TORREY, Utah (KUTV) — The suspect in the Wayne County triple homicide was charged with aggravated murder. He said he didn’t like to do it, but that it “had to be done.”
Ivan Miller, 22, of Blakesburg, Iowa, was charged with the three first-degree felony counts on Thursday afternoon.
Wayne County dispatch received a call on Wednesday that two women were found dead in a dried-up creek bed in the area of Cocks Comb Trailhead, court documents state.
A ranger with the Bureau of Land Management responded to the scene just before 4:30 p.m. and found the women’s husbands flagging him down from the roadway. There, the ranger confirmed that the women were, in fact, dead.
The ranger said he found three spent .45 shell casings and one spent 20-gauge shotgunshell near the bodies, which appeared to have been dragged to where they were lying, court documents state.
The ranger said there were drops of blood going from the road to where the bodies were located. He also said he observed the women’s tracks going uphill, above a Buick hidden under a tree, as well as a set of “unidentified” tracks.
A live 20-gauge shotgun was located under the Buick.
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