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Arie Arlynn Lee, 37, was killed at her remote log cabin in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest on June 7, 2015, along with her three children: 5-year-old Augustine, 4-year-old Woodrow, and 16-month-old Arie. The family lived off the grid in Deer Lodge; Arie was remembered by friends as outgoing, kind, a former high school soccer player, and a devoted mother who involved her children in community theater and town activities.

Authorities say the murders followed a domestic dispute and that Arie’s husband and the children’s father, 59-year-old Michael Augustine Bournes, shot Arie inside the cabin, shot the two boys outside and brought their bodies back inside, then set the cabin on fire before killing himself. An acquaintance was called by Bournes after the killings and alerted law enforcement; first responders found the burning cabin and the five bodies.

The case was ruled a murder-suicide with Bournes identified as the sole suspect. Does anyone have information about the family’s life in Deer Lodge or the events leading up to that June morning?