A federal judge recently sentenced two men for their roles in the murder of an Ethete man in June 2014, according to a news release from the Wyoming U.S. Attorney's Office.
U.S. Marshals pulled the sobbing mother of Jaymes Leo Whiteplume away from her son in a last embrace Thursday after he pleaded guilty in federal court to murdering a man on the Wind River Indian Reservation last year.
Whiteplume's plea concluded the federal government's prosecution of three main defendants and three accessories-after-the-fact to the brutal stabbing death of Jared Dean Little White
The U.S. Attorney's Office has filed new charges against the defendants in a stabbing death on the Wind River Indian Reservation last year.
In the second superseding indictment, prosecutors added to the original charges that, if convicted, already carried life sentences for Susan Lynn Chippewa, Jaymes Leo Whiteplume and Byron Robert Spoonhunter for their involvement in the death of Jared Dean Litt