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November 3, 2016 Newcastle, Wyoming Year 130 Week 44
Jury sees
autopsy & crime
lab reports
by Alexis Barker
NLJ Reporter
Five more witnesses pro-
vided testimony on October
25 in the Coroner's Inquest
looking into the death
of 60-year-old Richard
Campbell nearly a year
and a half ago, including
the coroner who recovered
the body from the scene 11
miles south of Newcastle
and ordered the autopsy that
was performed in Rapid
City.
Campbell County
Coroner Laura Sundstrom
explained to the jury what
she found when she arrived
at the single-wide trailer that
Campbell lived in on June
24, 2015, and provided them
with additional details from
the investigation that fol-
lowed.
Sundstrom, who also
serves as a Deputy Weston
County Coroner, said that
she was eating dinner with
her children in Gillette
when she was contacted to
respond to a call in Weston
County, and she made her
way to Newcastle and pro-
ceeded down Old Highway
85 to the home Campbell
was living in, which was
located on property owned
by Caroline Scoutt.
Sundstrom indicated that
she discovered Campbell in
his bedroom, and noted that
he was laying on his back at
the foot of his bed. He had
sunglasses on top of hi's head
and grass clippings covering
his legs that had sprinkled
from the front door to the
place where he lay.
"Obviously he was dead.
I could not see the wound at
the time though, there was
too much blood coming from
his nose and his mouth,"
recalled Sundstrom, who
recovered the body and had
it transported to Rapid City
for an autopsy. The autopsy
determined the cause of
death was a gunshot wound
to the head, and specified
that the entry wound was
in the roof of Campbell's
mouth.
According to Sundstrom,
autopsies are not a common
practice unless a death
occurs under suspicious cir-
cumstances, but she told the
jury that Campbell's death
seemed very suspicious to
her. Those suspicions only
increased when Scoutt
began calling her regarding
the productiQn of a death
certificate for Campbell.
"I was at my office in
Gillette. She called asking
when I would sign the death
-- See Inquest, Page 3
Detention Officer Jason Jenkins wheels Caroline Scour into Weston County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon. Scour is free on her
own recognizance but a second bond hearing has been set for November 9. (Andy McKay/NLJ)
by Bob Bonnar
NLJ Associate Publisher
An ongoing Coroner's Inquest being
held to determine the cause and manner of
the death of 60-year-old Weston County
resident Richard Campbell in June of 2015
has resulted in the arrest of the woman
whose relationship with Campbell has been
the primary focus of the inquest.
According to a press release from
Weston County Sheriff Bryan Colvard,
Weston County resident Caroline Scoutt,
64, was arrested by deputies shortly after
1 p.m. on Saturday after a witness subpoe-
naed to testify at the inquest claimed to
have been threatened by Scoutt.
"The arrest comes after an interview and
investigation into a report of witness intim-
idation conducted by the Weston County
Sheriff's Office on October 28, 2016. After
an investigation of the allegations, the
information and evidence obtained was for-
warded to the Weston County Prosecuting
Attorney's Office, ultimately leading to the
issuance of a warrant for Scoutt's arrest,"
Colvard wrote in the release.
He indicated that Scoutt was arrested
at her residence at 1074 Old Highway 85
south of Newcastle without incident, and
charged with "influencing, intimidating or
impeding a witness."
According to :he arrest warrant, Scoutt's
alleged actions are a violation of Wyoming
Statute 6-5-305, and constitute a felony
punishable by imprisonment for not more
than ten years and a fine of not more than
$5,000 or both.
According to an Affidavit of Probable
Cause submitted to Weston County Circuit
Court by Sgt. Dan Bush, the investigation
into Scoutt's alleged witness intimidation
began approximately 24 hours prior to
her arrest, when Bush conducted a tape
recorded interview at the Law Enforcement
Center with David and Kimberly Fisher
in reference to threats they claimed were
made by Scoutt.
According to the Affidavit, Kimberly
Fisher told Bush that she received a threat-
ening phone call from Scoutt last Tuesday,
October 25, after she returned home from
-- See Arrest, Page 3
by Alexis Barker
NLJ Reporter
As operators of the historic
4W Ranch in Weston County,
Bob and Jean Harshbarger
have been actively involved
with the county's long running
dispute with the U.S. Forest
Service over prairie dogs in the
-- See Prairie Dogs, Page 7
Unemployment
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by Bob Bonnar
NLJ Associate Publisher
For the second month in a row, unemployment dropped signifi-
cantly in Weston County, according to a report released last week by
the Research and Planning Division of the Wyoming Department of
Workforce Services.
In its monthly employment news release, DWS reported that the
state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell from 5.5 percent
in August to 5.3 percent in September, and the non-adjusted rate for
Wyoming was logged at 4.6 percent. That's a tenth of a percentage
point lower than the 4.7 percent unemployment reported for Weston
Hospital staff
hopes to move
in next month
by Alexis Barker
NLJ Reporter
Construction at Weston
Monday afternoon two blocks of Main Street were closed offto traffic so the area businesses could hold a Trunk or Treat. Clockwise County Health Services began
from top: The Mad Hatter, Bill HaileR, gets down on the little pumpkins level to let her pick candy out for herself. The elephant, in the late fall of 2015, and
Karen Terhune, waves a happy hello. The Cat in the Hat, Penny Loebs, shades her face from the setting sun. (Pam Penfield/NLJ) Phase One of the project is
-- See Unemployment, Page 7
nearing completion. Portions
of the first phase-- which
includes a new patient wing,
the front entrance, pharmacy
and lab, additional rooms for
manor residents and special
care unit in the manor-- will
be completed and inspected
before others, however, and the
patient wing and manor rooms
will be finished first.
It is anticipated that the front
-- See Hospital, Page 7
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