Bruce Bierbaum has been married and divorced five or six times since the 1970s, and multiple ex-wives have contacted the sheriff's office with stories about Joyce's case.
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The weight of circumstantial evidence against Bruce Bierbaum is laid out in full. He has been married and divorced five or six times, and almost every divorce has prompted an ex-wife to call the sheriff's office. One said plainly that she believed he killed Joyce. Another pointed police toward Joyce's distinctive 3-foot blue metal coat rack with cow-horn decorations, which went missing from the apartment and was never recovered. The most chilling detail: a family member told police they found a poem Bruce wrote about a dead girl looking up at him from a river. [1] — Ashley Flowers "Bruce Bierbaum is now the Whitman County Sheriff's primary focus. Multiple ex-wives have called the sheriff's office with suspicious storie…" 28:57 Beyond that, a search of his name returned 35 criminal filings. The most serious was a 2014 domestic battery charge after he allegedly pinned his wife — 40 years his junior — against a wall at a friend's house. Two witnesses corroborated her account. Additionally, the Montana Board of Veterinary Medicine found he committed five violations for regularly giving animal medications to his children — discovered when his ex-wife reported him. None of this proves murder, Ashley is careful to say, but it is the sum total of why the sheriff has focused his investigation squarely on Bruce.
A family member of Bruce Bierbaum told police they found a poem he wrote about a dead girl looking up at him from a river.
A search of Bruce Bierbaum's name returned 35 different criminal filings, including a domestic battery charge and veterinary license disciplinary actions.
The Montana Board of Veterinary Medicine found Bruce Bierbaum committed 5 violations after he was accused of regularly giving animal medications to his children.
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