William Glenn Olson of Conrad has been charged with deliberate homicide and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence in connection with the disappearance of Alicia Wood.

Olson was charged Dec. 11 in Pondera County.

Law enforcement believes Wood’s remains are in the High Plains Landfill in Cascade County but have not yet been discovered after a weeklong search.

Wood’s neighbor called the Conrad Police Department on Nov. 30 for a welfare check after not seeing or hearing from her for several days, reporting she’d last seen the 46-year-old on Nov. 25 or Nov. 26.

The neighbor told police that Wood had not responded to calls or texts and had observed oddities at her house on South Delaware Street.

Law enforcement officers went to Wood’s house and noted her vehicle wasn’t parked in its normal spot in front. They knocked on doors and windows to no response.

Investigators searching landfill for potential remains of missing person

Officers observed through the windows that the inside of the residence appeared to be out of order.

Wood’s ex-husband called law enforcement that night after the neighbor told him she couldn’t reach her and was concerned. Their son told police he last had contact with Wood on Nov. 22.

A friend of their son’s told officers he had seen Wood purchasing beer at the Contrad Town Pump and appeared to be “beat up,” according to court documents.

Officers returned to Wood’s home and forcibly entered the residence, finding no sign of her. They noted her animals were out of food and water and a red colored circular pattern on the floor but couldn’t immediately determine if it was paint or blood.

The Conrad Police Department listed Wood as a missing person that night.

Conrad police were later notified that the Montana Highway Patrol had found Wood’s vehicle outside of Conrad and towed it to an impound lot in Shelby. No occupant were found in or around the vehicle, according to court documents.

On Dec. 1, Wood’s ex-husband told police that her vehicle had been crashed by an unknown person outside of Conrad and had left it there, fleeing on foot. Court documents do not specify how he obtained that information, but officers went to the impound lot and verified that Wood was not in the vehicle.

On Dec. 1, Wood’s son used Apple’s phone finder app and the data showed it had been active 47 minutes earlier on North Main Street in Conrad.

Officers went to that address but were unsuccessful in contacting the owner. Later, officers returned to the address and spoke to a female who had found the phone, identified as Wood’s, laying next to the mailbox. The home owner arrived but refused to speak to officers, according to court documents.

The female told officers that William Olson was the person who wrecked Wood’s vehicle and she had just seen him at another residence, where officers went to question the resident, according to court documents.

The resident told officers that Olson had been at his house the previous day to pick up his guitar and seemed happy, according to court documents.

On Dec. 2, officers attempted to locate Olson’s sister, who worked at the IGA in Conrad, but she wasn’t there and gave officers her phone number and said Olson would likely be with her, but she didn’t answer the phone, according to court documents.

Officers then made contact with a man who lived in Brady and said that Olson had showed up at his house, saying he’d run there from Conrad and gave Olson a ride to the house where his guitar was, according to court documents. The man had also given Olson a ride to his residence in Fort Shaw.

During the drive Olson told the man that he owed Wood a new vehicle because he’d crashed it. The man asked what had happened and Olson said that Wood wouldn’t let him leave her residence in Conrad so he took her car after she fell asleep, the man told investigators.

Court documents do not detail how Olson knew Wood or why he was at her residence in Conrad.

Officers checked Wood’s vehicle at the impound lot and noted blood spatter on the passenger and driver’s sides, both interior and exterior, including “handprints that appeared as if someone had dragged their hand across the car locking mechanism,” according to court documents. Officers also found a fired .22 caliber cartridge on the vehicle floor.

On Dec. 2, officers went to the location where Wood’s vehicle was found and searched the immediate area but found no evidence of her whereabouts.

On Dec. 2, officers contacted Olson by phone and he said he’d last seen Wood on Nov. 10 and didn’t know where she was now.

Olson told officers he didn’t want to answer more questions without speaking to a lawyer and that he’d call officers back the following day, according to court documents.

On Dec. 3, Conrad police contacted the the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation for assistance and three agents agreed to assist.

On Dec. 3, DCI Agent Derek Mahlum, a former Great Falls Police Department officer, contacted Conrad police for more information about Olson, learning he had several previous arrests and outstanding arrest warrants, including a felony warrant for violating conditions of release on a partner or family member assault charge.

On Dec. 3, a Cascade County deputy went to a residence in Fort Shaw after learning that’s where Olson was, took him into custody on outstanding warrants and transported him to the Pondera County Sheriff’s Office where he was questioned.

During the interview, Olson admitted to strangling Wood days before crashing her vehicle, according to court documents.

Olson told investigators that he and Wood were fighting at her house in Conrad and he strangled her with a headlock.

Olson said that after killing her, he got a hard sided suitcase from her closet and put her body in the suitcase, which he then put in the trunk of her vehicle, according to court documents.

Olson told investigators that he then drove to the west side of Great Falls near West Elementary and put the suitcase containing Wood’s body in a dumpster in the 900 block of 6th Alley Northwest, then traveled back to Conrad and placed Wood’s phone in front of the residence where officers found it then returned to his house in Fort Shaw, according to court documents.

After the interview, officers transported Olson to Great Falls where he showed them where he had disposed of Woods’ body, according to court documents.

Investigators contacted the City of Great Falls sanitation division which was able to determine when the contents of that dumpster were collected and offloaded at the landfill on Nov. 28, according to court documents, leading law enforcement to begin the current search at the landfill.

The landfill is owned by Republic Services and the company told law enforcement it would be a difficult search due to the amount of refuse dumped at the landfill since Olson’s body was left in the dumpster, according to court documents.