With help from crowd-sourcing, experts, DNA donations, a new database, and cash as bait, a group has set its sights on a tough challenge: Solving the 200-plus unsolved murders and disappearances on the books in Utah.
For the first time ever, reward money will be offered toward solving each of those cold cases, founders of the Utah Cold Case Coalition — a nonprofit made up of lawyers, investigators, volunteers and companies — announced Tuesday.
Karra Porter, a Salt Lake City lawyer and one of the coalition’s founders, said the rewards will start at $3,000 for information that leads to a conviction — or, she said, “a conviction in our minds” — that resolves one of these cases.