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Walter Larson has been arrested in connection with the 2008 homicide of his ex-wife, Susan Casey of Glendive.

Casey was reported missing in April 2008; her body was recovered on May 6, 2008, from the Yellowstone River near Fallon.

A press release from the Montana Attorney General's office says that Larson was arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday morning, February 22, by a Montana Division of Criminal Investigation agent and a Glendive Police Department officer, with the assistance of the Phoenix Police Department.

Court documents state that Larson strangled Casey to death and threw her body into the river.

They also reference video surveillance of Larson's van and evidence that he stood in hiding outside her apartment the morning she died.

Two days after her disappearance in 2008, Larson was arrested for violating a restraining order; the charge was later dismissed because Larson was never served with the restraining order.

Larson is currently jailed in Phoenix pending extradition to Montana on charges of deliberate homicide and tampering with evidence; he is being held on $500,000 bail.

A media release from the Phoenix Police Department says:

On or about April 11, 2008, the suspect is alleged to have killed the victim, his ex-wife, by manual strangulation in the city of Glendive, Montana, and threw her body into the Yellowstone River.

She was found several days later.

Montana investigators eventually developed probable cause to arrest Walter "Marty" Larson for the murder, and contacted Phoenix PD homicide for assistance.

Larson was located living in north Phoenix and working in Scottsdale.

Click here to view the court document charging Larson (PDF).