The Utah Department of Public Safety is giving a heads up to residents that a test of the AMBER Alert system will take place on Thursday at 4 p.m. For one Utah family, the alerts bring up both painful and comforting memories.
Elaine Runyan gave her perspective on the AMBER Alert system, more than 40 years after her daughter, Rachael, was kidnapped and killed.
Approaching 42 years since Utah toddler was kidnapped & killed
Just 3 years old at the time of the kidnapping in 1982, Rachel was taken in broad daylight close to her family’s Sunset home. The incident sparked statewide “RACHAEL Alerts” before the nationwide AMBER Alert system was later implemented.
It wasn’t until three weeks after Rachel was kidnapped that her body would be found on the outskirts of Morgan County…