Nearly 50 years after an Army veteran was murdered and his date was kidnapped and raped, officials have identified a suspect in the cold case.
On November 26, 1972, Army veteran Gregory Dahl Nickell took a date to a scenic overlook west of Vernal when he was brutally murdered.
After driving to a remote area near Brough Reservoir, the Uintah County Sheriff's Office said the men used gas from the car to set Nickell's vehicle and body on fire. Because the woman's head was covered with a blanket for the majority of the time, she was not able to provide law enforcement with a good description of the men who were responsible.
In September 2020, Daniel Arthur Bell, who died in 2019 in Yakima Washington, popped up as a match for the DNA that was collected.
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