Police Seek More Tips in Case of Slain Moab Campers Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner, Who Feared a ‘Creep’

Authorities in Utah have issued a uncommon public attraction for potential witnesses to return ahead within the August homicide of a married couple who complained of encountering a “creep” shortly earlier than they had been discovered shot to demise at a campsite close to Moab.

“We’re asking that anybody that may have been within the South Mesa space between the dates of August thirteenth, August 14th, and fifteenth contact our workplace with something they might have seen or heard,” the Grand County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a statement late Tuesday, offering the newest replace on the investigation into the killing of Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner (often known as Crystal Beck).

The newlyweds had been reported lacking on Aug. 16, solely to be discovered two days later murdered in a creek close to their campsite within the South Mesa space of the La Sal Mountains.

They had been final seen having enjoyable with associates in a tavern in Moab, and so they might have unwittingly supplied the strongest tip into their very own murders by revealing that “a creep” was staying subsequent to their campsite. The unidentified person had reportedly left them so unnerved they thought of shifting their campsite to a different spot.

Six weeks into the investigation, nonetheless, police are tight-lipped about any leads. In Tuesday’s assertion, the Grand County Sheriff’s Workplace stated solely that it was persevering with to comply with up on suggestions obtained from the general public, and that “the response has benefited this workplace within the investigation.”

On the identical time, nonetheless, the sheriff’s workplace warned that forensic evaluation on “gadgets of curiosity on this case” might take “a number of months or extra to finish.”

Schulte’s father, Sean-Paul Schulte, has stored up his personal investigative efforts individually from the police. The Salt Lake Tribune reviews he arrange a “clue sales space” in a Moab park this month the place members of the general public might cease by and supply any data to the case that they assume is related.

“All I did was simply present a venue for native people to return down and inform me clues,” he instructed native information station KSTU.

“Over two weeks, I in all probability acquired 30 or 35 clues, and you recognize, possibly solely 4 or 5 of them had been not likely good clues,” he stated, noting that he passes all the guidelines he receives on to the sheriff’s workplace.

One current tip reportedly concerned a marriage that befell the night time earlier than the couple disappeared, only a half a mile from the place they had been later discovered slain.

Schulte is alleged to have obtained the visitor checklist from the occasion, which comprises the names of greater than 100 company, however the household says authorities have thus far not responded to his supply at hand over the checklist. Police haven’t commented on whether or not the visitor checklist was of their possession.

The Grand County Sheriff’s Workplace has additionally been fast to close down hypothesis that the murders of Schulte and Beck had been by some means linked to the case of Gabby Petito, a fellow camper who had been on the town together with her fiancé Brian Laundrie shortly earlier than she vanished. Petito was subsequently discovered useless in a Wyoming nationwide park on Sept. 19, setting off a large-scale seek for Laundrie, who stays within the wind.

A lot of the eye on that case has targeted on Moab, the place police bodycam footage and witness accounts of a home dispute between the pair appeared to point out indicators of impending doom weeks earlier than Petito fell sufferer to murder. One of many couple’s arguments additionally reportedly befell exterior the identical grocery co-op the place Crystal Turner had labored.

However even Schulte’s father conceded that thus far, any hyperlinks between the 2 instances look like fairly flimsy.

“I imply, we want actual clues that may determine a suspect, not, you recognize, Gabby and Brian had been near us,” he was quoted telling KSTU.