Marty Carruth Justice, 51, was last seen in Vernal, Utah, on July 8, 2022, after saying goodbye to his ailing father and leaving for work at the Deep Creek ranches in Uintah County. At the time he was on probation and wearing an ankle monitor; law enforcement traced the monitor’s signal into remote Deep Creek and then watched it abruptly stop transmitting. Authorities searched the rugged area with canines, helicopters and airplanes but found no trace of Marty.

His vehicle was located the next day with none of his personal items inside. The sheriff’s office says Marty sent a text to his girlfriend the day he disappeared stating he planned to cut off the ankle monitor and that he would never be found by law enforcement, a message that complicates the picture given his family’s insistence that he would not willingly abandon his children and granddaughters. His father died in November 2022 without learning what happened; the Uintah County Sheriff’s Office describes the investigation as active, with extensive searches and phone‑record analysis producing no conclusive evidence.

Does anyone who spent time in the Deep Creek area in July 2022 remember seeing Marty, his van, or anything unusual along the roads where the monitor’s signal stopped?