Bigfork Homicide Involving Wheelchair Athlete Revisited on TV
Flathead Beacon Headlines
September 01, 2010 1:58 PM
The day after Christmas in 1997, a man named Larry Streeter was found murdered in Bigfork. The killing was traced to brothers Ted and Jesse Ernst. Ted, 19 at the time, was a paraplegic and one of the top wheelchair racing athletes in the nation. The bizarre story of the Ernsts' Christmas-day crime spree, which ended in Streeter's murder, was chronicled by Sports Illustrated. Click here to read the story. It's fascinating and has quotes from folks we know well, such as Jim Dupont, a Flathead County commissioner who…
