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Convicted killer Ralph Leroy Menzies spotlights Utah's capital punishment conundrum.
I was working the night shift at The Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 23, 1986, when police-scanner radio traffic grabbed my attention. It was something to do with a possible abduction.
I was working the night shift at The Salt Lake Tribune on Feb. 23, 1986, when police-scanner radio traffic grabbed my attention. It was something to do with a possible abduction. Maureen Hunsaker—a 26-year-old wife and mother—had been kidnapped from a gas-and-go where she worked late hours.
Two days later, her body was found in Big Cottonwood Canyon tied to a tree, her throat slit. Shortly thereafter, Ralph LeRoy Menzies was arrested on an unrelated charge and, when he changed into a jail jumpsuit, Hunsaker's driver license was found in his street clothes.
On March 8, 1988, Menzies was found…
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