Overview
- Nichole Lynn Boyer, 28, entered a not guilty plea to one count of deliberate homicide in Beaverhead County District Court on Oct. 28.
- She remains in custody on a $500,000 bond after calling authorities on Oct. 16 to report her nearly three-year-old son had died.
- Judge Luke Berger ordered that the boy’s body not be cremated until an expert can examine the evidence, and a decision on temporary release is still pending.
- Charging documents describe a child with spina bifida, club feet, and hydrocephalus and allege Boyer stopped providing care in September.
- Investigators found the child in an upstairs room in an advanced state of decomposition, and three other minors and an adult were removed from the home.