ND Dean Family Of 4 Reported Missing On TG Day Found Dead In Crashed Billings Vehicle

BILLINGS, MT. (THECOUNT) — Chelsi Kay Dean, her husband, Anthony and their two children, have been identified as the missing Montana family found dead in a crash near Billings Thanksgiving day.

Dean, a member of the Manvel, N.D., Volunteer Fire Department, was driving this week with her husband and children departing a relative’s house in Caldwell, Idaho, on their way home to Ekalaka, Mont., when they went missing, according to a UND Police Department tweet sent Friday.

The vehicle of a Grand Forks County family who went missing on Thanksgiving has been found. The family was found dead in Montana as a result of a car crash east of Billings, according to family Facebook posts.

The last contact from them came around 6:30 a.m. Thursday while they were in Billings, Mont., when they sent a message saying they would arrive at their destination by 11:30 a.m. that day, Sgt. Andy Schneider of the Grand Forks County Sheriff’s Office said. They were driving east toward a relative’s home in Ekalaka, which is about 260 miles east of Billings, he said. source

The family never arrived.

Their children, Kaytlin, 5, and Avri, 1, were also traveling with the couple and also did not survive.

L.D. Webb, the mother of Anthony Dean, posted on Facebook that her “Mom and Grandma heart is broken into a billion pieces.”

“My poor babies,” she wrote. “I hope they didn’t suffer.”

Anyone with possible information on the deadly crash should contact police at 911.

Billings is a city in southern Montana on the Yellowstone River. In the north, trails wind along the rimrocks, which are sandstone cliffs. The Western Heritage Center displays local historical artifacts. The Moss Mansion showcases early-20th-century interiors. Pictograph Cave State Park’s rock paintings are just outside of town. Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is where Lieutenant Colonel Custer died, according to wikipedia.