John Jefferson
Left: Orion Schlesinger. Right: Rowan Henry Littauer (Sublette County Sheriff’s Office). Inset: Dakota Farley (Covill Funeral Home).
Two men in Wyoming are facing charges in connection to the death of a 23-year-old man whom the suspects accused of being a pedophile.
Rowan Henry Littauer, 19, stands accused of first-degree murder and mutilation of a dead body. Orion Schlesinger, 18, is facing charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and theft. They are accused of killing 23-year-old Dakota Farley.
A probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime states the investigation began on Feb. 5 when the Sublette County Sheriff’s Office received text messages into dispatch that said “Rowan (19) shot Dakota with a bow and 2 arrows” and “one less pedifile (sic) now.” Cops noted that the Sheriff’s Office is “without verified information” that Farley engaged in any illicit behavior with minors. The affidavit does not reveal why the suspects thought Farley was a pedophile.
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Detectives met with Littauer who allegedly told them he “shot a man with a bow and two arrows” in the arm and head. Littauer used the map application on his phone to show the location of Farley’s home where he allegedly killed him. He also said Schlesinger was with him when the killing occurred.
Cops went to the home in Pinedale, a mountain town some 350 miles northwest of Cheyenne, and found Farley’s body lying face down on the living room carpet. Detectives saw dried blood under and around Farley’s head. They also observed eight “circular shaped wounds” with BBs lodged inside in the left side of Farley’s head. Since there was no blood in the wounds, investigators determined that Farley was shot with the BB gun after he was dead.
Further investigation revealed that pals Littauer and Schlesinger concocted a plan in the evening hours of Feb. 1 to go to Farley’s home “with the express purpose of ending his life.” Littauer allegedly said he gathered a “compound bow, broadhead tipped arrows, and a BB gun” at his house after Schlesinger came over. The pair then walked over a mile to Farley’s house and went inside where the victim was standing in the living room, according to the affidavit. Cops did not say in the affidavit whether Farley knew the suspects prior to the incident.
Littauer shot Farley “through the right arm and into his chest, resulting in his nearly-instantaneous death,” detectives wrote. He then allegedly fired eight BBs into Farley’s head as he lay dead on the ground. Schlessinger is accused of stealing Farley’s purple and gray .22 caliber revolver.
Police recovered the bow and arrow and BB gun Littauer said he used.
Both Littauer and Schlessinger are in the Sublette County Jail on a $5 million bond. Sweetwater Now reports that the two men have a court hearing scheduled for Feb. 13.
Farley’s obituary said his “life was tragically and senselessly taken in the early morning hours of Sunday, Feb. 2025.” According to his obituary, Farley served a mission at the Kemmerer Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wyoming.
“Dakota loved to play basketball, he was a big gamer and was member of the Jackson Hole Moose Rugby team,” the obituary reads. “Every chance he got he wanted to be outside; he loved to hunt, camp and fish. His favorite place to be was Boulder Lake, but as much as he loved fishing, his family says the fishing trips would often end up becoming a swimming event, because wherever he was, he loved playing in the water and in the sand of the beach.”
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