Ruthless Acts: The Utah Murders

World War II was over when a soldier gazed down at Camp Salina from atop a machine-gun tower. Moments later, he fired into the tents of 250 German POWs. Nine prisoners were murdered, twenty were wounded. In 1925, Robert Marshall, a black man, was snatched from the Carbon County jail. A mob hanged him—more than once—from a tree limb. Some 800 men, women and children viewed the dangling corpse, and a ghoulish photographer sold snapshots door-to-door for a quarter apiece. A Bible-thumping vulgarian roamed an Ogden neighborhood in 1943, armed with a loaded shotgun. He unloaded it into the bodies of seven random victims including a prominent judge. Five died, two were badly wounded.