The man charged with first-degree murder for the 1983 shotgun slaying of an Ashton girl says he was home with his family when Amy Elizabeth Hossner was killed.
Rauland J. Grube, 27, plans to offer an alibi defense when his trial begins Oct. 16 in St. Anthony, his public defender, Rexburg attorney Mike Kam, said in a notice filed last week in 7th District Court.According to court records, Grube contends he spent the night of June 3, 1983, at home in Ashton with his family. He went to bed early, sharing a bedroom with his two brothers, and was called to work early the next morning, the defense notice says.
Hossner, 15, was found dead in her basement bedroom the morning of June 4, 1983. Prosecutors contend she was shot through a basement window. She died of a single shotgun blast to the neck and chest.
A witness at Grube's preliminary hearing last spring said Grube told her about a month after Hossner was shot to death that he spoke to the victim the night of her death through her bedroom window.