UT UT - Thomas Walling, 9, found floating in the Malad River, had been missing from a foster home for ~2 weeks, Box Elder County, 9 Jul 1983

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Thomas Joseph Walling​

• DOB: 1/21/1974
• Height: 4'0"
• Weight: 90 lbs
• Date Last Seen: 6/27/1983
• Date of Death: 7/9/1983
• Case #: 83-0472
• type: unsolvedhomicide

Thomas Walling was found floating in the Malad River. Thomas had been missing from a foster home for approximately two weeks before his body was found. I f you have any information contact the Box Elder County Sheriffs Office Box Elder County Sheriffs Office (435) 734-3800

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Clipping from The Salt Lake Tribune - Newspapers.com

 

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This article discusses the possibility of convicted serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop, who killed multiple children, being responsible

SOMETIME AFTER 12:01 A.M. FRIDAY, ARTHUR

Sometime after 12:01 a.m. Friday, Arthur Gary Bishop will be strapped to a gurney and his right arm punctured by an intravenous tube, through which a deadly mixture of potassium cyanide will flow to cause his death.

www.deseret.com

Published: June 8, 1988, 12:00 a.m. MDT

Bishop remains a suspect in the June 24, 1983, disappearance of Thomas J. Walling, a 9-year-old boy who ran away from a foster home and was later found floating in the Malad River

"I was at one time fully satisfied that Bishop did it," said Limb, who has interviewed Bishop twice about the killing. "At one time I was 90 percent certain of it."

Now, Limb is less certain, "maybe 50-50."

The time frame of the Walling murder fits perfectly with the June 1983 Troy Ward murder and the July 1983 Graeme Cunningham murder, both of them victims of Bishop.

And there was circumstantial physical evidence linking Bishop to the scene of the Walling murder.

In addition, Walling was murdered in the same manner - beaten on the head with a blunt object - as were Ward, Cunningham and Daniels, and his body was disposed of in a river, as were the bodies of Bishop's other two 1983 victims.