Murder charge dropped against Flathead woman attacked by ex-husband
With tears in her eyes, Rachel Bellesen speaks to a group of supporters gathered at Depot Park in Kalispell on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Bellesen shot and killed her abusive ex-husband in Sanders County in October 2020 and spent nine months enduring prosecution for homicide, despite ample evidence she acted in self-defense. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Seven months after shooting and killing her abusive ex-husband near a fishing hole in Paradise, Rachel Bellesen is a free woman.
A judge on Tuesday permanently dismissed a charge of deliberate homicide against Bellesen, who maintains she was acting in self-defense when she killed Jacob Glace on Oct...
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