Lincoln-Blaine County ID Archives News.....Dog Killed in Bizarre Murder Is Found by Lincoln Officials November 17, 1950
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Times News November 17, 1950
  SHOSHONE, Nov. 17-Statements on how Alwilda Reems, 14, and her companion 
Myrle Williams, 23, killed her father, Leroy Reems, 57, north of Richfield last 
month, were corroborated Friday through the mute testimony of a dead dog.
  The two persons, both charged with the first degree murder in the death of 
the Manhattan, Mont., man, previously had told officials how Williams had 
killed Miss Reems' dog after the animal had protested the death of Reems. The 
dead animal, they said, was dumped out of the automobile and left beside the 
road.
  Howard E. Adkins, Lincoln county prosecutor, who has been conducting a search 
for the dead animal, found the dog Monday. Through pictures of the dead animal, 
Williams Friday identified the animal as the one he had killed after Reems had 
been shot.
  The location of the animal's body also tends to definitely establish 
jurisdiction in the crime, Adkins said. The body was found in Lincoln county, 
Reems' body was discovered in Blaine county, and preliminary investigations 
into the murder were conducted by Blaine county officials.
  Following the gun shot death of Reems, both Miss Reems and Williams said in 
their statements to Adkins, the dog snarled and growled at them. Since they 
were carrying Reem's body in the automobile with them they decided it would be 
best to get rid of the animal.
  Williams said he took the small dog from the car so that its death would not 
be witnessed by the Reems girl, and beat it to death with an automobile jack 
handle. Although he wanted to spare her the sight of her pet being killed, both 
Williams and Miss Reems have admitted that her father was seated beside her 
when the bullet entered his head. Miss Reems also claims that it was she who 
planned her father's murder.
  Miss Reems also told officials that she and her father had a joint bank 
account in a north Mont. bank and that they owned stock jointly. Adkins has 
been following leads but accidently discovered the funds or stocks with their 
names.

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