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Show more fog bus stum tin's. Christmas presents, pre-sents, troen shrimp and call on a downtown printer who was doing work for her at an unsatisfactory pace. She started out with a S50 bill which was not broken until shortly before her aeatn oy tne clerk at the mall. She was seen at the printers sometime after noon and was not seen again until 7:45 p.m. She did not. purchase the tires or shrimp. subsequent "pip" and saw a Hash." L'nftirturmtelv. information becomes be-comes somewhat vague at this point. One officer has indicated that the informant claims to have driven the victim's car to an alternate location then later back to its original stall. However, another officer has failed to confirm this purported activity. Both Chief Wilkinson and Sargeant Forbes, however, concur con-cur that the source has described in detail the missing keys, going so far as to show authorities where they could be located: at the bottom of a drainage pond in AudicIiiih to Wilkinson, the informant and the person he has iinplu aled are both members ol an active "gang" of Salt Lake car prowlers with an unusual M.O.. or method of operation. They apparently break into cars aided by a set ol special tools, relock the doors once inside and rifle the contents. If anyone approaches, l he robbers recluse to the floor. If a suspicious person tries the doors, they are found locked, leading anyone to believe that the car and contents are secure. The informant was apparently working inside a car parked at the mall that evening in view of an adjacent automobile being ransacked ran-sacked by a compatriot. The information claims to have seen a person pulled forceably into the rear seat of the nearby car. He further maintains he heard a South Salt Lake. The pond is presently covered with six inches of ice, which is hampering recovery efforts. After the arrest of the informant for burglary and the suspect for parole violation, a search of residences turned up a large arsenal. According to Forbes, the various guns have been sent for ballistics tests in hopes one will match up with the fatal 22-calibcr bullet found in the upholstery of the victim's car. Sargeant Forbes describes the gang members as "weird," taking the informants story with some skepticism and saying, "sometimes I think they would lie if the truth would help them." Meanw hile, the recent development, develop-ment, although promising, do not explain the whereabouts of Bonnie Ryan for eight unaccounted unaccoun-ted for hours the day she died. Nor does it explain why her intended purchases were never made, and why she informed no one of her whereabouts when she was due home five hours before she was last seen alive at a mall shop at 8 p.m. This also seems like an early hour for car prowling and no one else reported their automobiles robbed while parked at the mall that night. Police responding to anonymous anony-mous call from a nearby drug store found Bonnie Ryan's body in the back seat of her car parked at the mall early the morning of Dec. 8. Officers could find no signs of a struggle or robbery and was not molested with exception to the bullet wound to the head. The coroner maintains she died at approximately 8 p.m. the precee-ding precee-ding evening shortly after a clerk identified her at a mall shop. She left Park City at 11 a.m. that morning telling her husband Doug Ryan that she intended to |