A man jailed for months in the disappearance of two Wisconsin brothers in northwest Missouri has been charged with murder, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday morning.
The announcement came in a news conference held by Caldwell County Sheriff Jerry Galloway in front of the county courthouse in Kingston.
Garland Nelson, a 25-year-old Braymer farmer who reportedly was involved in cattle business with the brothers, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of abandonment of a corpse, two counts of tampering with physical evidence, two counts of armed criminal action, and once count of unlawful possession of a firearm.
He remains the only person charged in connection with the deaths of Nick and Justin Diemel.
Mystery surrounded the case for months after the brothers disappeared July 21. The brothers, who owned a livestock company, had traveled from their home in Shawano County to Missouri on business and visited Nelson at his family's farm in Braymer, reportedly to look at calves.
Human remains were later found on the farm.
On Wednesday officials said the investigation included multiple agencies, including the FBI.
Sheriff Galloway declined to answer questions. He said the case was one of the more complicated he had worked on. No more charges were expected, he said.
Nelson was originally charged in July with tampering, accused of driving the brothers' rental truck from his family's farm to a commuter lot 35 miles south in Holt where it was found abandoned.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge earlier this month.
Nelson previously spent two years in federal prison for cattle fraud and currently faces charges for endangering the food supply in Bourbon County, Kansas.
He is accused of transferring 35 calves from his mother's farm in Missouri to a dairy farm in Fort Scott, Kansas, without health papers.
The cows were malnourished and sick when they were dropped off after a failed business deal that left 96 cows dead according to his former business partner David Foster.
