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Newlyweds told friends about a ‘creepy guy’ at their Utah campsite. Five days later, they were found shot dead.

By Jessica Lipscomb
Today at 5:49 a.m. EDT

Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner went camping often. The newlyweds lived in a conversion van and routinely set up at campsites around Moab, Utah, where they both worked. When the weather was nice, the two women would pitch a tent and sleep outdoors.

But when Turner did not show up to her job at McDonald’s on Aug. 16, her co-workers grew concerned and called police. Two days later, the bodies of Schulte, 24, and Turner, 38, were found near their campsite in the La Sal Mountains. They had been shot dead.

At a news conference on Tuesday, Capt. Shan Hackwell of the Grand County Sheriff’s Office told reporters the investigation is ongoing. As of now, no suspect has been identified.

The sheriff’s office has said little more about the killings. One of the few public statements about the case — an Aug. 19 news release that said “there is no current danger to the public in the Grand County area” — has only raised more questions, leaving the mountain community near the Utah-Colorado border on edge.

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But across the state line in Colorado, the San Miguel County sheriff warned campers to be on high alert after authorities found a cache of more than 30 weapons at a man’s campsite near Telluride, about 2½ hours from Moab. The warning came four days after Utah officials said there was no threat to the public in regard to the unsolved killings.

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By Jessica Lipscomb
Jessica Lipscomb is the deputy editor of Morning Mix at The Washington Post. She previously worked for the Miami New Times and the Naples Daily News in Florida.