Rocio Banuelos-Bustamante, 29, was last seen in late March 2022 getting into a car with two men, Carlos Sepulveda-Montes and Zamir Sanchez-Hernandez. All three were reported missing in April 2022. By June 2022, confidential informants told the family Banuelos-Bustamante was dead and said she had been buried up the mountain.

On April 22, 2023, cadaver dogs in training found human remains near the Mercur Trailhead in Tooele County. A grave uncovered the next day contained three bodies later identified by DNA, fingerprints, and tattoos as Banuelos-Bustamante, Sepulveda-Montes, and Sanchez-Hernandez. Two bullets were recovered from the grave.

Investigators connected the killings to 26-year-old Cesar Matias Sevilla-Aleman of Orem, already incarcerated for an unrelated shooting. Cellphone location data placed his phone in the Rush Valley area on the morning of March 28, 2022, and a witness reported Sevilla-Aleman had said Sepulveda-Montes owed him money; authorities allege Sevilla-Aleman took the three up a mountain, shot them, and buried their bodies.

Does anyone have information about Banuelos-Bustamante or the events in Rush Valley around late March 2022?