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Ogden cold case closed after investigators obtain prison confession

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Billmayer's family said they're relieved that he's "no longer just a missing person." "Everything had to go right," said Ogden Police Detective Douglas Dunbar, one of the lead investigators, in an interview with KSL. "It feels good," Rounkles said.

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