SIDNEY, Mont., Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Two Colorado men were being held in the disappearance of a Montana teacher who federal authorities said Sunday night they believe is dead.
Sidney police Chief Frank DiFonzo said Lester Waters Jr., 47, and Michael Keith Spell, 22, both of Parachute, Colo., are charged with aggravated kidnapping in the Jan. 7 disappearance of Sherry Arnold, a 43-year-old Sidney math teacher and mother of five, KULR-TV, Billings, Mont., reported. The suspects were jailed in Williston, N.D., the TV station said.
It was unclear why the pair were in the Sidney area or how Arnold died, KULR-TV said.
The FBI said in a release Sunday night they believed Arnold, whose body has not been found, is dead based on evidence gathered in recent days during the investigation into her disappearance.
Property owners in Williams, McKenzie and Mountrail counties in North Dakota were being asked to check shelterbelts and vacant farmsteads on their properties for any sign of her, but the FBI requested that people not conduct general searches for her.
The FBI said her body may be buried in a shelterbelt containing mature or rotted trees.
Arnold vanished after going out for a routine morning jog.
