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Boundary County couple arrested in Yaak murder
August 25, 2017
Ezra and Sarah Skinner
A husband and wife from Boundary County have been arrested on murder charges in connection with the death of a former Lincoln County man.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Ezra Skinner, 28, and Sarah Carpenter Skinner, 27, are being held without bail on deliberate homicide charges. They are accused of killing Travis Gillet, 31, sometime between January 13-16 in the Yaak.

A former resident of Libby and Troy, Gillet was reported missing from the Sandpoint area on January 14. He was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds January 16 in the upper Yaak.

Detectives from Lincoln County and deputies from the Boundary County Sheriff's Office worked together to facilitate the arrest of the Skinners, who were taken into custody without incident Thursday morning in Boundary County.
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