WY WY - Virginia Uden, 32, & her 2 kids, Lander, 12 Sept 1980 *G. Uden guilty*

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Uden bodies to be raised from bottom of deep lake

The Fremont County Sheriff's Office has said it intends to recover the remains of Gerald Uden's three victims from the bottom of Fremont Lake, if they are there. The effort to locate the bodies, however, will have to wait until next year.

http://www.dailyranger.com/story.ph...-bodies-to-be-raised-from-bottom-of-deep-lake

 

[teedie2]

Amazing, after all these years. Re the guilty parties ... proves birds of a feather flock together! If I were either one of them, I would have been afraid to close my eyes to sleep. How could either one trust the other?

What a shame, 4 people dead, but I'm so glad to hear that they will have justice.

 

[fran]

Gerald Uden pleads guilty to the 1980 murders of his family, gives detailed account of the murders

(Lander, Wyo.) – In a packed courtroom this afternoon, Gerald Uden, 71, pleaded guilty to the 1980 murders of Virginia Uden, Richard Uden and Reagan Uden, and will be serving a life sentence for the crimes.

In order for the court to accept his guilty pleas, Uden gave a detailed account of the events leading up to and after the murders, ultimately saying he has no excuse for why he did what he did. Virginia was 32, Richard was 12, and Reagan was 10.

Per a plea agreement the state agreed to not seek the death penalty.

more at link ............ http://county10.com/2013/11/01/gera...urders-family-gives-detailed-account-murders/




Gerald Uden admits slaying ex, 2 kids, in 1980, gets life

He said Virginia asked him to adopt her children. He did but she filed for divorce six weeks later.

Gerald then married Alice. While some investigators have thought that child support was his motive, Uden said paying child support was not a problem.

He said he finally ended up "having to make a choice" between Alice and Virginia.

full article at link .............. http://trib.com/news/state-and-regi...cle_3cd09955-3e4c-59a1-aee4-a1caf0854fa6.html

 

[fran]

Alice Uden Pleads Not Guilty

LARAMIE, Wyo. – Alice Uden, a woman accused of murdering her ex-husband in the mid-1970’s, pleaded not guilty in an arraignment on Nov. 14.

According to the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Wyoming, a jury trial has been set for Uden on Feb. 3, 2014 at 9 a.m.

more at link .......... http://www.ozarksfirst.com/story/alice-uden-pleads-not-guilty/d/story/Yk2SOnG8nkSFAyyu8OXtmA

 

[CatFancier]

Parents’ Murder Charges Were Shocking, Daughter Says

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/01/parents-murder-charges-were-shocking-daughter-says/

 

[PrairieWind]

Uden bodies to be raised from bottom of deep lake

The Fremont County Sheriff's Office has said it intends to recover the remains of Gerald Uden's three victims from the bottom of Fremont Lake, if they are there. The effort to locate the bodies, however, will have to wait until next year.

http://www.dailyranger.com/story.ph...-bodies-to-be-raised-from-bottom-of-deep-lake

I hope the Sheriff is successful in locating the bodies this summer, so that the three can have a decent burial and markers so that they can be remembered. Lost on the bottom of a lake under 450 feet of cold water seems so sad. I don't know what those barrels would look like after all those years, might be in decent condition. The water temp is probably only few degrees above freezing. The bodies would probably be intact.

 

[zwiebel]

Daughter has spoken about her parents. The full interview's in The People, Friday.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...ri-woman-shocking-discovery-article-1.1588087

 

[zwiebel]

One of the articles says he drilled holes in the steel barrels to allow water to enter and ensure they would sink. It's possible small fish etc could also get in. I doubt the bodies could be intact if that's the case, but would hope all the skeletal remains have stayed together inside.

I wonder if one of those side sonar vessels would be any good in this case? Detecting three metal barrels would be easier than locating skeletal remains, I'd think. Retrieving them from 450 feet down would be another matter though.

Some more recent articles here.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20778420,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ned-happily-married-parents-killed-their.html

 

[smile22]

justice for richard regan and virginia sad of the outcome but may you finally rest in peace

 

[JudysSisterMaureen]

God rest their souls. I sure hope they find the barrels. This does give hope to every cold case out there. I cannot believe that two animals could conspire to commit such a heinous crime -and then go on and live their lives as though nothing had happened. That's really disturbing.

 

[CA Lady]

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/776e6ebbdab94ef0b248789164571582/WY--Cold-Case-Slayings

Judge grants 1-month postponement in Missouri woman's trial for Wyoming in cold-case killing

A judge postponed the trial of a Missouri woman accused of killing her husband and dumping his body in a mine in the mid-1970s.

Alice Uden, 74, had been scheduled for a Feb. 3 jury trial. Her attorney, Donald Miller, told a judge that he had another trial scheduled for that day.

"Additionally, much of the evidence and witnesses from 1974, the date of the alleged act in this case, have been difficult to locate," Miller wrote in his motion to Laramie County District Judge Steven Sharpe.

Sharpe granted the request Wednesday and postponed the first-degree murder trial until March 4. Uden remained jailed on $250,000 bond.

 

[PrairieWind]

I am not sure why this is in an Illinois newspaper, but still a good article. A small search of the lake had been started, but had to be called off because of winter. The winter is brutal there.

http://www.bnd.com/2014/02/06/3043464/winter-suspends-search-in-wyo.html

 

[Hogansmama]

It looks like Alice Uden's trial has been rescheduled once again.


http://m.therepublic.com/view/story/9909e9163fe948f2aa191e018be4a9ce/WY--Cold-Case-Slayings


"Sharpe recently rescheduled from March 4 to April 29."





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[Blondie in Spokane]

"Son tells elderly mother, 75, 'I hate you' and that she admitted to him she killed her third husband in his sleep"

"Todd Scott, 53, of Casper, testified that his mother, Alice Uden, told him in the 1970s she'd shot her third husband 25-year-old Ronald Holtz as he slept"

"Uden is on currently on trial for Holtz's death"

"Scott said he later told anyone who would listen about what his mother had said to try to 'rip this demon out of me'

"Gerald Uden, Alice Uden's fourth and current husband, pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison for killing his ex-wife and her two children in 1980"


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-mother-hates-murder-trial.html#ixzz30dk2qNru

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.news-leader.com/story/ne...an-gets-life-term-killing-husband-s/14601719/

A judge in Wyoming sentenced a 75-year-old Missouri woman to life in prison on Monday for killing her husband with a rifle in the mid-1970s, then throwing his body down the shaft of an abandoned gold mine where it remained for nearly 40 years...

In May, jurors in Cheyenne didn’t buy Uden’s argument that she shot Holtz in the head to defend her toddler daughter from him. They found her guilty of second-degree murder.

 

[Salem]

Did he say what he did with the bodies? Have they been recovered?

Salem

 

[Salem]

http://www.news-leader.com/story/ne...an-gets-life-term-killing-husband-s/14601719/

Husband plead guilty and his current wife was found guilty of the different murders.

Here is the link to the case in Trials: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?223296&p=10897112#post10897112

Salem

 

[OkieGranny]

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regi...cle_df37e479-45b6-5818-aa95-efeadd82c1e9.html

Authorities are searching a Sublette County lake for the bodies of three people who disappeared in 1980.

The Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation, the Fremont County Sheriff's Office, and a marine salvage company began the search of Fremont Lake on Thursday.

The lake is as deep as 600 feet in places. Sheriff Skip Hornecker said searchers are using deep-water sonar and diving equipment.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

A search was announced in April to take place in the summer. I'm guessing nothing was found but it's a large area so it will probably take a few more attempts before anything else is discovered.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765672089/Lake-search-for-bodies-of-woman-kids-murdered-30-years-ago.html

Investigators once again are preparing to search a deep lake near Pinedale for the bodies of a woman and her two children murdered in rural Fremont County more than 30 years ago.

Authorities searched Fremont Lake in neighboring Sublette County in late 2013 and again last summer for the bodies of 32-year-old Virginia Uden and her sons, 11-year-old Richard Uden and 10-year-old Reagan Uden.

He told a courtroom he put the bodies in barrels and initially stashed the barrels in a mine. He said he retrieved the barrels sometime later and used his boat to dump them in the lake.

The search for the remains is a big challenge by any measure. Fremont Lake measures 10 miles long and about a mile wide. At 600 feet, it's among the deepest lakes in the U.S.

http://www.pinedaleroundup.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&page=72&story_id=4062 - June 18th, 2015

But this boat, belonging to the county, is part of a repeat effort by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Sublette and Fremont County law enforcement and search-and-rescue volunteers to find and lay to rest a cold case involving a confessed murderer, Gerald Uden, 73, who is spending the rest of his life in prison.

Last year’s search for two barrels Uden said he sank in Fremont Lake that contained three people he had killed was not successful, according to DCI Deputy Director Kebin Haller.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Updated Charley Project links:

Reagan Uden

Richard Uden

Virginia Uden

The ID Network focused on this case last year for an episode of Married with Secrets.

Someone who was interviewed for the program wrote about the case:

https://www.sheridanmedia.com/news/tv-show-scheduled-about-grisly-murder-mother-and-her-two-boys-37-years-ago92799

Investigation Discovery, a network featuring the solving of horrible crimes, was in Wyoming this past week filming the story about how Virginia Uden and her two sons were murdered in Fremont County 37 years ago.

Their bodies have never been recovered but law enforcement folks think they know where the bodies are located; the murderer has confessed and is serving time for the crime.

Gerald claims he put Virginia, Reagan and Richard in barrels and sunk the bodies to the bottom of the deepest lake in Wyoming, Fremont Lake east of Pinedale.

Fremont County deputies have tried to find those barrels, but to no avail.