‘We’re scared’: Vigil held for slain Moab couple as residents seek answers
8/25/21
A candlelight vigil was held Sunday for
two women found shot to death in the La Sal Mountains near Moab a week ago.
Kylen “Ky” Carrol Schulte, 24, and Crystal Michelle Turner, 38, also known as Crystal Beck, were recently married and living out of their vehicles. Friends say because they couldn’t afford housing in Moab, they camped during the summer in the mountains and drove to work in Moab each day.
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At some point during the weekend, the women called friends to say they were moving to another campsite because of a “weirdo camping near them that was freaking them out,” according to a social media posts.
Schulte worked at the Moonflower Community Cooperative. On Aug. 18, after the women had been missing for a couple of days, store owner and family friend Cindy Sue Hunter decided she needed to go into the mountains to look for them.
“I’m going to just start driving. I’m going to look over the edge of cliffs. I’m going to look in ravines, because my thought was they had gotten in an accident. And there are so many places you can go off the road up there,” she said.
She went to the Pack Creek area and Geyser Pass. Hunter said she didn’t know where to look, but she got strong feelings about where to go and believes she was guided by the deceased couple themselves.
“I don’t know how I found them, other than listening,” Hunter said, “I’m listening, you have to help me find them. You have to help me find you. And they did.”
Out of the corner of her eye, in a secluded area, Hunter saw their campsite.