Ronald Bristlewolf

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Ronald Bristlewolf was convicted of killing three people in the Black Rock Desert on June 15 or 16 and 28, 1978. The victims were:

  • Richard C. Weese, 40 of Longmont, CO
  • Judy Weese, 31, also of Longmont, CO
  • Peter Cachenaut, 75, a fellow desert recluse, who was killed after the Weeses on June 28, 1978

The LA Times article states that the couple was looking for a prospect worked by his father. Ronald Bristlewolf was known as Ronald Cress and in 1970 had blow off the thumb and a finger from his right hand. The LA Times stated that "the spring at the foot of Pinto Butte was called 'Three Fingers Hot Spring' because the hermit 'sort of rules over it'." Presumably, this is Pinto Hot Spring

Bristlewolf was sentence to three consecutive life terms.

A 2003 newspaper article describes how in 1980, Jack Lee Harelson went to the Denio bar where the barkeep told him that a prospector, presumably Peter Cachenaut, had found a cave that was brimming with Indian artifacts. The barkeep told Harelson that Bristlewolf later shot the prospector and two other people. Harelson looked for, but did not find the cave. However, a few months later, Harelson found a crevice that they later excavated. That location was at Elephant Mountain, which is south of Pinto Hot Spring.

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