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Young victims

Published: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:40 p.m. MDT
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Tara Stark, 10, Roy — Found in an irrigation ditch on Oct. 13, 1992. Sean Winget, then 15, strangled Stark on their walk home from school; Winget was found guilty of manslaughter but mentally ill and has been released from prison on parole.

Stephanie Blundell, 13; Lisa Martinez, 17; Tuesday Roberts, 15 — Kidnapped, raped and murdered, along with 42-year-old Margo Bond, in 1992 by parolee Roberto Arguelles, according to his own confession. Blundell was walking to school from her home in Magna, while the other girls were walking to Valley Fair Mall. Bond was at work early at a junior high school. Arguelles asked to be executed and a judge imposed the death penalty, but it was stayed. He died in prison in 2003 of natural causes.

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Alonzo Daniels, 4; Kim Petersen, 11; Danny Davis, 4; Troy Ward, 6; and Graeme Cunningham, 13 — Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed. Arthur Gary Bishop confessed in July 1983 to the crimes against these Salt Lake boys. Alonzo disappeared from the courtyard of his parents' apartment complex in 1979; Kim disappeared in 1980 after heading off to sell his roller skates to a man; Danny was not seen after being in a grocery store in 1981; Troy was taken from a park where he was to meet a friend in 1983; Graeme didn't come home for dinner in 1983. Bishop was executed by lethal injection in 1988.

Rachael Runyan, 3, Sunset — Grabbed by a man in a parked car at a Sunset park in August 1982. Her body was found 21 days later in a stream in Morgan County; cause of death was never determined, and her killer remains at large.

Annie Hoskinson, 3, Clinton — Came up missing in the early 1980s. An intense search, in which teenager John P. Miller participated, revealed her body stuffed in a closet. Miller was sent to prison in 1981 in connection with her death and remains there on murder and sex abuse charges.

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