On November 9, 1980, 11-year-old Claude Kimley Kim Peterson left his Salt Lake City home carrying roller skates he planned to sell and told his parents he would be right back. He never returned. Kim had met a man at a local roller-skating rink the day before who said he wanted to buy the skates for $35 and they arranged to meet the next day.

Witnesses later described the man seen speaking with a boy matching Kim’s description as between 25 and 35 years old, about 200 pounds, with a full face, glasses, dark bushy eyebrows, wearing blue jeans and an army-style jacket; one witness thought the man left in a silver Chevy Camaro with out-of-state plates. Police initially questioned a 29-year-old neighbor but did not consider him a suspect at the time. It was later discovered the man from the rink, identified as Arthur Gary Bishop (also known as Roger Downs), had lured Kim, bludgeoned him to death, and buried his body in the desert near Cedar Fort.

Are there any readers who remember the skating rink or the silver Camaro in November 1980 and can share what they saw?