Missing Girl Found Murdered

A teenage Burley girl missing since the end of February has been found murdered.

The decomposed body of Regina Lee Krieger, who was two days from her 15th birthday when she disappeared, was found during the weekend on the bank of the Snake River downstream from the Minidoka Dam. An autopsy showed she was slashed or stabbed to death.

“Since we had been treating the case with the idea that she was alive, we’re going to have to look at leads quite differently now,” Cassia County Sheriff Billy Crystal said. “We’re going to start interviewing witnesses again.”

Crystal said there are no suspects.

“I had always wondered how a parent could survive with a missing child - not knowing from day to day where they are or what is happening to them,” Krieger’s mother, Rhonda said. “Now I know.”

Family spokeswoman, Reia Winn, an aunt, said Krieger kept a personal journal but was unsure whether its contents were reality or fantasy.