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These undated photos provided by the Montana Department of Corrections show Montana prison inmate Courtney Brooke Atlas, who is serving a 100-year prison sentence in Crossroads Correctional Center, in Shelby, Mont., for killing his wife and setting their house on fire in 1983. Atlas, now 79, on Dec. 1, 2021, confessed to killing Pamela Dorrington, 19, of Helena, Mont., in Feb. 1968, in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Atlas had been her landlord and Lewis and Clark County officials said he had always been a suspect. (Montana Department of Corrections via AP)

These undated photos provided by the Montana Department of Corrections show Montana prison inmate Courtney Brooke Atlas, who is serving a 100-year prison sentence in Crossroads Correctional Center, in Shelby, Mont., for killing his wife and setting their house on fire in 1983. Atlas, now 79, on Dec. 1, 2021, confessed to killing Pamela Dorrington, 19, of Helena, Mont., in Feb. 1968, in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Atlas had been her landlord and Lewis and Clark Co…

December 3, 2021

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Montana inmate confesses to 1968 slaying, dismemberment
December 3, 2021 4 p.m.

Montana inmate confesses to 1968 slaying, dismemberment

A Montana prison inmate serving a 100-year sentence for killing his wife in 1983 has confessed to strangling, sexually assaulting and dismembering a 19-year-old Helena woman 15 years earlier, authorities said Friday.