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Welcome to postmortem. I'm your host, Anne Marie Green, and today we're discussing the case of Danny Houtens. In September 1996, Danny was found dead near the Gallatin River that's just outside of Bozeman, Montana. After an autopsy declared the manner of death undetermined,

the sheriff's department said it could have been an accidental drowning.

In the following years, though, Danny's family tried to move on,

but always suspected that her death was no accident.

And almost 28 years later, her killer was found.

So with me now to discuss this case is 48 hours correspondent Peter VanCent and producer Lauren Clark. Welcome. Hey, good to see you again, Anne-Marie. Thanks for having us, Anne-Marie.

All right, guys, as usual, remember, if you haven't listened to this episode of 48 hours, head on over to your podcast feed.

You can find the full episode of this case right underneath this podcast that you're listening to right now.

Go listen and then come on back so we can have this conversation.

All right, let's get into this.

One of the things that really stood out to me about this case is the fact that in 1996,

the sheriff's department publicly said that there was actually no indication of foul play here

with Danny's death. They withheld details from the coroner's report that said that Danny had

inhaled water and mud that she had cuts and bruises on her body and there were signs of a possible

sexual assault. Why did investigators originally not release this information? Well, it all

depends on who you talked to, and we spoke with

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