James William Skeel was 52 when he was last seen in the early morning hours of September 21, 1982, leaving the Staircase Lounge at 3000 S. Highland Drive in Salt Lake City. Neighbors later reported loud, unsettling noises coming from his apartment in the early hours of that same day, suggesting trouble shortly after he returned home.

His body was discovered inside his apartment at 4137 South 570 East on September 23, 1982. The scene indicated a violent death, but the official cause of death has not been publicly disclosed. The Unified Police Department investigated, but the homicide remains unsolved and no arrests or suspects have been named.

If anyone has information about Skeel’s movements on the night of September 21, 1982, or recalls hearing those disturbances at the apartment block, please come forward.