The stays of a person who disappeared greater than 20 years in the past when he was on his method to his household’s cabin have been discovered inside a submerged automotive in a Utah reservoir.
The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced Tuesday that human stays recovered final 12 months from a reservoir in Duchesne County have been recognized as Steven Willard Anderson, 46, who went lacking in 2004.
The Utah Workplace of the Medical Examiner and a personal lab used DNA testing to establish Anderson’s stays. No foul play is suspected in his dying, and the case was formally closed Tuesday after many years of uncertainty for the household, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.
Salt Lake County Sheriff
Anderson left his dwelling in Murray to make a greater than 200-mile drive to his household’s cabin in Flaming George, Utah, CBS affiliate KUTV reported. When he didn’t reply his father’s cellphone name, his father went to the cabin to seek out him.
Anderson’s family members mentioned he was driving a leased automobile to do some portray however by no means arrived, in keeping with the Utah Division of Public Security. His daughter, Emily, in 2022 instructed KUTV that she believed her father and the automobile may very well be submerged someplace.
The previous chilly case caught the eye of Doug Bishop from United Search Corps, a nonprofit that focuses on lacking particular person circumstances, and Dave Sparks, a Utah entrepreneur and web persona. The pair chronicled their search efforts in movies posted to YouTube and commenced working with regulation enforcement final spring.
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