On December 30th, 2017, 17-year-old Breezy Otteson and 18-year-old Riley Powell went missing in Utah after meeting up with a friend. When their bodies were found brutally murdered and tossed down an abandoned Utah mine shaft, police uncovered details so shocking that the state sought the death penalty. This is the story of the Mineshaft Murders.

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CASE SOURCES

1. Brelynne's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188523501/brelynne-marie-otteson

2. Riley's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188523575/riley-lee-powell

3. The Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2019/07/31/death-penalty-sought-utah/

4. True Crime Daily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qeZMJqljZQ

5. The Daily Spectrum: https://www.newspapers.com/image/415003758/?terms=breezy%20otteson&match=1

6. The Daily Spectrum: https://www.newspapers.com/image/500625138/?terms=riley%20powell&match=1

7. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/21253403/2-killed-in-head-on-collision-identified

8. Nannette's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188523711/nannette-jena-hamby

9. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/46293004

10. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/46295730/teens-remembered-for-their-carefree-spirit-helpful-nature

11. East Idaho News: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2018/03/man-murdered-couple-dumped-their-bodies-in-a-mine-police-say/

12. UEN.org: https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/e/EUREKA.shtml

13. Breezy's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Breezyotteson2000

14. Riley's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powell.riley

15. Memorial Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/SearchingForBreezyandRiley

16. The Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/612861988/?terms=jerrod%20baum&match=1

17. The Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.newspapers.com/image/613775374/?terms=jerrod%20baum&match=1

18. Lakeside Review: https://www.newspapers.com/image/602777584/?terms=jerrod%20baum&match=1

19. Fox 13: https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/jerrod-baum-sentenced-to-four-life-sentences-for-murder-of-two-utah-teens

20. KSL: https://ksltv.com/472282/utah-county-attorney-announces-he-will-no-longer-seek-the-death-penalty/

21. Salt Lake Tribune: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2022/06/10/jerrod-baum-says-im-not/

22. KSL: https://www.ksl.com/article/50420393/narcissistic-brutal-act-of-cowardice-judge-throws-book-at-convicted-killer-jerrod-baum