Nine days had passed since the Ford sedan carrying James Hixon Jr., 22, of Salt Lake City and his fiancée Jean Margetts of Sunnyvale, Calif, had disappeared. Then, at dusk, a searching airplane pilot spotted the wreckage at the foot of a 300-ft. embankment in Parley's Canyon, just off heavily traveled U.S. 40, in the Wasatch Mountains, east of Salt Lake. Highway patrolmen clambered down to remove the bodies. Hixon lay dead, 20-ft. from the car. Jean Margetts was pinned beneath the car and a log. As Superintendent Lyle Hyatt lifted the log, she gave a low cry. Though...
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