Hopes rise for finding Spanish Fork girl's body

The parents of a 15-year-old Spanish Fork girl who has been missing for over a decade say the recent arrest and indictment of yet a third man in connection with the disappearance is a significant step toward bringing their daughter's body home.

"It's time to find her, it's been a long 10 years," said Kiplyn Davis' mother, Tamara Davis, outside federal court Monday.

Federal prosecutors gave hope to the Davises, calling the arrest and indictment of 28-year-old Timmy Brent Olsen on 20 counts of lying before a grand jury a big development in the case.

U.S. Attorney Paul Warner said testimony by several witnesses links Olsen directly to the disappearance, and possible murder, of Davis.

Olsen made a brief appearance Monday before a U.S. District Court magistrate, pleading not guilty on all counts. If convicted, his sentence could add up to a maximum of 100 years in prison.

Warner said a number of witnesses have put together a story that drastically conflicts with Olsen's, adding there was enough evidence to charge him with perjury.

Olsen, who was arrested in West Valley City on Friday, is said to have been a senior and fellow classmate of Davis at Spanish Fork High School when she vanished from the school on May 2, 1995.

According to the indictment unsealed Monday, numerous unnamed witnesses testified hearing Olsen say he drove Davis up a nearby canyon that day with a yet-to-be-identified man and then returned from the canyon without Davis.

In sometimes conflicting testimony, witnesses told prosecutors that Olsen had mentioned that the second man and Davis had gotten out of the truck and "went for a walk" while Olsen stayed in the truck. "They were gone for a while and that just the male person came back and got into the truck with you or got in the truck and sped off?" a prosecutor asked Olsen during a grand jury hearing on April 28.

Olsen denied that.

Other witnesses also put Olsen with Davis, "sluffing class" on the day she disappeared.

In chilling testimony, unnamed witnesses told a grand jury about hearing Olsen brag about killing Davis himself.

One witness testified hearing Olsen say, "I've done it once and I can do it again," while another witness claimed Olsen said, "I took her, I beat her and disposed of the body."