Guns, Explosives & A Lion

Duchesne sits in Duchesne County in the north-eastern corner of Utah, a small high-desert town of about 1,800 people, two hours from Salt Lake City and six from Denver. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He also kept a full-grown African lion called Sinbad, later renamed Simba, which he took into town, wrestled in public and planned to put in films.

In the 1990s the ranch employed June Flood and Rex Tanner, a couple who lived together in the backwoods and did part-time ranch work. Tanner was about eleven years younger than Flood, who was in her late fifties. Tanner injured his leg in an accident with a horse and stopped working there. details of the account remain covered until revealed He reported the theft to the police, who could see that nothing of value had gone, and for months he complained about the pair, confronted them in public and blamed them whenever anything went missing. Neighbours called Flood and Tanner a hard-living, hard-working couple, and there were rumours of drugs and methamphetamine manufacture at their place. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

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They went to the house where Flood and Tanner lived. this part of the story is covered for now Flood and Tanner refused to leave. details of the account remain covered until revealed He drove to a nearby lake and told them to walk towards the back of the truck. There he shot Flood twice with a pistol from the truck, then shot Tanner three times in the chest and torso. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

Back at the ranch they worked out how to dispose of the bodies. this part of the story is covered for now They collected several bags of ammonium nitrate and pieces of dynamite from the cave, returned to the lake, piled the explosives around and on the bodies, laid the stolen rifle on top and set it off. details of the account remain covered until revealed The next day he came back with a bulldozer and worked the site until the machine ran out of fuel. Bags of remains, one said to contain Tanner's leg and a shoe, were taken to the ranch dump and burned. More body parts were gathered, put in a barrel away from the first site and blown up again. Brunier later found a large portion of Tanner's torso with the head still attached, said nothing about it and spent the next three nights in the woods with a rifle, afraid he would be killed too.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A few days later a friend of Flood's noticed the couple were missing and called the police. Sergeant Wallace Hendrix searched their home and found it in disarray, with bloodstained furniture and bedding and a pair of excrement-stained trousers in the bathroom. Outside, Brunier was waiting, visibly frightened. He chased the sergeant for a business card, then arranged through his daughter to give a statement. He handed over the bottle of rubbing alcohol used to clean Flood's house and a letter his daughter had written, setting out what he had seen.

this part of the story is covered for now On 4 November a tip led police to search the banks of the Coeur d'Alene River in Idaho for the dumped weapon. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it A ranch hand disarmed her. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

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details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The court found none of them credible, calling the brother's evidence flabbergasting, preposterous and bizarre. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The cases failed on procedural grounds, and the sheriff kept three weapons and a Pierre Cardin tote bag as evidence, saying they were also linked to at least two other cold murder cases. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it