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On November 1, 2014, 23-year-old Braden Parker Emerson vanished in Salt Lake City, Utah, along with companions Levi Joseph Collins, 34, and Danny Kiko Gallegos, 35. The three men planned to ride all-terrain vehicles in Bountiful and never returned; their families reported them missing the next day. Two days later Gallegos’ Chevrolet Tahoe was found abandoned near the Jordan River. Investigators recovered Collins’ dog in the vehicle and bloodstains that DNA testing later linked to both Emerson and Collins.

For years the disappearances remained unresolved and the men were presumed dead. Investigators later developed evidence that the three were last seen meeting with a man named Richard Christopher and that a dispute over a large sum of money may have preceded the violence. Court testimony described that Gallegos was shot first, and that Emerson and Collins were later shot and their bodies taken to a pet crematorium.

Did anyone who knew Braden, Levi, or Danny have contacts or memories of that planned ATV trip or the meeting they attended?