ELBOW LAKE, Minn. (KFGO) – Two people have been charged with third-degree murder in the drug overdose death of an Elbow Lake man.
24-year-old Rachel MacMillan of Elbow Lake and 30-year-old Montana Hedstrom of Dalton are charged in the March 2021 death of 27-year-old Jonathan Murtland. Murtland was found unresponsive at his home and died several days later at St. Cloud Hospital of a fentanyl overdose.
The Grant County Sheriff’s Office examined text messages and conducted multiple interviews as part of its investigation and determined that MacMillan and Hedstrom supplied the drug to Murtland.
The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and West Central Minnesota Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force assisted with the investigation.