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Posted on 05/26/2025 1:22:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
On October 12, 1973, Douglas Brick walked out of his dorm at the U and vanished... his disappearance remained a mystery known only by an ever-shrinking circle of people who knew Brick as a brother, a friend, or a roommate...
In 2022, University Police hired a crime data analyst, Nikol Mitchell, who, in her work with Utah's Statewide Information and Analysis Center (SIAC) discovered that the U had a cold case that had been lost for at least 20 years.
Major Heather Sturzenegger was the investigations lieutenant at the time...
Then, the first glimmer came. They discovered that Brick's sister had called university dispatch in 2018 to ask about her brother's case, which couldn't be found. Using information from that call, Dial flew to California to meet Brick's sister and retrieve her DNA through a cheek swab. If Brick was a John Doe in the national system, they would know as soon as they added that sample...
In December 2022, Sturzenegger happened to go with her daughter to a doctor's appointment in the office of Steven Warren, whom she had never met. They began chatting about what kind of work Sturzenegger did, and where, when Warren off-handedly said, "That's strange, when I was a student at the U in 1973, my roommate went missing."
...It turned out that Warren was the one who reported Brick's disappearance, and called his family, and found his abandoned car. He confirmed what Dial and Sturzenegger needed to know: the search area where he and police officers had hiked over and over, looking for Brick...
Then, last October, almost to the day Brick had first gone missing in 1973, hunters found two fragments of a human skull about six miles above the white block U on the hill.
(Excerpt) Read more at attheu.utah.edu ...
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Photo of Douglas Brick from The Daily Utah Chronicle, 1973TUOH
This one gave me cold chills.
Fragments? Bear?
Probably just missed, then gradually fragmented due to weathering and/or scavenging.
At least his sister got some closure.
I'm glad, and obviously she really needed it. Her call described in the article was 45 years after his having gone missing may not have been the first one, but that was happened to have been written down and the account saved.
Born in 1950. He looks like a lot of the Geeky kids I went to HS with. I hope it was just a fall but am glad his family were able to have news of what happened to him.
It’s impressive input by the psychic, they don’t give her name unless I missed it. I don’t believe in psychics.
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