- Davis County deputies excavated a former officer’s yard for missing Nancy Baird’s remains.
- Thomas Jackson, a former officer, is a person of interest in Baird’s case.
- Despite no remains found, detectives continue investigating the 51-year-old disappearance mystery.
LAYTON — A former police officer for the defunct city of East Layton has become a focal point in the unsolved disappearance of a gas station attendant 51 years ago.
Thomas Richard Jackson, 78, served as a police officer in East Layton from April of 1975 to July of 1976. During that time, on July 4, 1975, Nancy Perry Baird vanished from a Fina-brand gas station on the side of U.S. 89. In recent years, cold case investigators from the Davis County Sheriff’s Office have speculated Jackson might’ve been involved in Baird’s disappearance.
That suspicion even led detectives to excavate the backyard of the home where Jackson lived in 1975, searching for Baird’s remains. The dig, which has not been previously reported, occurred in May of 2025…