Bodies Found in The Jordan River: A Homeless Killer in Salt Lake City?

In Utah Stories on-going interviews with unsheltered homeless individuals we learned from two homeless people that up to several dozen homeless people have been murdered in the past eight months. Is this true?

As of Friday July 27th, The SLCPD is refusing to speak about, or provide any statements about the rumored homeless murders occurring in downtown Salt Lake City. We learned investigative journalist Eric Peterson, that despite homeless relief organizations and homeless individuals coming forward with substantial evidence, the SLCPD is not currently investigating any murders of homeless individulas in their homicide unit. Or if they are, they will not speak about it.

After contacting the SLCPD PR department they would not go on the record, but only provided a very basic response saying “there has only been one body found near the Jordan River in the past two weeks, but there was no foul play detected in the death of the individual.

SLCPD tells Utah Stories we must conduct a GRAMA request to gain any additional information in relation to the murders of homeless people that are occurring. According to our two sources, the murders are exceeding four dozen souls.

It appears that the lives of the homeless and those who have been squeezed out of the housing market are in peril and the SLCPD made no comment about any ongoing investigations into finding the "serial killer" as one homeless single mother, Brooke has described.