The Bizarre Disappearance of Reed Jeppson
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So sad, a poor boy and his poor dogs... cases that involve kids and animals are on a whole new level
Agree. Dogs, any case involving a dog will break my heart. Even losing a pet affects me 1000 times harder than losing a human friend or family. The unconditional love, loyalty and devotion one gets from a dog is so precious. The whole story is so tragic. That poor family. 50+ years of wondering what happened to their boy. :(
Children and animals are the most innocent and helpless.
I agree...this breaks my heart
@@fairydogmother2752 Absolutely. I tend to avoid videos now where children have been murdered, have vanished or been abused. It breaks my heart.
@@hardboiledmahoney3273 same here.
The fact that both dogs were never seen again and he was also never found makes me think he and his dogs fell into something. An old well, mineshaft or body of water. Something happened quickly and they disappeared. Dogs tend to return and or stay right in the area their master was last seen by them. I train K-9’s and supervised the K-9 Until for several decades. Dogs have certain instinctive mental patterns and behaviors. Something accidental and fast would explain why the dogs were also missing and never seen in the area again.
Just a thought.
It would be awful. But wouldn't they have eventually found where they fell?
Agree!
Makes perfect sense sir.
Yes I thought it odd that neither of the dogs were seen again too.
@@tessalette3231 not necessarily. Depends on the area. In our nearby woods they recently found shafts about 5 to 10 meters deep. No one knew they were there or who made them.
He is my mother's age. I can't help but think of all the good my mother has done in her life & wonder what the world was robbed of when this young man went missing.
This is a loving statement by somebody who really loves her mother. Bless your heart, Kelly
Beautiful statement. It makes me terribly sad. God bless you and your mother.
It seems good ppl die young. Disgusting. No justice. Evil keep on living.
A slight update. Reed is my Grandfather's brother. Back in 2010 I heard about why the case was reopened. I don't think police said why because of fear of evidence damage. Back then I was told that the neighbors in one of the nearby properties (keep in mind that I was a kid, and it's been over a decade since I heard this) had decided to dig some trenches. I think it was for airsoft, but honestly that could be wrong. When digging they found the bones of two dogs, same type as Reed's... Stuffed in an old trash bag. I heard from other family members that one of the neighbors was a very creepy man and ran a medical practice. Apparently when the man sold his house, the basement contained surgical tools and even a surgery table.
Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I was a little kid when I heard this all from my grandparents back then. My personal opinion is that he was kidnapped by someone in the neighborhood and killed. They found his dogs. I'm willing to bet he's been buried out there. Someone's brand new house or gazebo just barely covering the bones.
Thank you for the update. And I'm sorry for your family's loss.
Source: "trust me bro"
How tragic. I bet that creepy neighbor called him over, maybe to ask for a favor, and he was abducted and murdered. So heartbreaking for the family who needs to know where he is. 😢
Icky cowardly murderers abound in the US.
I hate when idiots automatically assume someone is lying when they say they knew, or were a relative of a victim or murderer. Its so rude. NEWSFLASH. These people had lives, acquaintances, close friends and family members close to them or not, even years later. I always give the benefit of the doubt, as I cannot prove otherwise. Sure, some people lie to get attention, but this does not feel made up to me, and they themselves said "take what i say with a grain of salt" so as not to mislead anyone. If it were my family member or someone I knew, I too would be watching documentaries to find out more. It's not that far of a stretch, and not unheard of either.
They really need to check that water..once I took my dog out for a run and we were running around the lake..it was frozen, and my dog took off onto the ice chasing birds and fell through the ice..i went after her falling in too. I fortunately was somehow able to get out but thought to myself if me and my dog would have drowned no one would know where we were
I've done that too
Were you able to get your doggy out too?
TWO dogs though? Highly unlikely this was a tragic accident, where none of the three beings leave a trace. 100% foul play.
@@sebastianelytron8450 I agree with you in Foul Play.
Absolutely tragic.
Reed was a handsome lad, and that was my first thought, targeted by a paedophile, Maybe even someone known to him?
A very disturbing case, Poor lad, poor Family poor dogs.
Did your dog manage to get out? :(
Tell you what, though, that's one of the most flattering age progression pictures I've seen.
My thoughts exactly.
I'll tell you what! 😍🤣😂
I'll say!
Flattering but vague. :(
They should have done an age progression on the dogs too.
I’m leaning towards a tragic accident.
He was training the dogs for hunting so my theory is he came across someone who saw value in those dogs either to sell or for his personal hunting use. Good and trained hunting dogs were and still are very valuable in hunting communities so they kidnapped/killed him, stole the dogs and buried him on their private property
Agreed. One quick look at the area on a map immediately shows how difficult it would be to find someone in that landscape!
I think a tragic accident too.
God, that has to be difficult. I cant even imagine how the siblings must feel knowing they have a brother who just... disappeared when they were all kids. just went missing one day with his dogs. can you imagine? the amount of grief and wondering they must feel all the time. I have a younger brother and we were super close as kids, not so much as adults, but I can't even imagine how I'd feel if he just disappeared one day with our dogs and never came back. the not knowing is the worst. I really hope they all find out what happened before their time comes. it's horrible that their parents died not knowing what happened to their boy.
Whatever happened to him must have happened to the two dogs too, since they were never seen again either. Falling into the river makes a lot of sense, as it would carry the three away
He was training the dogs for hunting so my theory is he came across someone who saw value in those dogs either to sell or for his personal hunting use. Good and trained hunting dogs were and still are very valuable in hunting communities so they kidnapped/killed him, stole the dogs and buried him on their private property
Thing is, you’d expect the bodies to have washed up on the banks downriver at some point.
No. Rivers out here in Utah aren't like what you're used to. They're all creeks or streams. It's a very hot and dry desert, and the only water is snow melt. Reed was my Grandfather's brother. They found the bones of the dogs buried on a neighbors property in 2010 which prompted a reopening of the case. I'm leaning towards murder.
It makes alot of sense to people with low IQ's and who dont seem to realize that the world is overrun by predators.
I just wanted to say thank you for doing a great job! Details, narration, pronunciation, and the structure of each episode are impeccable. Your dedication is obvious and even though the events are often horrible, the presentation is calming. Again, thank you!
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Same thought haha
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It’s very unusual for both the person and the fogs they were walking going missing.Normally the dogs wander back home .It must be awful never knowing and never finding any evidence at all .And he seems too young to go off and start a new life ,or to worry his family or friends.Such a sad case
He was teaching his dogs to hunt birds. I wonder if he was accidentally killed by a hunter who panicked and shot the dogs as well before hiding all 3 somewhere away from the town.
The accidental hunter shootings have been too common where I am from, whether actual accidents or staged. So, I agree this could be possible and a plausible theory.
I think his dogs were stolen.
Wow.. I’ve never had a case so close to home! This happened literally down the street from me! A stone’s throw away.. and I’ve never heard of it until today. Thank you for shedding light on his case. There’s a fairly large river that runs down Emigration canyon and runs right down where he would have been walking right along side it the entire way- it crosses over Wasatch Blvd and continues East. And one thing about these rivers that come down through these mountains, they are really fast moving and would’ve been *a lot* healthier rivers back in the 60’s, considering our snow pack and temperatures were much colder then.
I wonder if he got into some sort of accident- maybe the puppy ran off and fell into the river and he and the older dog jumped in after it, and they were swept away. Or the dogs were playing in the river and they got swept away and he went after them?? But then you’d think that they’d turn up at some point too. I had a friend that drowned when they were tubing in the Provo river that’s in the next mountain range over.. and it’s an almost identical river- similar size etc., so they can be really dangerous. That’s what came to my mind right away- because it would be pretty hard to abduct a teenager with 2 dogs in broad daylight. But who knows what people are capable of if they’re intent on doing something.. What a tragic case. Even after all these years, his siblings haven’t given up searching for him… breaks my heart.💔 As always, wonderful work..✨
It's a very tragic and baffling case. Not knowing is the worse.
Thank you for all your hard work. You make a huge difference in a shut ins life.
Oh Hun. I hear ya, I'm a sort of shut in. I go Tesco n the chemist. Covid has changed things, but I had no life before. Get some happy music on n enjoy the sunshine 🌞🌞🌞
What do you mean you're shut in? You in danger?
@@boredweegie553 shut ins are people who don’t leave home much.
Another well done case presentation. The best of the best!
It's true he would not have gotten into a car with someone he didn't know, nor would the dogs. But what if he knew the person and the dogs knew the person? And they are the ones who killed him and disposed of the body in a way that would not be discovered? Maybe a sex crime by a person known to him and the dogs. I'm sure they killed the dogs too. Or not. Maybe it's something completely different. I just read a lot of murder mysteries. It's very sad.
As always an excellent job of an obscure case, thanks for shedding some light. Prayers that the family get the answers they need!
A person disappearing while walking two dogs ... now that is an unusual circumstance!
I was just looking for something to watch that was good and BOOM you uploaded! Perfect! Ty for all your hard work.
If he walked the dogs regularly in those woods alone, a predator could’ve been watching him for weeks just waiting for the right time to take him.
I thought the same thing - but no shred of evidence left behind? Do we know if the police even combed the area?
I keep getting a predator feeling about this case too. Struck me as odd that both dogs disappeared too. Predators stalk their victims. Probably lived in the area. 😈
Agree. I was watching a crime doc & the criminal psychologist said stalking is a feature in 70% of murders & abductions.
He was training the dogs for hunting so my theory is he came across someone who saw value in those dogs either to sell or for his personal hunting use. Good and trained hunting dogs were and still are very valuable in hunting communities so they kidnapped/killed him, stole the dogs and buried him on their private property
@@sarahholland2600 ….yes but there’s no proof he was abducted or murdered.
This is my great uncle, and I wish I had gotten to know him. Some of family believes that he was kidnapped due to what you just heard if you watched the full video. I believe it as well because it wouldn’t make sense for him to run away, so I agree that something accidental may have happened but I think that a kidnapping would have been more likely to happen. The reason being because the two dogs were not found, and sense in 2010 the dogs used to search the location again couldn’t even find the dogs remains as well. But it’s only my conclusion
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Nicely done as always. I end up with absences in my months, during which I miss you all very much. Thanks for all of your hard work, and your great spirit.
I've lived in Salt Lake for 40 years, went to the same HS as Reed, grew up in same neighborhoods, different generation. There are no large bodies of water , no rivers (small creeks if anything), and definitely no mine shafts near his home. Unless he walked up Emigration Canyon (essentially a 2 way road between two mountains) but even then, it's frequented by lots of people, he would have been hard to miss. Especially with two dogs. Very strange.
how sad, i hate these missing stories, i cant imagine the anguish of losing someone and never knowing where they went, My own brother went missing for a few days and was sadly found deceased by his own hand, that was bad enough, but never knowing would be a constant torment.
I may become unpopular for this, but I really do have to support the "accident" theory. He had no enemies, there was no motive to rob or abduct him, and a man with two dogs is a lousy target. By contrast, that notion of getting killed/lost while reducing someone else, often in a chain, has come up in disappearance cases before, like the Ghost Blimp of WWII or the Flannan Isles case.
I hate to say it, but . . . shit happens.
Sadly there is indeed motive to abduct young men. It's entirely possible someone approached and befriended him and the dogs, easy to order him to at gunpoint to tie the dogs to a tree and kill them or get in a vehicle. But an accident is also likely
He wasn't small either (5 foot 6 and 145 pounds). A good size teen boy with two hunting dogs seems like an overly difficult target for an abduction.
@@rockydify agreed, he most likely wasn’t abducted. It is possible he could have been lured somewhere compromising or that he and his dog had an unfortunate accident. Could be a hit and run. There’s so many possibilities with a case like this
Since when do killers need a motive to kill a little boy and two dogs? This country is full of sick people. You act like its unheard of. The "Accident" theory is just the safe way of thinking because people can't seem to cope without a safety net; Its easier on the mind to say it was an accident, instead of, you know, thinking outside the box.
@@ayylmao578 Rightt, a hit and run. You do realize that thats murder right? The people who follow this channel are slow beyond belief
This case is so sad I couldn't imagine losing a sibling and never knowing what happened to him I know the siblings hearts are broken and I pray for the family I hate it that the parents died not knowing what happened to their son God bless you all
What a shame, he must have been taken as he does not sound like a run away.
Thank You for your hard work
He looks like he was a great kid smh WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THESE SWEET PEOPLE. IM CRAVING ANSWERS VERY BAD.😔
This case makes me so sad because it involves a sweet teenager boy and his two beloved dogs. I think he and his two dogs drowned in a nearby body of water, a terrible accident, or he was abducted and killed along with his two beloved dogs. This is a very sad, terrible case. So many years and it has not been resolved. So tragic, I cannot imagine the emotional pain for those two parents losing their teenager son in such horrible circumstances, never knowing about him.
I'm well aware of this case from the Charley Project. However, without knowing the geography of the area it's hard for me to visualise this as an accident
He would have to have gone pretty far to get up the canyon from there, especially to where he wouldn’t be found.
That's a strange one as dogs don't leave their family/master without exceptionally good cause. Maybe both got into difficulties on the lake and he tried to save them but you'd think clothing would turn up on the shore at some point if he drowned. Another intriguing video DC!
The part that had me scared was that guy cutting carrots.
Yes that was very odd. Not only the strange manner in which he cut them, but they looked like they were already peeled & roasted 🥕🤔
Hey, that’s where I live. But I’ve never heard of this case before.
That's cos Mormons are secretive and don't believe that they can actually lie about their lives to non-Mormons
It seems improbable that at 15 years old, he could just make himself disappear for more than a year or so. Plus to do this he probably would have taken more belongings with him (at least all of his money). For me that leaves an accident, or foul play being the strongest possibilities. But then, what kind of accident would eave no trace of him, or the dogs (even after 40+ yrs)?
Maybe he was injured, and released the dogs in hope they'd bring back help.
I think he likely met with foul play. Because he was wearing braces, I hope someone thought to go searching for his body using a metal detector.
Oh this is so sad but so strange at the same time
So heartbreaking and I'm sure it was extremely frustrating as well!! This truly was a tragedy. I would lose my mind if anything ever happened to my kids!!
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How sad for the family!!! My first thought was a water issue, as both dogs are water types. If the puppy got into trouble and both Reed and the adult dog could be trying to help. As for abduction, I think that would be only likely if it was someone Reed and the dogs were comfortable with. Yet he was out briefly, to exercise the dogs, so I don't think he'd have gone far and needed a ride back home. Hoping the family finds answers very soon.
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The dogs were valuable, maybe someone stole the dogs and done something to Reed. Hunting dog theft used to be a big problem.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Hunting dogs were an important commodity back then and worth some money.
Otherwise its hard to imagine that someone would attack him While having 2 dogs with him and really no other motive.
Unless they were hit by a vehicle and someone panicked and disposed of them elsewhere.
These enigmas drive me crazy!
Poor Reed. I lean towards the theory that he was taken against his will. Although we can never know what's truly going on in someone's mind, it doesn't seem as if Reed was the type to run away. How awful for his family, having to live their lives without ever knowing what happened to him.
He was training the dogs for hunting so my theory is he came across someone who saw value in those dogs either to sell or for his personal hunting use. Good and trained hunting dogs were and still are very valuable in hunting communities so they kidnapped/killed him, stole the dogs and buried him on their private property
@@Jay-ov4gl I never thought about the dogs being trained for hunting. Maybe someone wanted the dogs for themselves, as you said. But to actually kill Reed in order for that to happen seems extreme. If that's what happened I wonder why they didn't just take them by force, but not hurt Reed? 🤔 These unsolved disappearances are so sad.
I just found your sister's channel. You're both great. Keep up the great work 👍
It’s is scary & intriguing(??) how these disappearances (crimes) remain unsolved for so long, half century. Staggering.
That is just awful... having to put down a marker with no date of death...just "Missing Since..." How absolutely heartbreaking..
I’m glad his sibling are still searching for answers.
Woah, I live near SLC and I've never heard of this case before. Crazy story. I wonder what happened to him...
Love your narrations. May I ask the meaning of using the elk head for your channel? Just curious 😀
:40 I too am from a family of 11. 8 girls & 3 boys. Dad was from a family of 12 & Mom a family of 7. Mom & Dad were married 43 years when he died. I miss him 🥺
The fact both dogs were never found honestly makes me think the dogs were the target, not the boy. Dog theft is really common where I'm from and pretty lucrative for certain breeds especially if they are trained (such as for hunting). If someone passing through saw 2 valuable dogs and only a kid to defend them, my first thought is they just grabbed him and both dogs. Whether they just got rid of him somewhere out of sight, or kept him around (maybe to keep the dogs easier to manage) and dumped him later out of area who knows. But I thought it was weird this didn't come up as a theory, since if you just look at the dogs as a valuable item, they were an easy target. Maybe even arranged by someone who knew or had seem them before since it mentions he always took the dogs out and trained them a lot. Just a theory but odd it wasn't considered by police.
So happy to see your upload!! Thank you!!
Horrendous. So horrendous. So hard for his family.
There is a theory that Reed Jeppson was a victim of a teenage hit-run driver. It's so sad that no one has told the truth about Reed Jeppson in over 1/2 century.
Probably taken at gunpoint, dogs included to keep suspicion away as long as possible. If he fell in a ravine or got lost (unlikely) those dogs would have eventually come home. Very sad. Could even have been a member of their church or family friend.
He was training the dogs for hunting so my theory is he came across someone who saw value in those dogs either to sell or for his personal hunting use. Good and trained hunting dogs were and still are very valuable in hunting communities so they kidnapped/killed him, stole the dogs and buried him on their private property
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Great story! Love the way you read. Guessing by your accent you’re not American born and yet you pronounce our language better than readers born here. I look forward to your uploads.
She is Scottish, have you checked out her sister Kirsty Skye.
Sounds like an Irish brogue to me... I love it!
You not hear the Lassie's Scottish mate??.🏴🏴🏴. We do tend to pronounce words better then Americans..you're correct.
The narrator is Scottish
“He didn’t have any reasons to run away “.... this statement always rings alarm bells to me. Not that it could be relevant in this case but one never knows.
This reminded me of poor Keith Bennett from the moors murders!!! So sad!!
The intro music is different? I like it 💕
I thought it sounded slightly different, too.
Yes; it’s slightly different 👍🏻 I like the original one but probably because it’s what I was expecting to hear ! 😏
Spruced up recording I think. Arrangement is the same.
I love your voice and accent. I find it very calming.
Absolutely heartbreaking every which way you look at it.
Just baffling how these children (& adults) can just seemingly vanish without trace.
Internet sleuths are required here💕
Go you Good Things...💐🌟💕
Wishing all of you the best of health and please stay safe... Don't go hiking or adventuring like you used to be.. just stay home with your family or loved ones..
there's something wrong with your environment, I tell you..
Maybe somebody powerful in your country,are sacrificing its citizens, without we noticing it,hence the Missing 411..
Very sad for this family to never have answers.
Great narration... If you visit Quebec City, Canada, I'll buy you some beers, great Lady! 🍻
The missing dogs are the biggest clue. Old mine shaft? Septic? A predator would have trouble managing all three of them. So sad!
"it's highly unlikely that we will never know what truly happened to Reed..." you meant: it's highly likely we will never know...or it's highly unlikely we will ever know...
I heard that too lol
Searching the comments to see if anyone else had spotted that.
So you're looking to correct someone's grammar? I bet you're a scream at parties.
How@@gregh7400 Do you actually know what grammar is cause that slip was not grammar!
@@gregh7400 that's not grammar Greg lol and they weren't being nasty and hateful. So why make that snarky and childish little remark? Why are you even triggered by it in the first place?
Those disappearing cases are the saddest
Honestly, he and the dogs probably fell into a cave. The cave density in SLC is moderate, also the map of the area suggests his route was most immersed with forest. Also not all caves look like caves. Some look like holes--the dogs could have ran into one chasing an animal or sound and fell in, along with the boy.
First, I appreciate and like your channel very much. I realize this video was posted a year ago, however, I just want to correct some misinformation. Hope you don’t mind. I’ve been researching Reed’s disappearance for some time now. Many old newspaper articles state that Reed told his sister he was taking his dogs for a walk. That misinformation is repeated over and over again. In fact, Reed did not tell his sister Suzanne he was taking his dogs for a walk. She clearly states on numerous news interviews with reporters that Reed simply stated he was going out to feed his two dogs. She told him to be back inside in 30 minutes for dinner. He replied that he definitely would be, and he walked out the kitchen door with the two cans of dog food. The time was 12:45pm as verified by police detective Cody Lougy of the SLC Police and Suzanne Jeppson Tate. For Reed to be on time for dinner he would need to be at the dinner table by 1:15pm. Even if one considers the possibility that Reed did take the dogs for a walk and was seen out by St Mary of the Wasatch school, there is no way he could have made it home by 1:15pm, and especially not with two dogs. He would have known this. The family had an evening church service at 4:00pm and Reed would never have challenged the family’s structured schedule on Sundays which was church in the morning, day and evening. Also the statement from the individual who reported they saw whom they thought to be Reed with his two dogs at 1:00pm, was actually never able to be confirmed. No one could back up or substantiate this claim since nobody else was with this person or saw the person. I just wanted to update because of the misinformation out there. My personal opinion is that this is one of the numerous reasons this case has never been solved. Again, you have a great channel!
seems like something would have to happen to the two dogs before anything happened to reed. whatever their fate was, it happened to all three simultaneously. I'm guessing the adult dog had something happen to it, reed went to save it, protect it, etcetera and met a terrible fate such as getting lost, drowning, falling hard in the utah environment and the puppy was left all on its own, not being able to take care of itself
The case's where children and animals go missing is heart breaking Alma and Glen Australia
The most disturbing thing other than the young lad vanishing, is the fact that BOTH dogs were never seen again. What stopped either of them from returning home?? Could Reed have been attacked and the poor dogs killed whilst trying to protect him?? Dogs run fast and usually can find their home again, someone would've had to catch them both. Finding out what happened to the unfortunate dogs would surely lead to what ever happened to Reed.🤷
Rest ln Peace Reed and your beautiful pups.
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Nobody considered that he might run away...wouldn't leave his dogs behind of course...
100% foul play. I'm sorry but no mere accident makes someone vanish off the face of the earth like that.
Door knock on 5:58 creeped me out
I pray they find him.
Poor boy (even though, if still alive, he's five years older than I am). BTW, "trainers" in British English = "sneakers" in American English.
Baffling is a good word for his disappearance...
Very strange case.
When you said he had a paper route it reminded me of jonny the child that was scouted out by traffickers and taken. I hope that is not what happened. The family must be so broken from this. Very sad.
That’s exactly what I thought
That documentary sure started me down a hell of a rabbit hole. You can't unknow that once you know it. I looked at the world a whole lot differently after that. Johnny Gosch. "Who Took Johnny?".
I thought the same
I was just thinking of you.
Ask the church what happened to him!!
what are the sounds that are made in the background?
Sounds like Reed might've met someone who seemed friendly & wanted to chat. They spoke awhile & when Reed realized he was late for dinner, this person offered him & his dogs a ride home. Only he took Reed & the pups elsewhere, sadly. Even worse, it may have been someone Reed trusted. Being a child/teen in a large family can be tough, because attention is usually spread pretty thinly. So some kids are drawn to or seek parental substitutes. And this is exactly what predators watch for in their victims.)
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My hypothesis, as an Ex-Catholic gay who's had arguably too many ex-Mormon gay exes?
Reed was at about the age when most teens, specifically those who end up LGBTQ, are questioning their sexuality. This was not only the 1950s, but he was Mormon.
The Mormon family is relevant for a number of reasons, but especially the fact that the insistence that Reed was "normal," whereas most parents at that time would have said their missing teen boy was "average," suggests that they may have had some suspicions of their own about Reed's sexuality, but were intent on putting it out of sight and it is mind. Even Mormon teens in the 1950s dated, but there's no mention of him having had a girlfriend, steady or otherwise -just that he was "popular" and had plenty of friends. Plus, Mormons have a very cultish way of interacting with those who are "outsiders" from the LDS Church, and knowing that SLC has people living there besides Mormons, they absolutely would not have said anything about any family issues to the press, and probably not even to cops who they didn't personally recognise from church (and even then, said hypothetical cops would have probably kept it out of the records).
After church, it's typical for many kids of other Xian denominations to go out and do whatever, but Mormons generally prefer to stay with the family, the rest of the day. The fact that it was part of Reed's routine to not just feed the dogs, after changing out of his church garb, but to _specifically go out walking the dogs, by himself, in the woods behind the house_ suggests a teen who wants to recover from church in literally the only way he knows how to, and with the only members of the family who won't judge him.
I don't think that he had himself a game of Bottom of the River and Never Come Back, cos even as a football player, after looking up the dog breed, and knowing one was an adult dog trained at birding, it's unlikely for him to successfully have taken both dogs with him, and the adult dog would have found its way back home. Plus, as pointed out, the presence of the dogs would have intimidated a potential abductor.
Whether or not Reed is still alive is anyone's guess, but my guess is that Reed was figuring out that he was probably gay, and just quietly left home to make a new life for himself. He had contacts in Montana, and he was fairly "outdoorsy," so it's possible that when he found his way out of SLC, he took to hitching to Montana, perhaps having made contact with any friend(s) Reed had confided in about his questioning sexuality, so that he could safely start the process of starting over.
Excellent points!
Girl, that's too much to read. Keep it short. But maybe he seen something he wasn't supposed to be. So they killed him but what would've happened to the dogs??
Mormons tend not to date until age 16, and Reed was 15, so the lack of girlfriend isn't especially strange. Going out with the dogs isn't that odd either, you don't generally socialize outside of the family on Sundays but being in nature/solo contemplation is v normal/encouraged. And I think that if he were questioning his sexuality it's very likely someone would know. Growing up in the 50s, in that part of SLC, I'd expect him to have confided in a parent and/or his bishop (which didn't really become less common until the AIDS crisis and increased activism started to pretty publicly reveal how much the official advice to marry a woman and hope for the best but otherwise you're on your own, wasn't working), and even if they kept that secret at the time, I'd expect it to have come up in the decades since as stigma's decreased and he's remained missing. It just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that any of the adults in his life would have taken deliberately to the grave, and with his siblings still looking for him, if they thought that were a possibility I think they'd have brought it up by now.
@@jmfia2391 he never said they killed him and even if they did they'd have probably killed the dogs as well to make it more believable
Very plausible.
My heart God out too the family 🙏🙏
Heart breaking
That sounds like some one he knew took him. I also agree with Francis. Still tragic!!! Thank You!!! 🤔🤷♂️👍😎🌹💙
My first thought was he was killed for the dogs. Purebred well trained hunting dogs are very valuable
Local area, if you gaze at a map....has a 200 ft wide stream. It's not fast moving but I could see a case where the dogs entered....had problems, and he took the risk of jumping in.
A real mystery.
There are sinkholes in that are of Utah, I wonder if that is what happens. It just makes me wonder with the dogs missing too.
5:57 Who is knocking at the door?