Officials Seek Public’s Help in Solving 54-Year-Old Cold Case

SALT LAKE CITY — It was the start of an ordinary workday when tragedy struck.

On Sept. 2, 1971, 33-year-old Carolyn Kingston had just begun her shift as a clerk at Natter’s Market. Around the same time, 23-year-old Michael Bown arrived to deliver bread.

Authorities believe Bown may have walked in on a robbery in progress. He was shot twice and died at the scene. The gunman then forced Kingston into a storage room, where he shot her in front of her 4-year-old son. Kingston survived the attack but passed away two years later from complications related to her injuries…

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