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ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Salt Lake County, UT

The Crane Homicide (1983)

Unsolved homicide from 1983 in Salt Lake County, UT. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the original canvass notes.

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Empty residential street at night under a streetlamp
Timeline
  1. 1983

    Body discovered near Fenmark; the county opens a homicide investigation.

  2. 1984

    Initial canvass closes without a named suspect; the case goes inactive.

  3. 2005

    Records are digitised and released under a public records request.

  4. Recently

    Ledger contributors reopen the evidence inventory and index the public record.

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2 filed
fern_and_ash5 hours ago

The tip line transcripts were never indexed. Volunteers have digitised roughly a third and duplicate callers are already emerging.

82 agree
nightdesk6 hours ago

Latent prints from the scene predate the national database. Nobody has requested a modern comparison.

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