Authorities still try to solve 12-year-old Turcotte case

Staff and wire report

DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — The Ramsey County sheriff says authorities are still trying to solve the slaying of a Montana man 12 years ago.

The body of 19-year-old Russell Turcotte, of Wolf Point, Montana, was found in a rural tree grove in the eastern North Dakota county on Nov. 5, 2002. Authorities said the body had likely been there for months. Turcotte had last been seen in July 2002 at a truck stop in Grand Forks.

Turcotte was returning from a Rainbow Coalition gathering in Minnesota to which he had hitchhiked. He called his mother in Wolf Point the evening of July 13, 2002,...