UT Lisa Redmond, 36, murdered during pizza delivery, inmate Donald Eugene Younge Jr., now 57, charged with murder May 2024 - Salt Lake City, 9 Dec 1996

[ifindedout]

Cold Case Cracked: Suspect charged 28 years after West Valley mother's murder

A huge case break was announced Thursday in a horrific crime that became a total mystery in the West Valley City community, for nearly 30 years.

ksltv.com

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill, along with West Valley City Police Chief Colleen Jacobs held a press conference to explain how detectives solved the murder of Lisa Redmond.

Lisa Redmond, a 36-year-old mother of two, was killed in 1996. Her murder had never been solved.

Redmond was working as a Pizza Hut delivery driver and was last seen alive on Dec. 9, 1996, at 9:45 p.m., making her last delivery of the night. Later that night, she was found dead on the side of the road near 5200 West 3100 South. She was found wearing her Pizza Hut uniform and when the business was contacted, they confirmed Redmond was one of their drivers and had not returned from her deliveries.

[...]

The man now suspected of the killing, is someone police believe has victimized other women.

Standing up at the podium, [Gill] announced his office filed charges of first-degree murder, first-degree aggravated kidnapping, and first-degree aggravated robbery against now 57-year-old Donald Eugene Younge Jr.

[...]

“He is currently at the Utah State Prison on sexual assault convictions… that also started in 1996,” Gill explained.

 

[ifindedout]

Charges filed in 28-year-old cold case murder of pizza delivery driver

Prosecutors say a suspect has been identified and charged in the murder of a pizza delivery driver nearly three decades ago.

kutv.com

Gill said after Redmond was murdered, investigators only had a few leads. In 2009, Younge was extradited to Utah to face charges in a 1996 sexual assault, convicted and sentenced to 30 years to life in the Utah State Prison.

More recently, investigators took another look at the evidence that Gill said included a knife and blood, which was eventually linked to Younge.

Investigators got Younge's DNA back in 2002 and questioned him in 2019.

When asked why charges are just now being brought, Gill said, "Doing the work of resampling, testing some of those samples that were not tested, and so it's putting those pieces together."

 

[dotr]

Charges filed in 1996 cold case homicide of West Valley City pizza delivery woman

A man already serving time in the Utah State Prison for raping a University of Utah college student in 1996 — and who was also once charged with killing a second U. student — is now accused of killing a pizza delivery woman in West Valley City about the same time.

www.ksl.com

Donald Eugene Younge Jr., 57, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with murder, aggravated kidnaping and aggravated robbery, all first-degree felonies.''