Coincidences eyed in death of worker, kidnapping of women

The morning before he went missing last week, he even returned home to give his wife of 42 years a kiss goodbye to avoid diverting from his daily routine.

[...] his family knew something was amiss when the 63-year-old Mormon grandfather didn't come from work on May 10 and his truck was later spotted in Wyoming and his cellphone near a station across town, said Richard Massey, a spokesman for the family.

[...] the FBI and investigators in Utah and Wyoming are trying to determine if a father and son accused of holding a woman and her four teenage daughters hostage the same day Ricks went missing had anything to do with his death.

The father eventually surrendered and led police to the remote camp near Pinedale, Wyoming.

The two are accused of using drugs and tying up a woman and her four teenage daughters in a basement on May 10 because they wrongly thought the mother had reported them to authorities.