Law enforcement find nothing to dispute assisted suicide story; investigation ongoing

Law enforcement arrested a local woman last week for assisting in her husband’s suicide and then hiding his body.

A complaint filed by the Cheyenne County attorney’s office on March 28 charged Deann Kimble with assisting suicide and concealing human skeletal remains, both class four felonies. Kimble was arrested on March 26.

On the morning of March 26, the Cheyenne County sheriff’s office received a tip that the unattended death of Russell Kimble might have occurred at the igloo storage units, about six miles west and two miles north of Sidney. The couple was reportedly living in one of the st...