CHEYENNE — A man has been arrested in Helena, Mont., for a nearly 25-year-old murder in Wyoming.
Elizabeth Miles Ehlers of Jackson Hole was murdered in June 1984 while traveling to Florida to be with her husband, Peter Ehlers. The 25-year-old woman’s body was found next to her car at a turnout near the mouth of Hoback Canyon in western Wyoming’s Sublette County.
She had gunshot wounds to her head, chest and hand.
The Sublette County Sheriff’s Department said authorities arrested Troy Dean Willoughby, 45, of Wickes, Mont., on Sunday for Ehlers’ murder. Willoughby was being held at the Lewis and Clark County Jail in Helena on felony charges unrelated to the homicide.
Those charges include failing to give notice, as a sexual or violent offender, to local authorities upon moving to an area.
Willoughby also was charged with failing to appear in court, according to a jail official who wouldn’t say whether Willoughby had an attorney or could be made available for comment.
Sublette County sheriff’s Capt. Brian Ketterhagen said a first-degree-murder charge was pending.
Ketterhagen said Willoughby lived in Daniel in central Sublette County at the time of the murder and knew Ehlers.
