Night before last about 10:15 PM (December 29), Tom Thorne (Acting Director of Wyoming DOW) and his wife, Beth Williams ( Mike Miller's collaborator on CWD articles for many years and researcher on fawns ) were on their way home to Laramie from a Carribbean vacation when they ran under the back end of a southbound semi - trailer that was jackknifing into the oncoming northbound lane. Both Tom and Beth were killed.