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On August 20, 1980, near Liberty Park in Salt Lake City, 18-year-old David Lemar Martin III was shot and killed. He and 20-year-old Theodore Tracy Ted Fields were both killed in the same incident. The attacker was Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted minorities and later confessed to the killings.

Franklin was tried on federal civil rights charges and state first-degree murder charges in connection with the deaths of Martin and Fields and was convicted. He received a life sentence. The case is notable for its racial motivation and for being part of a series of violent attacks attributed to the same perpetrator.

Did anyone in the Salt Lake City area at that time have information about Martin, Fields, or the events near Liberty Park?