Detective who ignored Lauren McCluskey’s concerns before her killing was fired by the University of Utah for mishandling another young woman’s case
That student had trapped the teenage girl in his dorm room. He screamed in a voicemail that he would kill her. And the campus detective similarly left for the weekend without taking any action.
For that repeated lack of urgency, Dallof was fired. The Salt Lake Tribune obtained her termination notice this week.
It’s the strongest disciplinary action, so far, to come out of the campus police department’s many missteps leading up to McCluskey’s killing on Oct. 22, shortcomings that were detailed in an independent critical review. U. President Ruth Watkins had said shortly after McCluskey’s death that no individual officers would be punished for how they had handled the student’s case. The president has held to that.
