A Virginia sex offender was arrested in Utah this week, accused of playing inappropriate games of “truth or dare” with preteen boys. The victims told police they played truth or dare and another game called the “touch your body challenge” with Robert Paul Walker, which included removal of clothing and performing sexual acts, KUTV reported. …
A Utah judge on Wednesday dismissed a wrongful death suit filed against the Moab Police Department in the 2021 death of Gabby Petito but said an appellate court might have more leeway to pry apart the case’s minutiae. “The existing case law applies governmental immunity and extends the reach of governmental immunity in this kind …
An Amber Alert was issued shortly after midnight Sunday morning after a man allegedly abducted a 12-year-old girl he met online and let police on a chase on Interstate 15. The Bountiful Police Department said family members of the girl confronted the man before he took off with her his Chevrolet Camaro. About eight hours …
A Utah judge on Tuesday denied a bond request from a children’s book author accused of killing her husband. Kouri Richins wrote “Are You With Me?” about dealing the death of a father after her husband, Eric Richins died from a drug overdose in 2022, as CrimeOnline reported. She was arrested in June 2023 and …
The parents of a woman accused of killing her National Guardsman husband have been arrested on obstruction of justice charges. Thomas Ray Gledhill, 74, and Rosalie Christianson Gledhill, were arrested on Thursday and face four obstruction counts, KTVX reported. Police say they helped Jennifer Gledhill, 41, clean her home after the alleged murder of Matthew …
Utah law enforcement found the body of a 77-year-old man Friday in Logan Canyon and on Saturday arrested his son for murder. The Cache County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the Franklin Basin area of Logan Canyon by a hiker in the area he came upon the body. Investigators closed the area and …
A Utah man was arrested late Saturday night after he allegedly held his seven children hostage at a St. George motel while threatening to harm them. St. George Police said they were dispatched to the Quality Inn in that town at 11 p.m. for a domestic incident. When they arrived, they found Jonathan Dayzie fighting …
A Utah man was charged Friday with the death of his corrections officer daughter, who was found dead during a welfare check at the home she shared with her father in Tooele last month. Hector Martinez-Ayala, 54, was previously named a person of interest in the death of 25-year-old Marbella Martinez, who was sworn in …
A woman and three children were found shot to death in a car in a city in northern Utah Tuesday night. The Weber County Sheriff’s Office told the Gephardt Daily that the four were found by a family member just before 10 p.m. in a neighborhood in West Haven. “When deputies arrived, they confirmed four …
A Utah woman was found dead and her husband arrested just hours after a 911 caller requested a welfare check for her. An affidavit says that St. George police responded to the home but were unable to contact anyone, KSL reported. The caller was so concerned, however, he went to the house himself and found …
A Utah couple is in jail after police found their 13-year-old son locked in an alcove under the stairs in their home, and they say they’d do it again because they’re nothing wrong with it. Travis Peterson, 49, and Melissa Gray, 42, were arrested Tueday and charged with aggravated child abuse, KSTU reported. Gray, the …
Kouri Richins, the Utah grief book author accused of killing her husband with a fentanyl-laced drink, will finally go on trial next April. Judge Richard Mrazik ruled Tuesday, after a two-day preliminary hearing, there was enough evidence to try the case and set a start date for April 28, KTVX reported. The trial is expected …
