On the evening of August 27, 1981, 45-year-old pharmacist and co-owner Buddy Charles Conti was shot and killed during an armed robbery at Kearns Drug Store, 4188 W. 5415 South in Kearns, Utah. A masked gunman entered about 9 p.m., fired a warning shot, demanded cash and pharmaceuticals, and then forced Conti and an employee, Signa Atwood, out of the store at gunpoint. As Atwood ran, Conti stopped and confronted the assailant and was fatally shot.

Investigators early on identified two suspects: Richard David Gill, believed to be the shooter, and Clyde Leslie Dudley, who admitted he had driven surveillance and intended to help rob the store. Dudley died by suicide in December 1983. Gill was later arrested in Missouri for an unrelated armed robbery but was not questioned or charged in Conti’s killing. Detectives re-opened the file in 2015 and concluded there would have been probable cause to charge both men; Gill had died of cancer on June 1, 2013, and with both suspects deceased the case was closed.

Does anyone remember the Kearns area in 1981 or have information about the robbery or people involved?