MISSING: Reed Jeppson
Reed Jeppson, a Salt Lake City teen, went outside to feed his dogs one Sunday afternoon in 1964 – and vanished, with the dogs, into thin air. Decades later, his heartbroken family still has so many unanswered questions.
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Reed Jeppson in his high school sophomore class picture.
Photo Source: Courtesy, Salt Lake City Police Department
Reed and one of his beloved dogs, Bess.
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Reed Jeppson’s Dog Bess
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An aerial of Jeppson’s neighborhood in 1965.
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A historic topographic map of Salt Lake City from 1963 shows the location of the former St. Mary of the Wasatch School.
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Neighbors of the Jeppsons found what investigators say are the bones of two dogs buried in their yard in 2009.
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Decades after Reed went missing, the Jeppson’s neighbors found bones — which investigators say are the bones of two dogs — wrapped in plastic bags and buried in their yard.
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A picture that the Jeppson’s neighbors took of bones they found buried in their yard, which investigators say are the bones of two dogs.
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A picture that the Jeppson’s neighbors took of bones they found buried in their yard, which investigators say are the bones of two dogs.
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The Jeppson’s neighbors asked another neighbor, a doctor, to look at the bones they found buried in their yard.
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Hikers found a human skull in Millcreek Canyon in 2010. Reed’s sister initially thought it might be her brother’s.
The Millcreek Canyon remains were eventually identified as belonging to Daniel Noe, who went missing around September 1978 while hitchhiking from Washington to his home state of Illinois.
The backyard of the (now-former) Jeppson property as of 2023.
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Salt Lake City PD Lt Cody Lougy and Cordon Parks
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Cordon Parks, a retired homicide investigator, in the (now-former) Jeppson backyard.
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Please contact the authorities If you have any information about the following:
The Disappearance of Reed Jeppson
If you have any information about Reed, please contact Salt Lake City police at 801-799-3000.
If Reed is alive today, he’s 74-years-old. He’s white, with medium blond hair and blue eyes. At the time of his disappearance, he was 5’6 and 140 pounds, and he had braces on his top and bottom teeth.
Episode Source Material
- Salt Lake City Police Department records
- Salt Lake County property records
- Deseret News: Still Hunt for Youth
- The Salt Lake Tribune: Police Solicit Hiker Help in Boy Hunt
- The Salt Lake Tribune: S.L. Asks Hunters’ Help in Teen Search
- Deseret News: Human remains found in Olympus Cove area by Pat Reavy
- Deseret News: Salt Lake police reopen case of boy missing for 45 years by Pat Reavy
- Deseret News: Shattered: After public moves on, families of missing left wondering about what happened to their loved ones by Lois M. Collins
- The Salt Lake Tribune: Search of Salt Lake City gully yields no sign of teen missing since 1964 by Michael McFall
- ABC4 Utah: The Justice Files: Reed Jeppson simply vanished by Marcos Ortiz
- ABC4 Utah: Missing in Utah: Reed Jeppson simply vanished Pt. 2 by Marcos Ortiz
- Podcast: Notes from Jon with a babble from Bon
- Episode 18 – Disappearance of Jon’s brother, Reed
- YouTube: The Jon Jeppson Story: A Life of Adversity, Trial and Faith
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