The discovery of the bodies of Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson in a 100-foot abandoned mine shaft in March 2018 capped a months-long investigation into the teenage couple’s disappearance after they went missing in late December. The victims would have been tied up and stabbed to death.
Reports indicate that Powell and Otteson’s friend, Morgan Lewis, told authorities that her enraged boyfriend kidnapped the couple while they were visiting her home, took them to a remote area and killed them before dumping their bodies in a mine shaft. The boyfriend, Jarrod Baum, was convicted of murder and other charges last year and sentenced to multiple consecutive life terms.
it’s oxygen buried in the yard was planned to narrate the murders of Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson in the episode titled hundred foot grave, this Saturday, July 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET. The official synopsis for the episode reads:
“A young couple goes on vacation but never makes it home as police search a dangerous area full of abandoned silver mines.”
The murders of Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson: four details about the disappearance and murders of the teenage couple
1) Powell and Otteson disappeared on their way home in December 2017
“Through the darkness comes the light”
The families of slain teens Breezy Otteson and Riley Powell will host a dinner in Eureka to thank the community for their support.
“It just shows us that there are still a lot of good people in this world.”
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Riley Powell, 18, and Breezy Otteson, 17, were last heard from on December 29, 2017, as they were returning home to Eureka, Utah, where they lived with the former’s grandfather. The teenage couple was reported missing on January 2, 2018. An exhaustive search and investigation took place for months, but to no avail. Powell’s Jeep was discovered near Cherry Creek Reservoir on January 9. The vehicle was hidden by some trees with two flat tires.
2) Their bodies were discovered in a 100 foot abandoned mine shaft
The bodies of Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson were discovered months later, on March 27, in a remote, abandoned mine in Utah County. Two were tied up and stabbed to death. The revelation came after one of her friends, Morgan Lewis, whose home they visited before she disappeared, made a chilling confession when she was arrested on drug and gun charges two days earlier, only confessing because she felt terribly guilty.
3) Morgan Lewis Claimed Her Boyfriend Kidnapped And Killed Riley Powell And Breezy Otteson
Lewis reportedly claimed in her confession that Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson made one last stop at her home in Spanish Fork before going home in late December 2017. Her boyfriend, Jarrod Baum, who came to the house while the three were hanging out, flew into a rage, telling her she “can’t have male friends.”
Baum then tied up the teens, taped their mouths shut, and drove them in a jeep to a remote location, where he beat Powell and then repeatedly stabbed him before pushing his body into a mine shaft. He allegedly forced Lewis and Otteson to testify to the crime before slitting the latter’s throat and dumping his body down a mine shaft.
A KSL TV report said Baum claimed he “made Riley suffer but felt bad for Brelynne (who was supposedly pregnant at the time) so he made her death quick and painless.”
4) Baum Was Found Guilty Of Murder And Kidnapping, Among Other Charges
Jarrod Baum was arrested on March 28, the day after the bodies of Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson were discovered, and charged with first-degree murder and other crimes, to which he pleaded not guilty. Morgan Lewis was also charged with two counts of second degree obstruction of justice.
Last April, Baum was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and desecration of a body. He was also convicted of one count of obstruction of justice and possession of a dangerous weapon by a person with limited supervision. Baum received four consecutive life sentences.
buried in the yard will further examine the case this Saturday, July 22 at 8:00 pm ET.
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