On the evening of July 19, 1976, 24-year-old Max David Jensen was working as a gas station attendant at a Sinclair service station in Orem, Utah. Jensen, a Brigham Young University student who supported a wife and young daughter, was confronted by Gary Gilmore during an apparent robbery. Although Jensen complied with Gilmore’s demands, Gilmore forced him to lie down and shot him in the head; a customer later found Jensen’s body in the restroom after discovering the station unattended.

Gilmore committed a second robbery-murder the following night in Provo and was identified after injuring his hand while handling the murder weapon, leaving a bloody trail, and after a witness reported his license plate. Gilmore’s cousin Brenda turned him in after he sought help for the wound. He was arrested by the Utah State Police and charged with the murders of Jensen and Bennie Bushnell; the Jensen charge was never brought to trial, reportedly because there were no eyewitnesses.

Are there readers who remember Jensen or who have information about that night in Orem?