The jury finds the man accused of killing two people at the Superior bar guilty

HAMILTON – The man accused of killing his wife and a bartender in Superior in August 2023 has been found guilty.

A jury in Hamilton found Kraig Walter Benson guilty Thursday of first-degree murder and using a weapon in the crime.

He was charged with the shootings of Jenny Benson and Logan Gardner at the Four Aces Bar.

Benson was found not guilty of mitigating first-degree murder.

Benson's sentencing date has not yet been set.

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Defense attorneys had argued that Benson was under extreme emotional distress at the time of the shooting because he had just learned of an alleged affair between his wife and Gardner.

Benson himself took the stand on Wednesday and said he had no memory of the murders.

Prosecutors countered under cross-examination that Benson could remember certain things Jenny Benson said to him shortly before the shooting, but then testified that he could not remember the shooting itself.

The trial had been moved from Mineral County to Hamilton to seat an unbiased jury. A Missoula judge presided over the case.