Jerrod William Baum is the 41-year-old accused of killing Riley Powell and Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson. Baum’s girlfriend, Morgan Lewis Henderson told detectives about the murders after she was stopped for speeding.
Investigators Found The Bodies In An Abandoned Mine
Jerrod’s girlfriend led investigators to an abandoned mine where he dumped the dead bodies of the teens. Baum used a knife to kidnap and kill Brelynne and her boyfriend, Riley. After murdering the innocent teenagers, Jerrod threw their bodies down a mine shaft near Eureka.
Jerrod Made Riley Suffer
Baum was booked into the Utah County jail for aggravated murder, abuse or desecration of a human body and kidnapping. According to Henderson, Jerrod made Riley suffer whereas Breezy’s murder was painless.
Jerrod Said He Had Never Killed An Innocent Before
Henderson explains that to make his girlfriend feel guilty, he told her that he felt bad because he never had to kill an innocent before. Investigators knew that Baum and Riley knew each other so after Riley went missing, Baum and Henderson were interview.
Very convincing arguments, then we see a person like Jerrod William Baum and what he did to those two teenagers and now I am not so sure the death penalty should be off the table.
— kwaynecushing (@KWayneCushing) March 30, 2018
Jerrod Killed The Teens Because He Didn’t Want His Girlfriend To Have Male Friends
Detectives found a Facebook conversation between Riley and Henderson which led them to conduct further investigations into Baum and Henderson’s potential involvement. Henderson eventually revealed that Baum killed the teens because he didn’t want her to have any male friends.
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