ColdPriorityCriminal · Homicide· Salt Lake County, UT

The Thistledown Murders (1996)

Unsolved homicide from 1996 in Salt Lake County, UT. The file remains open and contributors are re-examining the witness timeline.

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Timeline
  1. 1996

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

  2. 1997

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

  3. 1999

    A tip prompts a limited re-interview of two witnesses.

  4. Recently

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

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2 filed
coldfile_ann3 days ago

The evidence inventory lists a fibre sample that does not appear in any lab report. Where did it go?

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nightdesk3 days ago

The bus terminal manifest for that week survives in a transit archive. It has never been cross-checked against the suspect list.

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