It's no surprise to anyone that I'm interested in cases/stories where people disappear and are not found. But what about ones who are found, reported, then never recovered?

It happened in 1987, when a man called police in Roy, Utah and said he'd found a body in the mountains east of Ogden. In a subsequent call to the Weber County Sheriff's Office, the anonymous caller said the body was near Causey Reservoir.

The man hung up before the dispatcher could get an investigator on the line to take directions. He's never called back, never been identified. In spite of numerous searches around Causey, the body's never been found.

The timing and location of this report are interesting because it came just over a year from the disappearances of two Ogden-area women: Joyce Yost and Sheree Warren. Neither has ever been found, leading to speculation the anonymous caller could have stumbled across one of them.

You can drive your car right to Causey (over the earthen dam itself) and it's a popular place to paddle board and cliff jump. But the canyons behind the reservoir are not widely visited.

Searches there are difficult. The canyons are cliffy and tough to access. So investigators spent years trying to identify the caller based on his voice. They had a psycholinguistics expert analyze the call recording. All they got were dead-ends.

The anonymous call case is still open, but like many cold cases, it's not getting much attention these days. And because it's not definitively tied to an individual, you don't see it show up in lists of active missing person cold cases.

So, there's the mystery. Investigators believe a man legitimately found a body, reported it, then walked away forever. The remains are presumably still in the mountains, waiting for someone else to find them. And whoever does might just close a decades-old murder case.

My complete story on the anonymous call: https://www.ksl.com/article/50155415/cold-a-caller-claimed-he-found-a-body-near-a-reservoir-but-police-could-never-locate-it-could-it-have-been-joyce-yost