on Aug. 26, 1982, from a park in David County, according to the Utah Department of Public Safety’s Bureau of Criminal Identification. Her body was found weeks later, on Sept. 19, 1982, in a remote area of Morgan County. Rachael’s abduction changed Utah’s approach to missing-child cases.
Utah's Rachael Runyan cold case remains unsolved 44 years later
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