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Show Utah Crime Solvers is a proven vehicle for solving criminal cases and reducing the incidence of crime due to the high visibility and awareness aware-ness generated by the program. Using Us-ing donated services from local electronic media, Crime Solvers centers around a weekly re-enactment re-enactment of unsolved felony cases committed within Utah statewide ; communities. Viewers with information about any criminal activity of which they have knowledge are encouraged to call in anonymously on a 24-hour i manned hotline. Public response is also fostered by offering a cash re- ward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and binding over of any suspects. All reward payments are in cash and paid anonymously. Since the program's inception in 1985, 700 felony cases have been cleared, over $750,000 in stolen property and narcotics have been recovered and $12,750 in reward monies have been paid. Utah Crime Solvers shares a unique uni-que position with the state of Delaware Dela-ware in being theonly statewide programs in the country as opposed to serving a single metropolitan area. r |