Utah's Cold Cases

On February 9th, 1980, Bryan Pickett, a corrections officer at the Weber County Jail, went to a bar in Ogden with a colleague after work. Bryan left the bar around 1:30am, but he never made it home. A few minutes later...

In October 2008, during a night shift in Ogden, Jeffrey Bancroft left work on his lunch break and never returned. His son Kurtis remembers him as honest and hardworking, “the carburetor king” who could fix anything...

Ryan Bush, was a 20-year old Ogden man who went missing in April 2013. He was found dead in a recycling transfer facility in Wilmington, California just weeks later. The LAPD found some papers in his pockets that linked...

In the early morning of October 1, 2013, Shallen Lestrick went to his girlfriend’s house on 29th Street in Ogden, Utah, to see their new baby. According to his girlfriend, they were outside smoking when two men wearing...

On May 3, 2015, 18-year-old Francisco Lopez was killed in a drive-by shooting in Ogden. More than ten years later, police have reopened the case with new leads. His father, who describes Francisco as kind and full of...

On the morning of June 1st, 2019, a man was found in a pool of blood in an Ogden junkyard with a baseball bat at his feet. His death was determined to be a homicide, but the mystery remains - who killed Scott Perkins?...

In the spring of 1984, Andrew Hanson, who went by Jay, was shot and killed in front of his wife and brother-in-law. This 41-year-old case has left investigators puzzled; there is very little information about Jay and...

In 2017, 28-year-old Brian Housley was shot in Ogden in what police believe was a case of mistaken identity. Days later, he died from his injuries. Now, the cold case has been reopened, and investigators are hoping for...

In December 2016, two men were killed and another was left clinging to life after a targeted shooting in South Ogden. Surveillance video shows three masked figures outside the home moments before gunfire erupted—peering...

In December 2016, two men were killed and another was left clinging to life after a targeted shooting in South Ogden. Surveillance video shows three masked figures outside the home moments before gunfire erupted—peering...

The passage of time can mean a pass on justice for the families of murder victims. Utah's Cold Cases aims to bring the unsolved cases of the missing and murdered to the forefront, in hopes a new detail will spark new...