Carlene Dawn Brown was a 22-year-old mother and community volunteer from Worland, Wyoming who was killed in mid-August 2022. Born April 4, 2000, she was remembered by family and friends as active in school activities, a volunteer firefighter in Manderson, and devoted to her daughter Chelsea Rebecca Crait and the baby she was expecting, a son she planned to name Colin Michael Brown.

Deputies responding to a welfare check at a Highway 20 North property north of Worland forced entry on the morning of August 16 after no one answered a heavily barricaded front door. Inside they found two bodies. The Washakie County Coroner determined Carlene died of four gunshot wounds and that she was pregnant; her unborn son also died. The other body was identified as 50-year-old Donald M. Orr, described as Carlene’s boyfriend, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Investigators concluded Orr shot Carlene and then himself; no other suspects were identified.

A funeral was held August 22, 2022, at CrossPoint Baptist Church and Carlene was buried at Donald J. Ruhl Memorial Cemetery in Greybull with her unborn son Colin. Does anyone who knew Carlene or the family have information that could shed light on her final days?