- Loved ones of solved cold cases speak at conference Saturday.
- The Hope Conference was hosted by the Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
- Hope Conference supports families of missing persons with updates and shared stories.
SALT LAKE CITY — For 20 years, Axel Anderson held on to the belief that his father might suddenly show up.
“Every major milestone, there was always a little piece of me wondering, ‘Could this be it? Could this be the day he comes back?'” he said.
But in 2024, 20 years after 46-year-old Steven Willard Anderson went missing while driving to his cabin near Flaming Gorge, his Toyota Sequoia was found approximately 70 feet underwater at Starvation Reservoir. The vehicle was pulled out and Anderson’s remains were found inside…