It was a cold winter Saturday in Nephi, Utah during 1968. During that era, folks in this rural town didn't have to lock their doors as all respected each other and looked out for each other. We left the truck and tractor keys in place as if locals borrowed them-it must have been for a good reason. Before you knew it the borrowed driving machine was returned and usually with a full tank of gas. But way back then, it was quite unusual, even for a local-to borrow a truck and not return it the next day so we could go to church. Especially if the truck belonged to Alma Jones, who was Sunday School big shot and a hard worker who needed his truck to finish that plaster job at the Levan Church. But it didn't show up after the night it was taken from the 1885 Jones Homestead. When Chief of Police Jack Brough came to investigate, he had a hunch it may have been an "inside job" and talked to Alma's family and friends. Nobody confessed. They pointed to the North, as it had to be somebody from up North, where the real gangsters hung out. Chief Brough contacted Juab Sheriff Ray Jackson, and he called Jack Webb, who knew all criminal things during the 1960's. The heat was on and the family was sweating bullets. Low and Behold, the tan Chevy truck with the side panels were found stuck in the mud west of town. With a heave ho and two plug horses borrowed from Bill Ockey, the truck was pulled out and returned to the owner, with no damage and no visible foot prints or fingerprints. The case was semi-closed......until last week, when evidence appeared. A photo was found in the old records of Nephi, and the attached photo copy is shown. Most photos are just photos, but in this case, the photo is evidence. On the day in question, the Chevy Tan truck can be seen in downtown Nephi, heading Northbound, in front of the stationwagon, by the Post Office. The case is re-opened and while the photo is being sent to Quantico, Virginia for photo analysis, local police were able to determine that the four Jones Boys were living or serving in different countries at the time of the crime, but the youngest and boldest of the kiddos was 15 years old, and we have a hunch that she and her friends may have been involved with this Juab County Shenanigan. We will keep readers updated if we obtain more of this Absolutely Phony Non-Breaking and Fake News!
