As his collar indicated, 10 was indeed dead. He had been shot by a local man named Chad McKittrick, who, after being arrested and charged with a federal offense for shooting an endangered animal, claimed he had thought he was shooting a feral dog. It wasn’t the perfect crime; a friend of McKittrick’s had disposed of 10’s collar in a culvert filled with spring runoff, not realizing that it was, of course, perfectly waterproof and still transmitting. The defendant was anything but repentant; while out on bail, he rode his horse down the middle of Red Lodge in the annual Fourth of July parade
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