POCATELLO – Colin Reese Diggie, 36, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was
sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 25 years in prison, for second
degree murder, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye
also sentenced Diggie to pay $7,725 in restitution and ordered him to serve
five years of supervised release after he is released from prison. Diggie pleaded guilty on January 16, 2019.
According to court records, on the evening of January 10,
2017, at around 6:30 or 7:00 p.m., Diggie returned with his girlfriend, the
victim, to her home in Fort Hall. At
some point after returning to his girlfriend’s home, Diggie stabbed and killed
her.
At approximately 10:30 p.m., the girlfriend’s neighbors
heard a knock on their door. Upon
opening their door, they saw Diggie covered in blood, holding his hands, with a
look of shock. He said something
unintelligible about someone having killed his girlfriend and pointed next door
to the girlfriend’s house. The neighbors
called 911 and officers were dispatched to that location.
Fort Hall Police Department officers initially responded to
the girlfriend’s residence. Agents from
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrived later. At the house, they found the girlfriend’s
body. Her body was eventually
transferred to the Ada County Coroner’s Office for an autopsy. A forensic pathologist performed an autopsy
and confirmed the cause of death was a result of the multiple stab wounds.
DNA testing conducted at the FBI Laboratory confirmed that
multiple items with the girlfriend’s blood on them taken from the crime scene
also had the defendant’s DNA present.
Additionally, the FBI Lab also confirmed that the defendant’s bloody
fingerprint was found at the crime scene.
On December 12, 2017, a federal grand jury sitting in
Pocatello returned an indictment charging Diggie with second degree murder for
killing his girlfriend.
This case was investigated by the FBI and the Fort Hall
Police Department.
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