The remains of a man who disappeared more than 20 years ago when he headed to his family’s cabin have been found inside a car submerged in a Utah reservoir.
The Sheriff’s Office of Salt Lake County announced Tuesday that the human remains recovered last year of a reservoir in Duchesne County have been identified as Steven Willard Anderson, 46, which disappeared in 2004.
Utah’s office of the Forensic Doctor and a private laboratory used DNA tests to identify Anderson’s remains. A dirty game is not suspected in his death, and the case was officially closed on Tuesday after decades of uncertainty for the family, Sheriff’s office said.
Salt Lake County Sheriff
Anderson left his home in Murray to make a trip of more than 200 miles to his family’s cabin in Flaming George, Utah, Utah, KUTV CBS Affiliate reported. When he did not answer his father’s phone call, his father went to the cabin to find him.
Anderson’s relatives said he was driving a leased vehicle to paint some paint, but never arrived, according to Utah’s public security department. His daughter, Emily, in 2022 told Kutv that she believed that her father and the vehicle could be submerged somewhere.
The old cold case caught the attention of Doug Bishop by United Search Corps, a non -profit organization that specializes in cases of missing people, and Dave Sparks, a Utah businessman and Internet personality. The couple reported their search efforts in videos published on YouTube and began working with the police last spring.
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