June 25, 2025

Chapter 108: Secrets in Spanish Fork-The Disappearance of Kiplyn Davis

In 1995, 15-year-old Kiplyn Davis disappeared in broad daylight from her high school in Spanish Fork, Utah. Her belongings were abandoned in her locker, and she never made it to her afternoon classes. No one has seen her since. Thirty years later, the mystery of what happened to Kiplyn has endured in a community that refuses to forget her. However, as the years have passed, the ties that have bound family and friends together have begun to come undone, and secrets have started to emerge, which begs the question: how long can someone stay quiet when what they've done starts to come into the light?

Anyone who has any information that can lead to the discovery of Kiplyn's remains is asked to call the Spanish Fork police department at (801) 798-5070 or (801) 804-4700. Alternatively, you can call the FBI field office at 801-374-5332.

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Hello, Hello, Welcome to the next chapter in the Book

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of the Dead. Thirty years ago, a bright, vivacious, fifteen

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year old girl skipped her afternoon classes and disappeared without

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a trace. Her belongings were left abandoned in her Locker

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and her family left the porch light on every single

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night as a beacon, urging her to come home home.

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As the years passed, rumors of what happened to her

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circled around a tight knit community who wanted answers just

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as badly as her parents did, but those who had

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those answers chose silence until the truth started catching up

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to them. This is the disappearance of Kiplan Davis. Kiplan

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Davis was born on July first, nineteen seventy nine, to

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Richard and Tamara Davis in Provo, Utah. She was the

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third child in the family. She had an older brother

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named Rory and an older sister named Hailey. Six years later,

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Kiplan's younger sister, Carrissa, was born, and Kiplan was overjoyed.

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From what Carissa said, she and Kiplin had a very

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special bond and they loved dancing together. According to The

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care of Carissa while their parents were at work, doing

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her hair, helping with homework, and always ready to involve

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Carissa in anything she was doing. She was also incredibly

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outgoing and could make friends with anybody. Carissa said, quote

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a shy, quiet type of person. Kiplin had a vibrant

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personality and loved to laugh with her friends. Her friend

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so kind to everybody, just a fun, bubbly personality. She

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loved to laugh. We would giggle for hours. As Kiplin

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got older, like most teenage girls, she was very into

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makeup and spends a lot of time getting ready for

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school in the morning. She had long, red, curly hair

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that she always made sure was done and loved putting

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her makeup on for the day. According to the Salt

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of Kiplan quote, she was cute, prissy and pretty. She

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always had her hair so done up. In the spring

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of nineteen ninety five, Kiplin was fifteen years old and

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a sophomore at Spanish Borg High School, located eight blocks

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from her home. That spring, Kiplin was very excited to

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be getting her driver's license and looking forward to the

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activity she had planned that were coming up, including her

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older sister's wedding Richards said quote she was excited about

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her driver's training, a place she was in, and she

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was excited about the young women's group in church. According

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her future. Kiplan wanted to attend either Southern Utah University

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or Utah Valley State College, both of which were close

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to home, allowing her to be near her family. She

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dreamed of becoming a kindergarten teacher due to her love

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for children. On the morning of May second, nineteen ninety five,

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Kiplan woke up to get ready for her driver's at

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class that day. At some point before she left to

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leave for school, according to The Charlie Project, Kiplan got

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into an argument with her parents, presumably about not having

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enough time to put makeup on before her class was

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to start. From what I can gather, it didn't seem

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like much of an argument, but more that Kiplan was

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irritated about not having the time to get ready the

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way that she wanted to. Kiplin's morning goes by as

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usual by all accounts. She attends her morning classes and

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is seen eating lunch with her friends. However, she doesn't

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attend her afternoon classes, which is unusual. And the school

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leaves a message on the Davis's answering machine informing Richard

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and Tamara that Kiplan was absent in the afternoon. While

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this isn't necessarily a cause for concern, as sometimes teenagers

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just skip class, Kiplan was also very active in her

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drama club, and there was a rehearsal in the smaller

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of the two auditoriums that afternoon. Spanish Bord High School's

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production of The Foreigner, in which Kiplin was a prompter,

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was opening in three days, and the cast and crew

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were hard at work to be ready for opening night. However,

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Kiplin never made it to the dress rehearsal. In fact,

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no one had seen Kiplin since lunchtime that day, and

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her friends in the drama program were worried. According to

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an article in the Daily Herald, those who weren't involved

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in the rehearsal that afternoon searched the school for her.

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When rehearsal finished, the others joined the search as well,

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but no one could find Kiplin. However, while her friends

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were worried, the staff at the high school was not.

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Assistant principal for the school, Darryl Rolfe, who was a

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counselor in nineteen ninety five said that they had adopted

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a wait and see attitude, but the longer it went,

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the more difficult it became for the students. When Kiplin

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didn't come home from school that day, Carissa, who was

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nine at the time, was worried. She said, quote, usually

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my sister would take care of me and help me

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with my homework and stuff like that. My parents were

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at work. At around five pm, when Richard and Tamara

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arrive home and Kiplan still isn't there, they called the

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police to report their daughter missing. After their own start

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at the school failed to give them any sort of

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idea as to where Kiplin could be. Initially, though, police

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operated under the assumption that Kiplin was a runaway. She

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was at an age where teenagers would run off for

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a few hours or a day or so, and she

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had reportedly had that argument with her parents about wanting

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to do her makeup before school started. She had, also,

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according to her father, started skipping two of her classes

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the week before, something that was not like Kiplin at all. However,

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Richard and Tamara were adamant that Kiplin hadn't left on

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her own. Kiplin was not a troubled child, and there

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were no obvious problems in her life. In fact, the

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only things that Richard could think of that his daughter

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was even remotely upset about was a date and not

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making the drill team at school. There was nothing else

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going on in Kiplan's life that would be a cause

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for concern or be reason enough for her to want

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to run away. With police and the school not taking

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Kiplin's disappearance seriously, her family took it upon themselves to

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try and find her. Carissa suggested putting up flyers that

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very night, and Richard drove around every single evening for weeks,

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hoping that he would see a sign of Kiplin. Her

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locker was searched at the high school, and inside her purse, makeup, retainer,

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and school books were found, reinforcing the idea that Kiplin

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hadn't run away for her to leave behind. Her makeup

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in purse, especially when she was known to care about

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her appearance, showed that wherever Kiplin had gone after lunch

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on the day she went missing, she had every intention

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of returning to the school. Strangers still were the alleged

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sightings of Kiplin on May third, the day after she

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failed to return, home. She was allegedly seen in a

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strange car and also seen walking on Center Street, but

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as far as I can tell, these sightings were never

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substantiated as fact. Two weeks after Kiplan was first reported missing,

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her case was upgraded from a runaway to a missing person,

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and police and her friends and family covered Spanish Fork

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in flyers pleading for her return or any information leading

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to her whereabouts. According to The Daily Herald, first responders

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handed out over six thousand flyers and went knocking on

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every door in the city and surrounding areas. At a

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press conference her family gave after the upgrade to her case,

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Kiplan's older sister, Haley said, quote, we love her and

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we want her to come home. And Richard spoke of

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how difficult things had been for his family since her

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disappearance and poleaded for Kiplin to come home. He said, quote,

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we love her, We're not mad at her. If there's

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something that's hurt her feelings or anything, please come home

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and we'll work it out. I just want to be

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her father and have her under my roofs so I

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can protect her. We drive around at night hoping to

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find that needle in the haystack. We hope that she

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walks in one night and knows that we love her

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and this is her home. After the press conference and

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due to the efforts of investigators, more leads came in

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about Kiplan's case, with some people saying she had been

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seen in the Springville area, possibly at University Mall in Orum,

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and there were alleged sightings in the surrounding states. While

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police were following every lead, even seventeen days after her disappearance,

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they were still reluctant to consider that Kiplin had run

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into any sort of foul play. The lead investigator, Detective

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Morgan Warner, said that while the dragnet would have at

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least found some at evidence, if not Kiplin herself, as

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she were a runaway quote, we have no reason as

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far as the physical evidence that foul play has occurred.

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We are proceeding with the investigation about possible wrongful acts

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that may have occurred. They also had rumors to contend with, though,

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everything from Kiplin being killed as part of a Satanic

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ritual and a psychic alleging she had been murdered and

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her remains had been scattered as far as the Colorado border.

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During the investigation and especially after the FBI was brought

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into aid. In the search, various students were questioned about

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Kiplin's last movements, most notably for boys who were in

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the drama program with Kiplin, Scott Brunson, Tim Olsen, Christopher Jebson,

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and David Leifsen. Also questioned was a Gary Blackmore, who

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didn't attend Spanish Fork High School nor did he know Kiplin,

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but he was friends with the others. All five boys

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were older than Kiplin, between the ages of sixteen and eighteen,

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and all had interesting stories to tell. According to The

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Daily Herald, Scott Brunson told FBI agent Mike Anderson that

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tim Olsen was with him all day on May second,

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and they were building a shed together. Chris Jepson said

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that he had seen Kiplin after lunch, but then he

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spent the next twelve hours working on the lights in

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the school's larger auditorium. He claimed tim Olsen and David

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Leifsin showed up around three PM and stayed with him,

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throwing a football around until about seven or eight PM

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before leaving. And this is particularly interesting because the school's

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choir was practicing in that auditorium that evening, and no

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one could remember seeing any of the boys there. Chris

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also claimed that Tim and David were at his home

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with him when he returned from school. When the news

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about Kiplin being missing made its way around the community,

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Tim himself originally claimed he was installing sprinklers, before changing

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his story and claiming he spent the day with Scott

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working on the shed. While police and the FBI were

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suspicious of the teenager stories due to a lack of evidence,

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they couldn't do anything but allow all of the boys

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to get on with their lives, but the cloud of

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suspicion around them never fully went away. As the weeks

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and months passed, Kiplan's case grew cold, much to the

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despair of her family. In October of nineteen ninety six,

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according to court records, Tim Olsen agreed to take a

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polygraph test administered by FBI agent Ronald Homer. However, Tim

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claimed in the pre interview, at least initially, that he

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had no memory of what happened on May second, nineteen

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ninety five. At Homer's urging to just be honest, Alson

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claimed that he had driven to Spanish for a canyon

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and saw David Ruckerleifsin and Kiplin together in Leaps and car.

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According to his written statement, Tim said quote on May second,

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nineteen ninety five, I, Tim Olson saw Kiplin and Rucker

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up Spanish for a canyon in Rucker's ranger, and I

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know it was Rucker. I followed Rucker out of the

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canyon and down Center Street. I remember Rucker and Kiplin

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talking because I was there. He then claimed that Leifson

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and Kiplin walked away, but only leif Sin came back

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and told him not to worry about where Kiplan was. However,

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Tim then crumpled up this statement and threw it away,

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refusing to speak further about any potential involvement Leibsen had

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in Kiplan's disappearance. In December, due to the efforts of

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the company ADVO Inc, flyers with Kiplin's picture were distributed

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to sixty one million homes throughout the country as part

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of a national mailing feature in the hope someone would

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come forward with valuable information. ADVO worked with the National

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Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and at the time

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Kipler flyer was to be mailed out, had aided in

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the safe recovery of seventy nine children. Of their efforts,

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Kelly Lombardi, the manager of government relations for ADVOS, said quote,

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all families in this situation want some type of closure.

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We're just hoping people will look in their mailboxes and

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be able to tell us what happened to Kiplan. Of

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the feature, coupled with the FBI's ten thousand dollars reward,

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Kiplin's family was hopeful that a substantial lead would come

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out of it, especially considering that America's Most Wanted and

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the Polyclouse Foundation also got involved in Kiplan's case. Richards

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said quote, Realistically, we think something bad has happened to her.

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We're hoping that that isn't the case, but with everyone

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doing everything they can to help, we feel good that

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the ball will keep rolling until this does come to

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an end. In nineteen ninety nine, even though progress still

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had not been made, the Davis family had a headstone

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place in Spanish porg Cemetery with Kiplan's name and data,

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so that they would have somewhere to go and be

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close to her. Even though the years were continuing to

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pass with no word on what happened to Kiplin, the

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Davis family refused to lose hope, optimistic that while they

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believed Kiplin was no longer living, they would one day

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get the answers they were looking for and be able

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to bring Kiplin's body home to rest. The Davis family's

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porch light had stayed on day and night since the

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day she had gone missing as a beacon to guide

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their daughter home, even as the investigation floundered, and many

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of the businesses in the area had kept Kiplin's missing

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flyers posted and refused to take them down until she

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was found. In two thousand and three, though, the Davis

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family received a ray of hope when fellow Utah native

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Elizabeth Smart was found alive after being kidnapped at night

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point from her Salt Lake City bedroom this summer before.

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Richard and tamaraw were thrilled for the Smarts, but there

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was an understandable bit of jealousy as well. Elizabeth's case

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had received national attention, but Kiplan's case has only ever

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been featured in local papers, primarily the Daily Herald. As

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a result, though, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, Richard

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and Tamara went to the US Attorney for Utah, Paul Warner,

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and asked for help. Warner agreed to convene a federal

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grand jury to investigate Kiplan's case. Finally, the family was

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starting to get results. That April, after going over every

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statement made, as well as tracking down countless witnesses. One

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by one, Scott Brunson, Gary Blackmore, David Leafsin, Chris Jepson,

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and Tim Olsen were all indicted on numerous charges of

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perjury and making false statements to police and federal investigators.

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Spanish Work as a community, though surprised at these men,

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who were teenagers at the time of kiplin disappearance were

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possibly involved, were vocal about the belief that they had

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help from their parents in covering up any potential involvement.

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Wayne Roach said quote, I don't see how that many

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kids could be involved and their parents not know anything.

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And Richard Shumway said quote, we pride ourselves on having

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strong family values, but in this case, maybe those values

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were a little too strong, those family ties a little

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too binding. Two days before the tenth anniversary of Kiplan's

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disappearance in April of two thousand and five, the first

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arrest was made. According to his indictment, Scott Brunson was

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alleged to have made numerous false statements to agent Mike Anderson,

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including quote falsely representing that a person known to the

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grand jury but referred to in the indictment as an

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unnamed person, never told him of his involvement in Kiplin

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Davis's disappearance. It further alleges that brn denied ever having

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been asked by an unnamed person to provide a false

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alibi as to his whereabouts on the day Miss Davis disappeared.

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He did plead not guilty and was released from prison

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with the stipulation that he not leave the state of Utah,

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consume alcohol or controlled substances, contact the two witnesses named

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in the indictment, or have any firearms in his possession.

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When Brunson went to trial in December, though, he gave

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a sworn statement admitting that he lied. He said quote,

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I knowingly lied to the grand jury when asked whether

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Timmy Brent Olsen asked me to tell anyone who asked

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that he was with me working on a shed at

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my home. Timmy Brent Olson did ask me to create

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a false alibi for May second, nineteen ninety five. In

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August of two thousand and five, Gary Blackmore was arrested

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and indicted on four accounts of giving a false or

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fictitious statement to the FBI, and one count of perjury

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in front of a federal grand jury. Melody ride Al,

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the spokeswoman for the US Attorney's office, told the Daily Herald, quote,

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evidence has developed that Blackmore has information from two people

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who are not named in the indictment, but who are

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known to the grand jury, and this information we believe

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is material to the investigation. According to the indictment, the

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first four accounts of giving a false statement involved a

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discussion with agent Mike Anderson in which Gary claimed that

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he never discussed Kiplan's disappearance with these two witnesses. This

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discussion reportedly involved Blackmore approaching two people and asking them

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where they would dispose of a body in nineteen ninety seven.

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The fifth count referred to him saying in front of

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the grand jury that he never discussed Kiblan's disappearance with

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three of the men names in the indictment. Blackmore ultimately

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struck a plea bargain and served thirteen months in prison.

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David Lee Leifsen was indicted on six charges of perjury,

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and he, according two stories of the Unsulvet, had been

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charged with Kiplan's murder. But he pleaded guilty to the

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third count of perjury in a plea deal where he

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lied to the grand jury about confronting Tim Olsen in

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front of two other people about Olsen alluding to the

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fact that Leifsen was responsible for Kiplan's disappearance and death

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during that pre interview for his polygraph. Had he told

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the truth, that the grand jury hearing the FBI could

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have further investigated Olsen for his potential involvement. Leifson was

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ultimately sentenced to forty eight months in prison, as well

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as three years of supervised release. He did appeal this

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based on the fact that he believed the court airred

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in sentencing him under the accessory after the fact cross

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reference guidelines two second Great Murder and his claims that

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his perjury did not abstruct the investigation, as well as

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the fact that he claimed he was not informed that

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the EBI was conducting a murder investigation about Kiplan's case.

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This appeal was denied. Chris Jepson was arrested in two

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thousand and five for perjury and making false statements. Specifically,

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according to KSL, he was accused of telling people that

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he knew who killed Kiplin. And at another time claiming

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that he was present when Kiplan's body was buried under

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a building that was under construction in nineteen eighty five.

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It is worth mentioning, though, that this seemed to be false.

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Kiplin's remains were not present at that particular location. During

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his initial trial, Richard and Samara testified that Jepson had

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actually come to their home about a year after Kiplin disappeared.

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Jepson had claimed to police he was there in preparation

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for an LDS church mission and had shown up to

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apologize about making rude and vulgar statements to Kiplin in

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the past, something that Kiplin had actually written about in

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her diary. She had liked Jepson and he allegedly made

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sexual comments towards her, but the Davis has said Jepson

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had come to tell them that he had nothing to

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do with Kiplan's disappearance and wanted to clear his conscience.

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In October of two thousand and seven, according to the

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Charlie Project, Jepson was charged with Kiplan's murder, but right

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before going to trial in May of two thousand and nine,

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he struck a plea deal. He pleaded no contest to

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obstruction of justice, and the prosecution agreed that he would

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no longer be charged with Kiplan's disappearance or death. He

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also signed an affidavit claiming he was not involved in

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her disappearance and had no idea what happened to her.

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Tim Olsen was arrested in September of two thousand and

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five and indicted on twenty counts of perjury, specifically that

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he quote made statements to several individuals implicating himself and

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another in Kiplan's disappearance in death. He then denied making

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those statements when asked about them under oath before the

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grand jury. The indictment also states that Olsen likely knew

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Chapter 108: Secrets in Spanish Fork-The Disappearance of Kiplyn Davis

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