Trouble In Paradise

Each summer, students and Bozemanites flock to a section of the Madison River that is mostly shallow and calm. They pile into inner tubes and enjoy a meandering float. On that Sunday, Kroon shared the river with, of all people, Miller and LeBrum. She saw them floating and laughing with a gaggle of young women and then, five days later, she saw their pictures in the newspaper and read stories describing the murder. They had allegedly killed a man, she thought, and then floated a beautiful stretch of a magnificent river.

"They should be giving those scholarships to farm boys," Kroon says.

Her feelings, which is to say the feelings of many in Bozeman, aren't likely to change soon.