'Mountain man' freed 32 years after kidnapping athlete to be son's bride

Don Nichols grabbed biathlete Kari Swenson in 1984 while she was out running, then fatally shot her friend Alan Goldstein when he came to rescue her

Self-described “mountain man” Don Nichols has been released on parole after serving 32 years for kidnapping a world-class athlete out on a training run in 1984 and killing her would-be rescuer – an attack that drew widespread media coverage and became the subject of a made-for-TV movie.

Nichols, 86, was sentenced to 85 years in prison for kidnapping biathlete Kari Swenson in the mountains near Big Sky and killing Alan Goldstein, a friend helping to search for Swenson when she failed to return home from her run.

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