On October 14, 1979, four-year-old White male Alonzo Daniels was playing in the courtyard of his Salt Lake City apartment complex when he went missing after his mother momentarily lost sight of him. A door-to-door inquiry led police to neighbor Roger Downs, who denied knowledge of the boy’s whereabouts. Unbeknownst to the family, Downs was Arthur Gary Bishop. Bishop lured Alonzo into his apartment with the promise of candy, struck him with a hammer when the child cried, drowned him in the bathtub and placed the body in a large cardboard box.

Bishop carried the boxed body past Alonzo’s mother in the courtyard, then drove about 20 miles southwest to a remote area near Cedar Fort and buried the child in an unmarked grave. The community search continued for days without success. Years later Bishop confessed to Alonzo’s murder and led authorities to the grave; he was convicted of five counts of aggravated murder and sentenced to death.