Mr. Ballin

They'd clearly gone straight through this woman from the shots in her back.

And so Hayward quickly told a tech to go ahead and photograph and bag the bullets for testing and also to get some of the dirt that the bullets had been lodged in in case there was some other evidence mixed in.

So investigators in the 1970s did not rely on DNA yet.

but they could test for things like clothing fibers or hairs and potentially connect that material to suspects.

And so after giving his team their marching orders, Hayward took a deep breath and then headed back down the trail.

He needed to go find this woman's name.

The next day, Wednesday, March 13th, Hayward hustled down a hallway towards a meeting room at the Salt Lake City Sheriff's Office.

He was bleary-eyed and basically running on adrenaline because he'd been working this case non-stop since the day before.

And he'd just come from a meeting with the ballistics expert who told him the gun that killed this woman was likely a .357 caliber.

Now, this was obviously great for the investigation.

However, a .357 was not particularly uncommon, so it didn't really narrow things down a whole bunch.

However, Hayward had uncovered something that was major for the investigation, and that was the victim's identity.

It was 22-year-old Barbara Rockey.

So Hayward's team had put a broadcast out over the news the night before about the discovery of this body.

And after they had put that out, they had gotten a call from the BYU police about a student of theirs who had gone missing a day earlier.

And just a few hours ago, some of this missing student's classmates had come up to Salt Lake City to identify the body, and they had confirmed it was Barbara.

Now, Hayward had spoken to some of those kids already, and he had some other officers contacting Barbara's family.

But right now, Hayward was on his way to get a formal statement from a young man named Jerry Hicker.

Jerry was one of the people who identified the body, and he was the first person to report Barbara missing.

So Hayward was hoping he would have information that could point them towards Barbara's killer.