Two women arrested, face first-degree murder charges in connection to Canyon County campground homicide [Video]

BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press. 

Melissa Fay Calumpit, 35, and Rosalie Lynn Morris, 59, were arrested Thursday and have been booked in the Canyon County Jail, according to a news release from the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office. Both women hail from Battle Mountain, Nevada, a community in the northern part of the state between Winnemucca and Elko on Highway 80, the sheriff’s office said.

They are scheduled to be arraigned Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Canyon County Courthouse. They’ll face charges of first-degree murder following the July 12 homicide of Travis Haywood Calumpit at Martin Landing, a camping and recreation area located at the confluence of the Snake and Boise rivers near Parma.

According to a previous news release from the sheriff’s office, dispatch received a report of a man who was unconscious …