UT UT - Kiplyn Davis, 15, Spanish Fork, 2 May 1995

[beakiebean]

How horrible-of course I suppose we couldn't expect better from someone like him but it would be nice if he could show even a sliver of decency and do the right thing.

Becca

 

[2sisters]

The latest news I heard on the search, and that was from an article of the Deseret News last week or the week before, was that Timmy Brent Olson took authorities to find her body. He took them to three different places before he admitted he was just "playing with them."

Sick SOB. Tell where Kiplyn is!!

what do they have to lose by bring them to the body? they are in enough trouble already.

 

[jaybird]

Kiplyn's family got a little taste of justice today. Timmy Brent Olson got sentenced to 12 years for perjury.

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=663098

Hope this sucker has a hard time in the slammer.

 

[Rle7]

Jury selection is underway today for the trial of a man accused of lying during the investigation into the disappearance of Spanish Fork teenager Kiplyn Davis.

Christopher Neal Jeppson, a 30-year-old West Jordan resident, is charged with six counts of perjury and three counts of making false statements.

He faces up to five years on each count if convicted.

About 70 potential jurors were summoned to the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell in Salt Lake City, more than the usual number because of intense media coverage about the case. The trial is expected to last through Friday.

Kiplyn was 15 and nearing the end of her sophomore year at Spanish Fork High School when she vanished on May 2, 1995. She has never been found.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6798772?source=rss

 

[Taximom]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6830369

Man convicted of lying in Kiplyn Davis investigation
Spanish Fork teen has been missing since 1995
By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 09/07/2007 08:55:29 PM MDT
Posted: 8:55 PM-
For years, Christopher Neal Jeppson stuck to his story that he was hanging lights in the Spanish Fork High School auditorium for almost 12 hours on the day in 1995 that classmate Kiplyn Davis disappeared.
Federal prosecutors said he was lying. On Friday, a jury agreed, convicting Jeppson of one count of perjury and three counts of making false statements.
Family members of the 30-year-old West Jordan man cried as the verdict was announced in U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell's courtroom. Jeppson remains free until his Nov. 28 sentencing, when he faces up to five years in prison on each count.
For Kiplyn's family, the guilty verdict was another step in finding the girl, who is presumed dead. Her parents, Richard and Tamara Davis, believe that the conviction could prompt someone to reveal where her body is buried.
"It's a wonderful day," father Richard Davis said outside the downtown Salt Lake City courthouse. "Prayers do get answered."
U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman said the conviction sends a message that "you cannot lie and get away with it."


I hope he gets the max 5 yrs for each count.

 

[mysteriew]

Family is pleading for help in finding teens body. Talks about the lying/perjury convictions.

Olsen and Jeppson being charged with murder!
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7101507

 

[mysteriew]

Family is pleading for help in finding teens body. Talks about the lying/perjury convictions.

Olsen and Jeppson being charged with murder!
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_7101507

 

[Taximom]

Ran across this LKL transcript from 6/26/2002 where they speak a little about Kiplyn. John Walsh was a guest:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0206/26/lkl.00.html
KING: But we have another Utah girl missing, Kiplyn Davis missing from Spanish Fork, Utah, not far from Salt Lake, under suspicious circumstances since 1995. She was 16.

What happened to her story?

WALSH: Hate this case. I hate this case.

Here's an intact family; a good family. Here's a girl that came home from school every day at 3:30. Usually if you have a runaway, they take, you know, a wallet, they take a teddy bear, they take something. There's some indication that there's problems in the family, or they got a boyfriend, et cetera.

One cop obviously said, you know what? I think this girl is a runaway. The family -- you don't know.

I watched the family the other night. They were on a show, and they were talking about, why did Elizabeth Smart get this attention in 1995? Why didn't we get any attention? We couldn't get anybody in the media involved in this.

KING: The answer is because the cop said it was...

WALSH: Cop says, hey, she's 15 years old, she probably ran away.

But you know what? You and I have talked about this. Twenty- seven of Ted Bundy's 29 victims were listed as voluntarily missing or runaways when they were women that had kids, or that they were -- you know, it's...

KING: By the way, how are the Salt Lake City, in your opinion, police and FBI handling all this?

WALSH: Well, they're working closely together. The Mormon community is very tight-lipped. And I think in the beginning that the FBI said to the Mormon police, we're here to help you. I mean, you know...

KING: Lot of Mormon policemen?

WALSH: There are a lot. I mean, you know, 800,000 people in Utah of the million-or-so people there are Mormons. I mean, et cetera. I think they're working closely together. But this Kiplyn Davis case really, really bothers me, and really disturbs me because somebody made an arbitrary decision -- one cop. I think that just because this girl didn't come home from school one afternoon, she's a runaway. I don't think any cop in this country has the arbitrary right to make that decision.

KING: How should it be handled?

WALSH: It should be handled -- do you know what they should be doing right away, is say, OK, let's look into this. She's 15 years old. She comes home every day. Mom and dad are OK. They're not divorced. There's no problems here. Let's go to school and see if she had any problems at school. Does she have a shaky boyfriend?

KING: There was no big investigation?

WALSH: None whatsoever. It was, you know, she's a runaway...

KING: And now she's still listed as a runaway?

WALSH: Now, well, I think they're relooking at this because the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has done a computer-enhanced picture of what this girl may look like. And I think they're looking back and saying, you know what, we might have made a mistake.

 

[mysteriew]

That had to have been so hard for Kiplyn's family. She has been gone for 12 years now. The persons now accused of her murder have been suspected for some time. Yet authorities have always said they didn't have enough evidence to charge them. And these guys are going around bragging and parents are hearing this and knowing they are free and their daughter is still missing. That had to have made it more difficult.
This is one of those cases that I think about now and then. I am glad they are finally charging them with her murder. At least the parents will have that- though I know that won't be enough.

 

[SuziQ]

I just found this thread and haven't read through it. But I am familiar with this story. An interesting side note to this is Kiplyn's mom discussed the fact that her husband disappears for hours at a time. She's never discussed it with her husband. She knows where he goes though. He hikes the local canyons looking for their daughter.

I wish these creeps would tell Kiplyns parents where she is.

 

[SuziQ]

A judge today is expected to decide if prosecutors have enough evidence to try two men for the alleged murder of a 15-year-old Spanish Fork girl who disappeared in 1995.
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2491581

 

[SuziQ]

A Utah County judge ruled late this afternoon that two men charged with killing missing teenager Kiplyn Davis will stand trial, but he also expressed concern about a lack of evidence. The judge ruled that even without a body, any eyewitnesses to the crime, or forensic evidence, there is enough evidence against the two men for them to stand trial. However, it takes a low standard of evidence to go to trial, and a jury has to find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt to convict
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=2491581

 

[Rle7]

Five men were indicted on perjury charges in the 1995 disappearance of Kiplyn Davis, a Spanish Fork teenager who is presumed dead:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695246457,00.html

 

[Rle7]

Since pleading guilty to a federal perjury charge, David Rucker Leifson has been a free man while he awaits his sentencing hearing. But if federal prosecutors find that he violated the terms of his pretrial release, he may be waiting in jail until that happens.

Leifson, a suspect in the disappearance of Spanish Fork teen Kiplyn Davis in 1995, was in U.S. District Court on Wednesday after federal prosecutors raised the issue of allegations by his ex-girlfriend that he threatened her.

The allegation was reported to North Salt Lake police in August, about two months before he pleaded guilty to one charge of lying to a federal grand jury that was investigating Davis's disappearance.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Carlos Esqueda told Judge David Nuffer that prosecutors want to talk to Leifson's ex-girlfriend to determine the veracity of her claims. If the claims are substantiated, Esqueda said, prosecutors will file a motion asking that Leifson be detained until his sentencing.

"We have a bare-bones police report. I'd like to get some more information," Esqueda said.

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/252782/17/

 

[SuziQ]

New Search for the Body of Kiplyn Davis?

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=27736992-f838-4758-8772-3b890bc13fdb

 

[thefragile7393]

I hope this time they find her. WHY dosn't anyone tell where the body is?!? What do they have to lose now?

 

[NewMommy09]

New Search for the Body of Kiplyn Davis?

http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=27736992-f838-4758-8772-3b890bc13fdb

SQ,

Being local, what are your thoughts on where they put Kiplyn's body? I have always thought they threw it down one of the MANY mineshafts in the mountains. I'm not sure they will ever find her. I have never forgotten Kiplyn and probably never will. It's one of those cases that hits too close to home.


Prayers for Kiplyn's family to see justice served and put these many horrific trying years behind them to seek some peace.

 

[SuziQ]

SQ,

Being local, what are your thoughts on where they put Kiplyn's body? I have always thought they threw it down one of the MANY mineshafts in the mountains. I'm not sure they will ever find her. I have never forgotten Kiplyn and probably never will. It's one of those cases that hits too close to home.


Prayers for Kiplyn's family to see justice served and put these many horrific trying years behind them to seek some peace.

I never thought of the mineshafts. Good lord there are a ton of them in that area. That would make sense. High Schoolers would know all those places. You ever heard the rumor that she's buried under an office building in Spanish Fork? That her body was moved from the mountains. One of them worked there doing construction or something like that?

 

[SuziQ]

Here is a little more info tonight. SH are you familiar with Spanish Fork River Park? It's not ringing a bell for me.
http://www.kutv.com/content/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=27736992-f838-4758-8772-3b890bc13fdb

(snip)
The Daily Herald on Monday cited a source inside the Utah County Sheriff's Office that claimed authorities are actively searching the canyon for Davis' body. On Sunday, the report said, authorities blocked off a road near Spanish Fork River Park and were planning to take digging and earth-moving equipment to the area.

Witnesses said tractors were taken into the area, but because the public is not allowed beyond a barricade it was unclear what the equipment was used for or whether anything was dug up.

 

[SuziQ]

I hope this time they find her. WHY dosn't anyone tell where the body is?!? What do they have to lose now?

I know. I was hoping enough pressure was on this bunch years ago to convince them say where she is. What a long drawn out ordeal for her family.