NEWLYWEDS KILLED
Who were Kylen Schulte and Crystal Beck?
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Who were Kylen Schulte and Crystal Beck?
Schulte, 24, and Beck, 38 - who is also known as Crystal Turner - were avid campers in the Moab mountains.
Born September 5, 1996, in Vail, CO, Schulte was a cashier at the Moonflower Community Cooperative.
Schulte's grandmother said that she “was like sunshine brightening any room she walked into and loved to laugh... We will never get over this tragedy but will let the joy of her memories take over”.
Not much information is available on Beck, but the reports they were married in April 2021..
A GoFundMe page was set up for Schulte so that her family could raise money to have her body transported to Montana so she could be buried next to her brother who was also killed back in 2015 due to a gun accident at 15.
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What happened to them?
August 14, 2021, Schulte and Beck were reported missing while camping in the mountains.
On Wednesday, August 18, 2021, two women were then found shot to death off a scenic road that runs through a national forest.
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It was later reported that the bodies were identified as the missing women.
Just days before, the couple had told friends that they were moving to another site because there was a "weirdo camping near them that was freaking them out".
A spokesman for the sheriff's office revealed that investigators don't believe that their deaths were the result of a murder-suicide and are treating it as a homicide investigation.
Sheriff Steven White told KUTV: “We do think it was an outside party.
“There has not been any firearms recovered from that area at this time.”
No additional information has been released.
Did they have kids?
Since the discovery of their bodies, not much additional information has been released about the couple.
It has been assumed that the two did not have any children as they were avid campers and there has been no mention of children accompanying them.
How are their deaths linked to the disappearance of Gabby Petito?
came and her fiancé were said to have where murdered Kylen Schulte worked.
Moments before their deaths, they had text friends that a man had allegedly been “creeping them out”.
Given the closeness of time and location of the two incidents, investigators have since speculated whether they could be linked.
On September 16, 2021 the Grand County Sheriff's Office announced in a that they have been "in contact with Florida authorities" and were "actively looking into any connection" between the two cases.
It stated: "The Grand County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate any information received concerning the double homicide.
"The Sheriff's Office is not ruling anything out at this time and appreciate the concerns of the public and their willingness to contact this office with those concerns and information."
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Utah investigators had previously admitted they were "not ruling anything out" in their investigation into their murders.
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