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These Utahns hope to help solve old crimes by magnet fishing for guns in Ogden’s rivers

The Weber River • It’s an idyllic Saturday morning along two rivers that run through Ogden. Bikers travel in pairs down the parkway. A group of teens play frisbee golf. Dogs run through a park.

There are a few anglers here, casting out their lines in hopes of landing a big catch. We’re here to go fishing, too — but we’re not out for trout.

I’m with the Utah Cold Case Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to investigating unsolved crimes in the Beehive State.

Karra Porter, a Utah attorney who co-founded the coalition, has told me that there have been a number of murders near the Weber and Ogden rivers that are still unsolved years later.