True crime cases in Utah

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  Kamas, Utah · 2022

  Murder of Eric Richins

  Utah real estate agent Kouri Richins fatally poisoned her husband, Eric Richins, with a lethal dose of fentanyl at their Kamas, Utah, home in March 2022, then published a children's grief book before her 2023 arrest. A jury convicted her in March 2026 of aggravated murder, attempted murder, forgery, and fraud, and she was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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  Camp Salina, Salina, Utah, United States · 1945

  1945 Utah prisoner of war massacre

  At midnight on July 8, 1945, American guard Clarence V. Bertucci opened machine-gun fire on sleeping German prisoners of war at Camp Salina, Utah, killing nine and wounding nineteen.

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  Near Moab, Utah, United States (La Sal Mountains campsite) · 2021

  Murders of Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner

  Married couple Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner were found shot to death near their campsite outside Moab, Utah, in August 2021; in December 2022 authorities closed the case, naming Adam Pinkusiewicz, who had died by suicide, as the murderer.

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  Battle Creek Canyon, near Pleasant Grove, Utah · 1849

  Battle Creek massacre

  On March 5, 1849, a militia of 35 Mormon settlers attacked a Timpanogos camp at Battle Creek Canyon near present-day Pleasant Grove, Utah, killing at least four Native American men in the first violent clash between settlers and the Timpanogos in Utah Valley.

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  Yuba Lake campground, Juab County, Utah · 1978

  Killing of Marilee Bruszer

  Marilee Lee Bruszer disappeared from Long Beach, California, in August 1978 and was found strangled near Yuba Lake, Utah, days later, but was not identified until 2015 due to inaccurate physical estimates and the long distance between disappearance and discovery sites.

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  Salt Creek Canyon, near Nephi, Juab County, Utah · 1858

  Salt Creek Canyon massacre

  On June 4, 1858, four Danish immigrants traveling to a Mormon settlement in Sanpete Valley, Utah, were ambushed and killed by unidentified Indigenous attackers in Salt Creek Canyon; a fifth member of the group escaped.

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  Alta View Hospital, Sandy, Utah · 1991

  Alta View Hospital hostage incident

  On September 20, 1991, Richard Worthington took hostages at gunpoint in the Women's Center of Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah, in an attempt to kill the doctor who had performed his wife's tubal ligation. During an eighteen-hour standoff, nurse Karla Roth was fatally shot after trying to disarm him; Worthington later surrendered and was convicted of her murder.

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  Former Salt Lake City Public Library main branch (now The Leonardo), Salt Lake City, Utah · 1994

  Salt Lake City Public Library hostage incident

  On March 5, 1994, Clifford Lynn Draper took hostages at gunpoint on the second floor of the former Salt Lake City Public Library main branch, claiming to have a bomb. After a standoff of more than six hours, off-duty Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Lloyd Prescott shot and killed Draper, and a real but non-detonated bomb was later safely destroyed by police.

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  Central Utah, United States · 1857

  Aiken massacre

  In 1857, five California-bound travelers were seized in central Utah on unsubstantiated spying accusations and killed, allegedly on the orders of senior leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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