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é é Salt Lake City, Utah 79- November 14, 1974 DEBRA KENT MISSING PERSON On the evening of November 8, 1974, at approxi- mately 16:10 P.M., Debra Kent, a 17-year-old high school girl, was attending a play at the Viewmont High School auditorium at Bountiful, Utah, with her parents. Her father, who is an official of a local oil company, asked Debra to take the family car, which was parked in the school parking lot, and to pick up her younger brother who was expecting the family. Debra took the keys to the car and left the auditorium, and has not been seen sinee that time. As has been previously reported, Melissa Smith, daughter of the Chief of Police of Midvale, Utah, disappeared on a Friday avening sometime after 9:00 P.M. after she had visited a girl friend. On the evening of October 26, 1974, the body of Melissa Smith was found in a heavily wooded area east of Sait Lake City, Utah, at a point known as Summit Park. Medical examination disclosed her death to have been caused by a massive brain hemorrhage. She had been sexually assaulted, a stocking had been tied around her throat, and she had been badly beaten about the head. Similarities in the two incidents have caused in- tensive investigation by law enforcement officers in the entire Salt Lake City area. On the evening of Friday, November 8, 1974, a young girl, approximately 17 years of age, was approached by a white male in his late 20's who displayed a badge and told her he was an officer and asked her to accompany him to where her car was parked as there was some trouble in the parking lot. This occurred at the Fashion Place Mall, an area frequented by - Bureau. “ HLL:1bp (7) JH Aa This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusYons of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. -_ of DG -(27 —