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It's time to take a look at what's happening around Wyoming, for Monday, March 31st. I'm Wendy Corr, bringing you headlines from the Cowboy State Daily newsroom - Brought to you by the Cowboy State Daily Morning Show! From 6 to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, we bring you news, weather, sports AND in-depth interviews with news-makers from across Wyoming - and this week we've got a fantastic guest host, Charene Herrera, who will keep the conversation lively! Just click on the Cowboy State Daily homepage to join in.

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A new TV series on Paramount+ will feature the story of Keith Jesperson, who admitted to murdering at least eight women across five states — including Wyoming — between 1990 and 1995.

Cowboy State Daily's Jen Kocher spoke with one of the detectives who interviewed the serial killer in 1996, about how he murdered 21-year-old Angela Subrize at a truck stop outside of Cheyenne.

"Bruce Dexter, who is the former Laramie County Sheriff's detective who, along with John Harrison, was sent to interview Jesperson in Washington… and he sat down face to face with Him, and just was appalled by how proud he was of the crimes. And when they asked him, did you do this? He said, Yeah, and this is why. And his story is they were they had stopped. He picked up a young lady, a 21 year old woman in Spokane. And drove her to right outside a truck stop, right outside Cheyenne. And she wanted to keep going, and he wanted to sleep. And she was in a hurry, and he was going to drop her off at her, her dad's house in Fort Collins, and she was in a hurry to keep going. And he said, I just need to sleep. And she kept talking. So he said, I just killed her. I put my fist in her throat. And you know, these detectives were just astounded by how glib he was and unrepentant, just zero remorse."

Over the years, Jesperson has shared his story in books and news articles as has his daughter, Melissa Moore, who has spent decades of her life attempting to rectify the truth about her father's crimes that she'd learned about as a teen.

Read the full story HERE.

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Thermopolis resident Jessica Lippincott had a life-changing experience as a result of the 23andMe DNA test she took to explore her family's medical history, not only learning who her biological father was, but also discovering she had 49 half-siblings

But like other 23andMe customers, she has been doing a little soul-searching after learning the company has gone bankrupt and plans to auction the company — and the genetic data it collected — to the highest bidder.

Cowboy State Daily's Renee Jean spoke to Lippincott and others who must decide to delete their personal data, or allow it to roll over to whoever purchases the company.

"She did kind of a deep dive. She says she has a science brain. So she went in the science brain mode, and she started looking at, you know, what are the laws? What can these companies do with my data? And she decided at the end of that that she really wasn't that concerned about her data being with a new company. The new company still has to follow all the applicable laws that already govern such data… Hannah Snitko, she's here in Cheyenne, and her fiance did this during the pandemic… they kind of had opposite reactions. His reaction when he heard it was just immediately go delete the data… She decided that she would delete her data too, but found that she couldn't, because the sites were far too busy. So as of Friday, her data was still on the database."

The bankruptcy court judge hearing 23andMe's case in the Eastern District of Missouri has already signed off on attempts to find a buyer for the company. Bids are due by May 7, af