The hunters claim to have not stepped on private property during their successful 2020 and 2021 hunts. “A body is bigger than that point,” Carbon County prosecutor Mayfield Davis said during last year's criminal trial. “All of their bodies were over private land ... Eshelman, an investor worth more than $380 million in 2014 according to Forbes Magazine, did not appear at the criminal trial last year. The Wyoming Backcountry Hunters and Anglers set up a GoFundMe campaign to pay for the Missouri hunters' legal fees, which has raised nearly $117,000.

Source: Forbes April 21, 2023 09:58 UTC