Each time Terryl Warner arrived at a crime scene in northern Utah’s Cache County — hundreds of times over the past decade — she would scan the crowd of police officers and detectives for Lt. Brian Locke.
Locke stood roughly 6 feet 6 inches and towered over other responders. Warner, at 5 feet 2 inches, often had to stand on her tiptoes as she searched, and nicknamed him “the gentle giant.”
She responded to accidents and homicides as a victim advocate; he was often there as both a regional medical examiner for the state and as the liaison for the sheriff’s department.