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 | 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...
by Ashley Flowers | Mar 15, 2023 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
After Sherry Black’s vicious murder, police had her killer’s DNA, but no suspects or motive. It would take nearly a decade – and a dogged investigator – to crack this unsolved case. Courtesy of Utah Cold Case Coalition Episode Info GEDmatch DNA Upload Instructions To...
by Ashley Flowers | Mar 15, 2023 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
In November of 2010, the community of South Salt Lake was shocked by the vicious murder of Sherry Black, a beloved great-grandmother. Investigators chased leads and interviewed suspects, utilizing every resource at their disposal to learn who could have committed such...
by Ashley Flowers | Nov 2, 2022 | Episode, Utah Cold Case, Western U.S. Cold Cases
Joyce “Tina” Gallegos is believed to have been murdered sometime around August 11, 1982. Ten days after being reported missing on August 11, a fisherman spotted her body on a sandbar in Utah’s Ogden River. A month after Tina’s body was found, a construction worker...
