[Vision2020] Bustamante Threatened Another Woman Before Killing Benoit

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Thu Sep 1 08:57:56 PDT 2011


"A friend of Benoit's told KHQ reporter Gaby Fleischman that the school knew about other relationships between Bustamante and students. She said when Benoit walked in to the office to file her complaint against the former professor, she described his threats, and administrators knew exactly who she was talking about, even before she gave them his name."

Courtesy of KHQ at:

http://www.khq.com/story/15372342/report-moscow-murder-suspect-harrased

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Moscow Murderer Threatened Another Woman Before Killing Benoit

MOSCOW, Idaho - New information about the murder of 22-year-old Katy Benoit shows she wasn't the only woman 31-year-old Ernesto Bustamante threatened to kill, and wasn't the only student he was sexually involved with.
 
Bustamante's close friend told police that Bustamante has multiple personalities disorder and called one of those personalities "psychopathic killer." The friend said Bustamante once threatened to kill a woman other than Benoit while he was in that personality. Police confirm that in 2010 Bustamante filed a restraining order against that woman after she pleaded guilty to battery charges against Bustamante.
   
The police reports also show Bustamante was sexually involved with at least one other student at the University of Idaho. An anonymous complaint was filed with the school via their hot line.
 
A friend of Benoit's told KHQ reporter Gaby Fleischman that the school knew about other relationships between Bustamante and students. She said when Benoit walked in to the office to file her complaint against the former professor, she described his threats, and administrators knew exactly who she was talking about, even before she gave them his name.
   
A university spokesperson said she can't release information about Bustamante because of privacy laws, but the school did petition the courts to allow the release of Bustamante's personnel records. Those documents should reveal more about Bustamante's relationships, and complaints filed against him.
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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change and the Realist adjusts his sails."

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