Anthony Adams, a gay, black Socialist activist was found brutally stabbed to death in his Salt lake City Avenues apartment on Nov. 6, 1978. Forty years later his murder is still one of Utah’s most perplexing cold cases.
Not only has it remained unsolved but the investigation itself has been subject to another mystery — what happened to evidence that allegedly went missing from his file? And his case is not the only murder in the late 1970s that remains an active investigation and has evidence problems.
Last January, Salt Lake City Police went to the media asking the public for help locating evidence lost in as many as 20 cold cases — including the knife used to kill Adams.