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Failure to serve, protect: Victims recount rape, murder and how tribal cops failed them
Some on the Nez Perce Reservation, including former law-enforcement employees, believe investigators’ failures to listen to the women who reported Travis Ellenwood’s alleged abuse allowed his violence to become deadly.Â
Some on the Nez Perce Reservation, including former law-enforcement employees, believe investigators’ failures to listen to the women who reported Travis Ellenwood’s alleged abuse allowed his violence to become deadly.Â
Several women, including a former tribal cop, said Nez Perce police didn't respond effectively to multiple reports of violence against a man who went on to murder his girlfriend.Â
Kenton Beckstead said dysfunction in the Nez Perce tribal law enforcement came to a head when a 28-year-old tribal citizen named Bessie Blackeagle was murdered by her boyfriend.Â
Five former employees of the tribal justice system – including the system's former head – told Lee Enterprises that department administrators failed to enforce the law adequately or fairly on the reservation.Â
The 71-year-old was originally charged with two felony counts of misappropriating identifying information — obtain money and two misdemeanor c…
