Uncovered is where the most passionate true crime enthusiasts can learn from and teach others. Ridgway received a life sentence and remains in a federal penitentiary in Colorado. Fast forward to August 13th 2019 A federal appeals court denied Ron Laffertys latest appeal putting him closer to the firing squad. In 1986 and 1987, Glaze abducted threeprostitutes, beat them to death,andleft their bodies on display. In fact, in 2015, The Huffington Post named Utah the ninth-safest state after taking into consideration the states high percentage of educated adults, low poverty rate and low rate of murders and other violent crimes. Upon seeing the amount of money that Fast forward another 6 years and he is in Oregon to at a correctional facility for larceny. The murder happened in February and he wasnt even suspect until April when his wife though her gun could have been the one used in the murder. What else we found to be slightly frustrating is that Gary didnt even fight his execution. He had written a letter to Brigham Young shortly after the massacre which laid the blame squarely on the Paiute Indians, but even among his own neighbors rumors of Lees guilt abounded. Love Utah? Log in. He also attempted to kill Civil Rights activist, Vernon Jordan, Jr. -- a crime he was acquitted of but later confessed to. Known as the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, they inspired the film The Town That Dreaded Sundownand remainone of the great unsolved cases in Texas and Arkansas history. While it may appear that Utah will never be able to put a stop to every homicide or true crime tale in the state, consider how far the state has come in recent years. Robert Hansen (aka the "Butcher Baker)His MO was to abduct local prostitutes, torture them in his house, and then transport them to a cabin in the remote Alaskan wilderness. value of $25,000. President who helped his wife during the divorce; Richard Stow, the LDS Steak Even so, Josh became a confirmed murderer in February 2012, when he hacked his two young sons with a hatchet before burning them and himself to death in an explosive home fire he intentionally set. One of America's most notorious serial killers, Robert Hansen was called 'The Butcher Baker' as he owned a bakery. He was executed in the electric chair in 1986. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Utah . He was executed by lethal injection on June 10, 1988. His spree lasted from 1967 to 1980 throughout New York and New Jersey, and he was ultimately apprehended when hotel workersheard a victims screams and called the police. The Anthon Transcript. Once homicide detectives can gather adequate Salt Lake County murdersevidence, they can sometimes arrest and charge a murder suspect before sending them to their Salt Lake County murders trial. Five of the victims died. To reiterate, according to Project: Cold Case, there are currently about 725 unsolved cases in Utah, a number that has dropped dramatically as law enforcement agencies continue to investigate unsolved cases. This created racial tension in Ogden and a lot of profiling took place after this event. In 1858 a federal judge came to southwestern Utah to investigate the massacre and Lees part in it, but Lee went into hiding and local Mormons refused to cooperate with the investigation. This story is sponsored by Robert J DeBry and Associates. Ridgway believed that murdering women was his job. Gary is quoted as saying I had killed so many women I have a hard time keeping them straight. It is said that he may have killed up to 71 women, if not more. Not surprisingly, he returned to murder and killed a dozen adult females between 1988 and 1989 before finally being arrested in early 1990. Utah didn't play a supporting role in the story of serial killer Ted Bundy it took center stage. parole board, struck by Hofmanns callous disregard for human life, He was ultimately brought down by a group of vigilantes and never stood trial. There is not too much info on this death online, apart from the standard 'not a suspicious death' statement by police. After serving time in Texas, he confessed to even more murders in Nevada, and he was ultimately executed there in 1985. Drain fluid. A serial killer is typically a person who kills three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. Name: Date: Method: County; 7: Ronnie Lee Gardner: June 18, 2010: Firing Squad: Salt Lake: 6: Joseph Mitchell Parson: October 15, 1999: Lethal Injection The bodies were left near freeway on-/off-rampsand, despite the fact that he left a note on one of the victims, he has never been caught. Gardner spoke about growing up in a troubled home, often living on the streets and moving from one unstable foster home to the next. wife not only refuses to allow the marriage, and practice in polygamy, but she I am no traitor. When he found officials were on to him, he made two bombs, killing two people in a desperate effort to buy himself time to forge more documents. He killed six and injured six more over a period of 18 months from May 1918 to October 1919. Gary said he wanted to die with dignity. The 2008 murder of Doug Clive Nelson, the 2013 murder of Nathan Tyler Huan, the 1984 murder of Pam Ellen Page, the 1978 murder of Marla Rae Scharp, the 1982 murder of Marty James Shook, and the 1989 murder of Anthony Chavez are additional examples of more cases included within various lists, being some of the many unsolved central Utah murders. The other two intended victims were not accessible so the brothers drove on to Wendover, Nevada and were arrested in an all you can eat buffet line. In the 1980's, that number rose to 31. Nebraska 2020. (Unidentified Serial Killer Active in the East End of London in 1888) 315. Keyes was born in Cove, Utah, on January 7, 1978. There was physically no evidence tying him to the death of Eva. Dennis Rader (aka the "BTK")Dennis Rader'smurderous life began with the 1974 killing of the Otero family in Wichita, after which hesent letters to local media outlets demanding attention and forcing them to give him a nickname -- BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill -- what he did to his victims). He was convicted of those crimes in 1975, released on parole in 1979, and immediately began robbing businesses along I-5 in Oregon and Washington. Between 1967 and 1974, Meirhofer kidnapped and killed three children and an ex-girlfriend. Perhaps the most notorious of Hofmann Mormon forgeries was the Salamander Letter. Both would live their lives with brain damage and all of the other ailments that come from being stomped, shot, and fed draino. Arthur ShawcrossThough his crimes were committed mostly in New York State, Shawcross was a native of Maine, a state seriously devoid of homicidal maniacs. Over the next 3 years Josh, his father Steven, and his brother Michael would be questioned and under surveillance in hopes that there would be some information about Susan and her whereabouts. John D Lee would be the only one to stand trial. David MeirhoferIf youve ever spent an hour -- and then subsequently about three days of your life -- watching every episode ofCriminal Mindsthen youre no doubt familiar with the concept of serial-killer profiling. You can find pieces of statuary and plaques in honor of Porter around the state of Utah. The sentence was carried out Jan. 17, 1977 nine months after his arrival in Utah and just six months after the murders. The house is now a haunted tourist attraction and the crime will, no doubt, remain unsolved forever. Almost unheard of. There has been talks to move him back to Washington, but who knows if that will happen. He is currently serving life in Attica. Along with Barnabet the organization claims to have killed more than 40 people in the early 1910s, a sort of weird, southern precursor to the Manson family. saith the Lord unto my servants the prophets, Ron wrote. Consider yourself warned. West, bases some of his books around Porter Rockwell! John D Lee was the only person that was held accountable for the deaths of the immigrants. Numerous recent and decades-old murders in Salt Lake City, Utah, have already been solved, while police continue to look into the remainingunsolved crimes. He was born in Belchertown, Hampshire County, Massachusetts to Orin and Sarah Rockwell. Ted BundyThe most famous of the many serial killers who've called Florida home, Bundy (who hadbeen described as a charmingyoung man)kidnapped, tortured, and murdered young women. He lied and created fake Facebook accounts to spy on people with his brother. Since forensics in the 1910s and '20s wasnt quite what it is today, authorities were inclined to believe her stories. From the summer of 1976 to the summer of 1977, the city lived in fear as a mysterious man stalked and shot several couples, killing seven people and wounding eight. An informant who led police to one of the bodies and had no alibi was arrested and picked out of a lineup (as having been seen with one of the victims the night she died), but he was released after passing a polygraph test. If you want to read more, Clark County Prosecutor.org has a great timeline on their website as well. He remains in prisonserving 10-25 years for criminal contempt and in-prison violence. He was never seen alive again. There have been songs such as 1977 The Adverts top 20 UK hit, Gary Gilmores Eyes. There were also books, and TV movies made about Gary. His family moved to Seattle when Gary was 11. Kirk Douglas Billie Child Murderer Miccosukee Indian Kirk Douglas Billie, 36, was sentenced to life in prison for the drowning death of sons, Kurt, 5 and Keith, 3. Courtney Naisbitt, a 16-year-old boy was also in the store. Take a look at this KUTV2 news footage that provides even more information about Arthur Gary Bishop and his crimes: Do you remember when these tragic murders happened? The motive for the shootings is a mystery. Evidence? Not only can you discover both unsolved and solved crimes on lists like these, but you can also find famous Utah murders, notorious Utah criminals, famous strange or mysterious Utah disappearances, and occasionally even prominent Utah serial killers, which we will discuss later. The majority of the kills that Ridgway had were in the 80s when serial killers were a in the front of the public mind. If you want to further investigate the number of murders in Utah by year, you can visit the websites of many local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, which often publish comprehensive reports with more information on crimes committed in the area during specific periods of time. Two years later, in a marijuana-and-acid-induced haze, he stabbed another neighbor 57 times while also killing herdaughters. A third pipe bomb (meant for another victim) accidentally detonated in his car seriously injuring Hofmann and sending the police right to his (car) door. Ridgway was actually arrested several times for the murders, but the evidence never stuck, and it wasn't until an improvement in DNA analysis that he was arrested for good in 2001. Died: August 21, 2014. Barzee, born in 1945 also in Salt Lake City. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in addition to Utahs many law enforcement agencies, compiles and publishes an annual Uniform Crime Report that provides detailed information and statistics on the various types of crimes and their crime rates for each state, including many counties and cities in every state. Other notable Utah killers in no particular order include: Ron Lafferty Dan Lafferty Mark Hofman Ronnie Lee Gardner Barton Kay Kirkham Pierre Dale Selby William Andrews Myron Lance Walter Kelbach Frances Schreuder Marc Schreuder Michael Archuleta Douglas Carter Taberon Dave Honie Troy Kell Douglas Anderson Lovell Floyd Eugene Maestas Von Taylor 3 min read. Revelation. Hofmann graduated from Olympus High School and went on to serve an LDS Mission. We have many He couldnt hold a job, he took her money and bought completely unnecessary things. marry his 14-year-old stepdaughter and begin the practice of polygamy. The FBI concluded he was not a terrorist. However, Douglas Carters case has recently come back into the spotlight with his appeals process and new evidence. At age 13, he broke into a house and stabbed the woman who lived there 58 times. at the time I made the bomb, my thoughts were that it didnt matter if it was Utah has seen more than its share of killers whose dastardly deeds have drawn national attention. All Rights Reserved, 6 of Utahs most infamous and horrible murderers. The "I-5 Bandit became the "I-5Killer," however,when he murdered a woman in a Salem office building. Our infamous Utahn for the month of June and episode 161, is not as well known as maybe a Ted Bundy or a Mark Hofman. Micajah and Wiley HarpeSince forensic science in the 1700s wasn't exactly what it is now, its hard to confirm these guys were actually Americas first serial killers -- but folklore gives them that nefarious claim. Gary Ridgway (aka the "Green River Killer)The most prolific serial killer in American history (he killed nearly 100 women between 1982-1989), Utahnative Gary Ridgway wasthe focus of one of the nations largest and longest manhunts. Lee was quoted as saying to the Salt Lake Tribune, Lee.