Montrose County

Within just four days, the county office officially reactivated the case dormant since nineteen ninety-seven.

The person assigned to take over was not anyone from the old Gunnison team, but Detective Erin Callaway from the Major Crimes Unit in Montrose County, a new generation investigator specializing in reevaluating old files with modern forensic standards.

Erin entered the Gunnison office on the morning of August eighteenth, twenty thirteen, with a coded lock file bag, laptop, and a cool, sharp gaze that was anything but arrogant.

She spent the first morning in the small conference room reviewing the entire summary file.

And now, technology had caught up.

The duty to place each piece in its rightful position belonged to her.

Over the next three days, Erin barely left the Montrose County analysis room, where modern forensic equipment ran continuously.

Here, the re-examination phase entered its most critical stage, cross-referencing three key data groups: the fabric, soil samples, and bone trauma indicators.

Donna Munson's body had been partially eaten by a bear or bears when it was found outside her home in Ouray County in southwestern Colorado on Friday, but Colorado Division of Wildlife officials couldn't immediately confirm what caused her death.

County Sheriff Dominic Matibi said Monday that an autopsy performed in neighboring Montrose County showed Munson had scratches and maul marks consistent with being attacked by a bear.

She had no signs of heart damage, ruling out the possibility that she died of a heart attack before being attacked.

Matibi said...

The two searched in and around Greeley looking for any sign of Mark, but when their search failed, they knew they needed to contact Mark Senior and let him know that his son was missing.

Mark Senior is a civil air patrol pilot and a member of the Montrose County Sheriff's Posse, so he used those connections to kickstart the search for his son.

Within hours of Mark being made aware that his son was missing, he'd contacted Mark Junior's phone provider, AT&T, to obtain his call records.

According to a Montrose press article written in September of 2008, Mark Junior made a voicemail check in the Bailey area on September 16th, the day that he disappeared.

This quickly led Mark Senior and the search party to Bailey, but there was one problem.

AT&T later told Mark Senior that after the voicemail check had been made, Mark Junior sent a text message from the Montrose County area, which led the search party back there.

Mark Senior later told the Montrose Press, "What they failed to tell me, there was also a text message that was sent later in the day from Flattop Tower.

AT&T admitted a text message had been sent.