by Ashley Flowers | Oct 18, 2023 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Kathy was a 22-year-old newlywed living in Salt Lake City in 1976, forging her own path in a town that often seemed to value conformity over individuality. By all accounts, Kathy had a reputation for being tough – definitely no shrinking violet. So no one was...
by Ashley Flowers | Oct 4, 2023 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Our card this week is Valaine Briggs, the Ace of Spades from Utah. When 19-year-old Valaine left her Salt Lake City apartment and walked to class one spring morning in 1977, her carefully planned future was full of promise. And though she was in a time of transition...
by Ashley Flowers | Aug 23, 2023 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
In 1978, Corazon was just 26 and a widow after losing her husband from cancer five years earlier. And Corazon was still mourning the loss of her husband when she herself became a victim of a horrifically brutal attack in the parking lot of her seemingly safe apartment...
by Ashley Flowers | Jun 14, 2023 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Late one night in September 2001, Amber Hoopes walked out to her grandparents’ auto body shop in Idaho Falls, Idaho to use the computer. After sending an email and logging off the computer around 1am, Amber vanished. Police have evidence that shows she was abducted...
by Ashley Flowers | May 17, 2023 | Episode, Idaho Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Tonya Teske was a free-spirited 18-year-old who chose to live her life on the open road by hitchhiking around the mountain west. On August 13, 1997, she was last seen in Montana at a truck stop before her body was discovered two days later on the side of a highway in...
by Ashley Flowers | Apr 26, 2023 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Sheree Allen was last seen alive at the (former) Colonial Motel in downtown Salt Lake City on January 23, 2005. The next night, her body was found in a dumpster in West Valley City, Utah wrapped in trash bags. There have been several viable leads in the case, but none...
