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Woman's Body Found in Well in Elmore County

   The Elmore County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a murder from last week. Detectives believe 59 year old Jane Huddleston was possibly strangled to death Thursday or Friday and then dumped in a well on her property in the 79-hundred block of Highway 14. Acting on a tip, authorities say they found her body yesterday. Detectives say a man that had been living with the victim, 41 year old David Helms, has been charged with murder. As he was being booked in the Elmore County jail, Helms apparently broke an interior window of the facility trying to escape. He now faces an additional escape charge. Authorities have not said what may have led to the homicide. It is the first murder of the year in Elmore County.