James Douglas Odom, a 39-year-old Caucasian man, was found dead on June 27, 1981, in a remote field near a dirt road at about 10020 W. 20th South in Magna, Utah. Workers from the nearby Kennecott Copper located his body that afternoon after a two-day search that began when he was last seen on June 25, 1981, at an Albertson’s grocery store at 400 E. 200 S. in Salt Lake City.

Investigators determined his death was not natural and treated it as a homicide. No suspects were identified during the initial investigation, and the case later went cold. The Unified Police Department lists the homicide as open.

Who knew James Odom or was in the Magna or Salt Lake City area in late June 1981 and might have information that could help reopen this investigation?