“This was not a hastily committed crime; it was deliberate, calculated and cruel,” District Attorney John Kellner said.
A 41-year-old man was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison Thursday for kidnapping and murdering a woman in Douglas County,
In November of 2021, Childers worked with two other defendants — 46-year-old Shantel Edlund and 23-year-old Leo Vanbuskirk — to kidnap and murder 29-year-old Rachel Holeman, according to a“This was not a hastily committed crime; it was deliberate, calculated and cruel,” District Attorney John Kellner said in the release. “Casey Childers deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.”
Childers, Edlund and Vanbuskirk were arrested on Dec. 29, 2021 in Sheridan, Wyoming on unrelated drug charges and warrants while driving the sedan. Edlund took a plea deal in August of 2022, pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree murder in exchange for charges of first-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping being dropped from her case, according to court records.Vanbuskirk also took a plea deal, court records show.
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