On October 11, 1964, 15-year-old Reed Taylor Jeppson left his Salt Lake City home to walk and feed his two German shorthaired pointers and never returned. He was last seen near the old St. Mary of the Wasatch building on the city’s east bench, around 1:00 p.m., wearing blue Levi’s, a white cotton knit shirt, a reversible parka blue on one side and black on the other, and gym shoes.

Reed was an East High School sophomore, Eagle Scout, member of the football team, and described as responsible; he left behind money and personal items, and his family say he had no reason to run away. The Salt Lake City Police Department searched nearby foothills and neighborhoods with no result; the file was closed in 1966, reopened in 2010, and a 2012 excavation of a gully near the family home found nothing connected to Reed. Leads over the years have included a possible summer acquaintance Reed may have visited and a neighbor whose adjoining property was investigated after animal bones were found, but nothing has been conclusively linked to him.

Does anyone have information about Reed, his dogs, or the east bench area around October 11, 1964?