It was a Valentine’s Day murder that spun off multiple tragedies, and it’s still a mystery as to who the killers were.
Billy Trimbach’s body was found Feb. 14, 1993, on the north side of the Interstate 76 frontage road west of Wiggins. He had been shot to death, and his body was taken by car to the side of the highway and dumped.
“There are . . . bizarre facts in this case,” Morgan County Sheriff Jim Crone said Thursday as he held an anniversary news conference.
Morgan County sheriff’s investigators suspected involvement by Trimbach’s wife, Cindy Trimbach, from the beginning, Crone said. He was killed on their one-year anniversary.
Billy Trimbach had two children from a previous marriage, and Cindy Trimbach had a son, James.
Shortly after the slaying, Cindy Trimbach moved with James to Butte, Mont. A story ran in a Butte newspaper about her being wanted for questioning in the homicide, Crone said.
James, who was then 10 years old, fatally shot 11-year-old Jeremy Bullock for teasing him about his mother in April 1994 in the playground of Margaret Leary Elementary School, the boy’s attorney, Monte Beck, said at the time.
James was sent to the Pine Hill School for Boys in Miles City, Mont., and Cindy Trimbach died the following year, Crone said.
But the slaying of 26-year-old Billy Trimbach has gone unsolved.
Anyone who has information about the case is asked to call the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office at 970-542-3445.
