Utah man convicted of killing teen couple, dumping bodies in mine shaft

In this episode of Crime Watch Daily Updates: The case of missing Utah teenagers Riley Powell and Breezy Otteson, who disappeared on the night before New Year's Eve in 2017.

Powell and Otteson were last seen as they made their way to Juab County in rural Utah. Powell was reportedly communicating with Jerrod Baum’s then-girlfriend, Morgan Lewis, and had plans to meet at Lewis' home.

Then, in March 2018, tragedy struck when investigators found Powell and Otteson’s bodies inside Tintic Standing Mine Number Two. Baum had tied up Powell and Otteson in a Jeep, brutally stabbed them to death, and then threw their bodies in the mine.

Since covering the story in 2019, Baum was found guilty Friday, April 15, 2022, of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, and abuse of desecration of a human body. He was also convicted of obstruction of justice and possessing a dangerous weapon by a restricted person. In June of this year, Baum was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Let's look back at this tragic story of these teenagers and the start of it all.

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