This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. According to the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), both inmates and correctional officers have been falling ill to the disease, with only 8.7 per cent of the prison population and 23.3 per cent of staff fully vaccinated. (Copyright (c) 2021 The Associated Press. “He never went into detail about it, but he took responsibility for that,” Ward said. He had filed for bankruptcy in early 1983 and was the beneficiary of homeowners’ insurance and his wife’s life insurance, which totaled $250,000, according to Montana Supreme Court records.ĭuring his trial, experts testified that Donna Atlas was dead before the fire started, likely due to strangulation, and that an accelerant may have been poured on her body, court records said.Ītlas had denied killing his wife, even appealing his conviction, but admitted to it during his confession at the Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby, Detective James Ward said. He fantasized about her and acted upon it.”Ītlas told investigators he “found God,” in prison, Dutton said, and “he wanted to clear that off his conscience.”Ītlas is in prison after being convicted of deliberate homicide and arson in the death of his wife, Donna, in a July 1983 house fire north of Helena. “This was cold, this was calculated, and we’re not giving all the details of this gruesome homicide,” Dutton said. For the second time in two weeks, an officer has been assaulted by an inmate at the jail in North Carolina’s largest city, according to the sheriff’s office. He left the barrel in the area while he went to meeting and then returned later that night, disposing of her body by throwing the barrel off the York Bridge into the Missouri River northeast of Helena.Ītlas said he believed the barrel broke open when it hit a bridge support, Metcalf said. After teaching his lessons, he said he drove the barrel out to the Lakeside area on Hauser Lake, where he used a knife and hatchet to dismember her body before putting her remains back in the barrel. Depending on the facility, incarcerated individuals may be able to respond electronically, view and print your message, and view photo attachments.
JPay’s email service is a fast, feature-rich way to correspond with your incarcerated loved one. He went into her apartment, strangled her to death and sexually assaulted her, Detective Jess Metcalf said.Ītlas reported he put her body in a barrel, put it in his car and drove to a hangar where he taught flying lessons. For staying in touch, nothing beats the speed and convenience of email. 17, 1968, and said there was a water leak in her apartment. All Turnkey Corrections sites are available for use. Most of the features available on are supported by this application. Atlas said he called Dorrington on the morning of Feb. Inmate Canteen is now mobile Deposit funds, send picture mail, send messages, buy canteen items and purchase phone cards to an inmate's account from any of our supported facilities across the United States.