A friend looking for Crystal Turner and Kaylan Schulte discovered their bodies on August 18
The Grand County Sheriff’s Office (GCSO) has identified a suspect in the murder of a couple found dead near a campsite in Moab, Utah, around the time Gabby Petito went missing.
“The Grand County Sheriff’s Office has identified Adam Pinkusevic. As a suspect in the double murder of Kaylan Schulte and Crystal Beck Turner,” said a Facebook press release Wednesday.
“Adam Pinkusevic is a former team member of McDonald’s. Where Crystal work, base in Moab, Utah,” the statement said, noting that Pinkusevic was identify as one of the many interest groups identify by GCSO in efforts to locate him. and interviewed him. Through extensive analysis and collection of evidence, GSCO learned. That the suspect was in La Salsa and Moab at the time of the murder. Left Utah shortly after the murder, and then committed suicide,” the statement said.
“GSCO conducted numerous interviews and recently received information that before his suicide. Adam Pinkusevic disclosed to others that he had killed two women in Utah and provided specific details. That only investigators know,” police said that the investigation was ongoing. And the case is still in progress.
The bodies of 38-year-old Turner also 24-year-old Schulte were find on August 18 at a campsite near the La Salle Mountains near Moab. The pair were last hear of on August 14 and were report missing shortly after.
The two women were shot several times, authorities said.
According to Bridget Calvert, Schulte’s aunts Turner also Schulte embraced a nomadic lifestyle.
Calvert told news that the couple stayed in their van and moved from camp to camp but remained mainly in the Moab area.