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Deep Creek Murders

4 Feb 1896 · 42.35° N, 114.66° W

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When
4 Feb 1896
Kind
Murder
Coordinates
42.35° N, 114.66° W
Description
unsolved 1896 murders of two sheepherders in Idaho, United States

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Deep Creek murders

Unsolved 1896 murders of two sheepherders in Idaho, United States

The Deep Creek murders were the culmination of a minor sheep war in the borderlands of Idaho and Nevada in 1896. On or about February 4, 1896, two Mormon sheepherders were killed by an unknown assailant while they were camping along a creek in what was then part of Cassia County, Idaho.

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