The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 16

RJ The tiJt Like Tnbune UTAI I June IfS LWl Ogden is spooked by haunted houses I 20th NOftTH Police solve old mystery Millard homicide: Body found in 1990 is that of missing Seattle woman 2i St JLL 24t st -r- -D 2nh Sf JJL The IRS already occupies a new office building and is remodeling the historic Scowcroft Building just west of Dead Haven taking away some of the spook parking Bench says that even with all the development under way in downtown Ogden he fathom hy the city wants to get rid of haunted houses He and partner Warren Biaegger already have spent several weeks and $3000 preparing this year's interactive haunt brings people downtown just like the ball Bench said can see what try ing to accomplish but how is it better to let a building sit for 12 months out of the year instead of 11? It seems silly to me that you want to bring people Montgomery says the City Council will take public comment about the revised ordinance July 15 Kmoulton asltribcom Even without the tweaked ordinance the downtown day are numbered for example lost its home when the Ogden City Mall came down last year A longtime fixture at the boundary of Weber and Box Elder counties the Rocky Point Horror House had moved into the former Bon Marche store in the dj ing Ogden City Mill in the late 1990s It was renamed The House The city bought the mall in late 2001 and demolished it List year to ready the central Ogden property for a new mixed use development The second spook alley to move downtown in recent years Dead Haven came from the Newgate Mall at the border of Ogden and Riverdale four years ago Dead Haven is in an abandoned farm implement building on 23rd Street west of Lindquist Field home of the Ogden commission chains oman Donna Burdett just want to encourage empty buildings downtown that would be used for seasonal The current ordinance already prohibits temporary building uses but it needs to be reworded to be more explicit according to Greg Montgomery the planning manager Ideally a haunted house would not share walls with another building and would have its own parking so loitering customers do not interfere with neighboring businesses Montgomery explained the downtown area just not appropriate because of the effects on other Downtown business owners have not complained but property owners contemplating renovation have expressed concerns about haunted houses going in next door Montgomery said want buildings occupied all year" Downtown image: The city feels the seasonal spook alleys fit in with the new plan By Kristen Moulton The Suit ljake Tnbme For several ears downtown Ogden with its abandoned buildings and lonely streets has been a magnet for haunted house entertainment facilities Now ghostbusters at City Hall are putting a stop to the creeping industry The Planning Commission forwarded to the City Council a zoning ordinance clarification to ban spook alleys in the central business district They just fit downtown new image nor its reality as a happening place just trying so hard to rebuild Ogden to get permanent people back into the said Proposed off-limits area for haunted house HiH'FT Itif Soil itikt Tribune Raptors baseball team Dead Haven co-owner Jason Bench said Friday that his unde owns the building but probably will sell to the federal government which needs the projierty for its Internal Revenue Serv ice expansion downtown By Mark Hvvnes The Suit Lake Tribune The Millard County Sheriff's Office has identified a body found in October 1990 east of Interstate 15 in the Baker Canyon area as that of a Seattle woman Millard County officials have received a positive iden-tification from dental charts that the remains are of Patricia Candice Walsh who was 24 when she died Deer hunters found the body on top of a juniper tree-covered ridge She had multiple gunshot wounds to the head Audit at Snow College shows more money is missing in prison and probably will be required to make restitution Snow College President Michael Bern son said the Richfield financial and accounting functions including payroll accounts pavable and receiv- able human resources and purchasing have been consolidated into Snow College Ephraim campus He said the school will recover the first $100000 loss from its insurance Blackburn's attorney Earl Xais called the report and said of his client could show them where the money went rather than in his pockets But they had come to the conclusion that any amount they couldn't find a receipt for they attributed it to my sykesasltribcom 31 2002 We have identified questionable or inappropriate expenses made by several other campus employees dating back to The Office of Utah State Auditors which conducts routine audits of the public agencies and institutions initially uncovered the check-cashing scheme in January At that time Black-bum 48 admitted to and was fired He was charged on March 21 with 42 counts of fraud and embezzlement obstruction of justice and impeding the investigation by destroying documents Through an agreement with the county attorney he pleaded guilty June 3 to 36 counts before District Judge David Mower Sentencing is scheduled for July 15 Blackburn faces a maximum of 30 years County Attorney Don Brown In the report dated June 26 state auditors investigatmg the financial records from Aug 1 1996 to Dec 31 2002 found that Blackburn misappropriated $283600 by writing and endorsing college checks and cashing them himself The checks were never recorded in ledgers and copies were voided the report said The report went back only to August 1996 because many of the school's prior financial records wrere unavailable addition to the misappropriated state auditor Auston Johnson wrote have identified $27240 of personal and other questionable expenses that have been paid by the campus on behalf of the assistant vice president through the use of a campus credit card for the period July 1 2000 through Dec ByShinikaA Sykes The Suit Luke 7 nlnme The former administrator of Snow College in Richfield could face additional criminal charges now that a second audit has found that more than $300000 is missing rather than the $194000 discovered by a preliminary audit in February Kimble Blackburn who had been the assistant vice president for finance and facilities since its beginning in 1977 pleaded guilty earlier this month to 36 counts of embezzlement and fraud charges He is free on $25000 bail and scheduled to be sentenced next month plea agreement does not preclude additional said Sevier Long investigation: Capt John Kimball who has been pursing the case for more than 12 years said the remains of husband Douglas Scott Zyskowski were found in January 1990 near Interstate 10 east of Ozano Texas He was identified in 1992 Kimball believes the two were killed by the same person The connection between the two bodies was discovered earlier this month when a worker for the Department of Justice in California told Texas Ranger Brooks Long who has been trying to find wife about an inquiry from Kimball about the Utah body received a copy of the dental charts and forwarded them to said Kipiball I Dental records: Walter Birkby a retired forensics anthropologist from the University of Arizona at Tucson matched the dental records with ones he made from thq remains He had been assisting on the case since 1992 positive who it is but are still going to conduct DNA Kimball said He said police are developing a suspect list but would not elaborate Between 1989 and 1993 the bodjes of six women who were murdered in a similar style were dumped along Interstates 15 70 80 Not all of the bodies have beep identified It Husband charged: The body of BaJhara Kaye Williams 42 of Florida was found in March 1991 and identified in March 1999 Her former husband Howell Williams of Fort Myers Fla was charged in her murder The body of Ermelinda Garza Sherman 32 of Las Vegas who had been shot in the head was foqnd in St George in 1992 and thq decomposed remains of Vikki Lynn Perkins 19 were found in May 1989 along Interstate 70 near Green River Investigators believe Perkins was strangled Police from different agencies saw enough similarities to sug-' a possible serial killer but the only arrest so far has been of Howell tBodies of other women were found off Interstate 80 near Rock Springs Wyo and Elko Nev I A brother's quest: brother Adam Walsh visited with Millard County sheriffs officials June 17 the day after identification was made Kimball said he has been searching from Georgia to Seattle trying to locate his sister since she disapiieared Kirnball said Walsh and Zyskowski 28 left the Seattle area in November 1989 and traveled south to Georgia preaching th Christian gospel The two were members of an extreme Christian group that advocated giving up earthly possessions in the belief that God will provide said Kimball They had reportedly married while traveling and were last heard frqin In a telephone call from San Aqtonio iKimball believes that after bhtxitlng Zyskowski the killer held Walsh hostage until he shot heir in Millard County i i I TYlh frftrtfnitnwi ill ijwrniMiwBfi Copy I.