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Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Two Murders at Missoula Nursing Home

New DNA analysis linked Nickie Dean Gardiner to both victims after the cold case reopened, prosecutors said.

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Nickie Dean Gardiner, accused of killing two women in 1990, made his first court appearance on Thursday, June 11, 2026, in Missoula District Court on two charges of deliberate homicide, where he pleaded not guilty.Missoula County prosecutors charged Gardiner for the 1990 deaths of two elderly patients at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation after DNA evidence linked him to both deaths.Zach Volheim reports - watch the video here: Suspect pleads no…

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Clinton man pleads not guilty to 2 unsolved 1990s Missoula murders

The man is charged with murdering two elderly women in 1990, according to charging documents.

·Billings, United States
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KBZK broke the news on Thursday, June 11, 2026.
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