Wallace Mayo Thorton was 25 when he was last seen on or about January 23, 1975, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Reports say he had been involved in a lifestyle that made him fear for his safety in the weeks before he vanished.

On the afternoon of January 27, county highway workers found his body. He had been shot and beaten, and investigators believed the body had been dumped at that location about two weeks earlier. Despite the obvious violence, the killing remains unsolved and no arrests or publicly named suspects have been reported.

If anyone knew Wallace’s movements, associates, or where he spent time in January 1975, please share information that could help identify who killed him.