SLCLS Genre Study discussion

Utah has had its fair share of notorious (books and made for TV movies) True Criminalists. Maybe some who got loads of attention, but not quite a book - YET! Which ones have you known? I call it "Whatever happened to the boy next door?"

The first person my brothers and I knew we worked with one summer. I was 19, they were 18 and 16. He sat at the boys table, I sat at the girls table with his sister at lunch and break. (It was the 70's) My 16 year old brother took his sister out a few times. A few months later we read in the paper that one weekend he and his friend killed some French tourists.

I took piano lessons as a child and my piano teacher was also my 6th grade teacher. He was scary in the classroom and I was always scared when he came over to my home for my piano lesson. You would not believe the excuses I came up with so I could miss my lessons. Well, anyway, one Tuesday I couldn't think up another excuse, so I expected him to come. He didn't show up! What a relief Found out the next day that he had taken off with another piano student and tried to flee the country. She was only 14.

I haven't known any, but my dad had Ted Bundy in his singles ward when he was first going to the University of Utah.

I have met a number of people who have (or whose relatives) have crossed paths with Ted. We had a computer person, whatever that job used to be whose dad was his home teacher and Ted asked him to water his plants but then he got arrested.

My dad's a real estate agent and he showed Elizabeth Smart's house a couple of days before she was kidnapped. We were all kind of surprised the police never called and talked to him. I would have thought they'd be interviewing everyone who was in the house. Ed Smart did call him. Coincidentally, I was less than a block away from Elizabeth Smart when she was found--though I'd been out of the country most of the time she was kidnapped.

I was working at Sandy Library and had an altercation with Richard Worthington. Of course I didn't know who he was at the time, but about a week later he was on the news for killing his wife.

The grocery store where my mom used to shop was where Arthur Gary Bishop abducted one of the young boys who was later found murdered. We had been shopping there earlier on the same day the boy was abducted.