Three-year-old Rachael Runyan was abducted from a school playground in Sunset, Utah on August 26, 1982. She, a five-year-old brother and a toddler brother had been playing about fifteen feet from their home while their mother Elaine watched from the kitchen window. A man who promised ice cream and bubble gum lured Rachael away; her brother saw the man force her into his car and drive off. That was the last sighting of her alive.

A massive search followed. The Sunset Police set up roadblocks and a ten-investigator task force worked the case. The brother gave a description of a Black man, about 30 to 35 years old, with a handlebar mustache, driving an older dark blue car with wood paneling. No arrests were made.

Rachael’s body was found in a remote Morgan County creek bed on September 19, 1982. She was nude with her hands bound behind her back; decomposition from time in the water made exact cause of death hard to determine, though the coroner concluded asphyxiation or smothering was likely. Decades later the case remained unsolved; investigators have revisited leads, including information from a woman who named her deceased uncle, a convicted sex offender who lived in the area at the time, as a possible person of interest.

Did anyone in the community have contact with a man matching that description or the older dark blue car with wood paneling around August 1982?