(Salt Lake City, UT) — The University of Utah failed to take action before one of their students was allegedly killed by her boyfriend earlier this year. Documents released by the university show 19-year-old Zhifan Dong and her roommate told U. housing staff several times that Dong had been assaulted […]
HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man has been accused of raping, torturing and murdering a vulnerable adult when he lived in Alaska. The Homer News reports 32-year-old Kirby F. Calderwood was arrested Monday by police in Ogden, Utah. He’s been charged in Alaska with first- and second-degree murder, kidnapping […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The case of a teenage couple killed and tossed down an abandoned mine shaft culminated in murder convictions Friday for a Utah man who prosecutors said killed the pair because he found them hanging out with his girlfriend. Jarrod Baum faces up to life in […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says a Utah laboratory will examine DNA evidence from a string of killings committed during the 1970s and 1980s. Bottoms tweeted that city investigators were traveling to Salt Lake City to provide the evidence to a private lab. At least 29 Black […]
Murder charges have been pressed in relation to a fatal car crash that happened next to the Richfield City Park in May. It was determined that Lesia Ann Allred crossed over the center line and struck Jaymi and Clinton Henries’ vehicle head on, killing Clinton and injuring Jaymi. After a […]
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Prosecutors in Idaho say they will seek the death penalty against a couple in the killings of the wife’s two youngest children and the husband’s previous wife in a convoluted case involving doomsday religious beliefs and another suspicious death in Arizona. The prosecutors made the announcement […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Corrections officials in Alaska say a Utah man who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise has died. The Alaska Department of Corrections says Kenneth Manzanares was in the department’s custody, at a facility in […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman will serve up to 30 years in prison for her involvement with the death of a police officer as a teenager. The Monday sentence comes after the state Supreme Court overturned her original conviction. Meagan Grunwald’s boyfriend fired the fatal shots, but […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A Utah man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the beating death of his wife on an Alaska cruise. The federal judge handing down the sentence Thursday described the 2017 crime as violent and brutal. Prosecutors had sought life in prison for Kenneth […]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The father of a Utah woman beaten to death by her husband on an Alaska cruise in 2017 told a judge he would consider it justice if the man went to prison for the rest of his life. Jeff Hunt spoke at a sentencing hearing Wednesday […]
