Feds File New Charges Against Three Defendants In Reservation Killing

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 Little Whiteman.

In September, Chippewa, Whiteplume and Spoonhunber were charged with aiding and abetting first degree murder. They pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Casper in January.

But prosecutors filed a new indictment last week.

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