Jennifer Kocher

Cowboy State Daily • 3rd February 2024

Nearly 40 Years After Wyoming Man Went Missing, Family Copes With Proof Of His Death

Authorities tentatively confirm that a death certificate discovered by a Canadian genealogist and former journalist in November is that of Roque “Rocky” Najera, who disappeared from Rawlins in 1985 and has been missing for nearly four decades.

13th December 2023

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The Wyoming Truth • 23rd October 2023

Parents of Missing Torrington Woman Request Help Finding Their Daughter

Azia Diane Saldana left her parents’ home in Torrington in the late afternoon on Aug. 26 and never returned.

The Wyoming Truth • 16th August 2023

Over a Year Later, the Question Remains: What Happened to Chris Mauk?

Over a Year Later, the Question Remains: What Happened to Chris Mauk? Gillette volunteer investigators hit the ground to look for missing Laramie man

Yellow Scene Magazine • 23rd March 2023

Survivor Helps Put Sex Trafficker Behind Bars in One of the Region’s Biggest Trafficking Busts (Part 1)

By Jennifer Kocher Special to the Wyoming Truth (AP Storyshare) The first time Breahannah Leary met Penny (Gallegos) King in her Denver office in May 2015, she asked her father to wait in the car with the engine running. Leary didn’t foresee the conversation going well, if at all, and wanted a quick getaway. At the time, Leary was out on bond

The Wyoming Truth • 25th July 2022

THE SEARCH FOR IRENE: Gillette Group Ramps up Efforts to Find Missing Kenyan as Her 33rd Birthday Passes With No Answers

GILLETTE, Wyo.—Stacy Koester apologized for her messy car. A squashed can of Bang energy drink and empty plastic water bottle were strewn on the driver’s side floor. A gas receipt was tucked into the center console beside an open box of light blue surgical gloves and half pack of cigarettes.

The Wyoming Truth • 28th June 2022

Eastern Shoshone Father Seeks Justice for Deceased Children

Day, who is Eastern Shoshone and lives in Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation, recently launched the “Dawn and Jeff I won’t be Silent” foundation in memory of his two deceased children. In 2012, Dawn was found floating in Morton Creek in Fremont County.

The Teton Truth • 9th January 2022

Is It Time for Wyoming to Raise Minimum Wage to Help Workers Survive? — The Teton Truth

Cowboy State Daily • 23rd December 2021

Gordon Commutes Sentence Of Woman Convicted In 1996 Kidnapping

A woman who has spent more than half her life in prison for her role in

WyoFile • 7th October 2021

Whistleblowers: Workplace discrimination and retaliation plague Wyo National Guard

If the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s decisions and the testimony of multiple women are any indication, the Wyoming National Guard has a problem. Over the last decade the EEOC — the federal authority charged with investigating employer discrimination — has put the Wyoming National Guard on notice three times for workplace hostility, including the mishandling of sexual harassment. Whistleblowers say the documented complaints are only the tip of the iceberg and that rather than addres

Cowboy State Daily • 26th July 2021

Daughter Still Searching for Missing Riverton Woman Three Decades Later

County 17 • 28th January 2020

Sage Valley Student Takes Plea Deal

One handgun was in his locker, the other under his waistband. The Sage Valley eighth-grader’s plan, he later explained to authorities, was to shoot nine people. A teacher he didn’t like and some of his classmates who he said made fun of him and made him angry.

Cowboy State Daily • 25th February 2021

Wyoming’s Missing People: Part I

All of Wyoming’s 23 sheriffs object to a bill designed to limit the ability of the

County 17 • 21st February 2021

Missing People of Wyoming: Part II

Dave Wolfskill is a guy who lives up to his name. A former policeman/detective turned private investigator, Wolfskill has devoted the latter part of his career to tracking down missing people. Now retired, he does it on his own time. Old habits die hard, he joked, and now, he continues working with a dedicated group of private investigators, volunteers and bikers at We Help the Missing, a non-profit that he co-founded with Utah detective, Marki Davis. Sitting at the Red Rock Café in downtown H

County 17 • 8th October 2020

Part I: Operating in the Shadows

There’s a perception that human trafficking is a big-city problem that doesn’t happen in rural states like Wyoming. The truth is, however, that its ruralness and connectivity to major interstates makes the state prime for underground activity as a growing number of human trafficking cases are reported every year.

County 17 • 14th October 2020

Part II: Debunking the Myths

This is part II of a multi-part series. Part I – Operating in the Shadows | Part II – Debunking the Myths | Part III – Grooming Victims | Part IV – Supply and Demand One glaring misnomer when it comes to human trafficking is that victims are snatched out of malls or shopping center parking lots by cartel members in black vans with tinted windows who have targeted them based on age, gender or hair color. Though this occassionally does happen, it’s not what law enforcement and prosecutors are

County 17 • 29th October 2020

Part III: Grooming Victims

County 17 • 17th November 2020

Part IV: Supply and Demand

There’s a perception that human trafficking is a big-city problem that doesn’t happen in rural states like Wyoming. The truth is, however, that its ruralness and connectivity to major interstates makes the state prime for underground activity as a growing number of human trafficking cases are reported every year. This series takes a look at the nature of the problem, the people and groups tackling it and how awareness is changing law enforcement’s response and state legislation. This is part IV

County 17 • 4th February 2020

The Highway Man

From the outside, Austin Hunter’s nondescript, white Ford SUV looks like any other vehicle cruising down the highway.

14th December 2016

My Journey: From Mark to Misty (pg. 1)