |
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