TOWNSEND, Mont. (AP) - The body of a Helena man who was reported missing in December was found late last week along U.S. Highway 287 south of Townsend, Broadwater County Sheriff Wynn Meehan said Thursday.
An autopsy completed Monday confirmed the victim was Philip Arthur Pietz, 48. His cause of death wasn’t released.
Pietz was a transient who lived in his truck in the Walmart parking lot in Helena.
Pietz was listed as a missing endangered person on Dec. 19, after his truck was found crashed near a ranch north of Helena, Lewis and Clark County officials said. He was last seen on Dec. 2 at Walmart.
His body was found on April 17.
Pietz’s death is being investigated by officers in Broadwater and Lewis and Clark counties and the state’s Division of Criminal Investigation. Anyone with information about Pietz’s death is asked to call the Lewis and Clark County sheriff’s office.
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