Kay Mortensen (July 6, 1939 - November 16, 2009) was a retired professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University who was murdered. He was born to Sherman and Roxie Mortensen in Ephraim, Utah on July 6, 1939. Kay graduated from Snow College, Utah State University, and finally from the University of Utah where he received a Ph.D. in Metallurgy. Kay was a professor of mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University for 37 years where he taught courses in manufacturing design, engineering technology, and mechanical engineering until his retirement. Three weeks before his murder he was released from serving as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Provo, Utah Mission at Cove Fort, Utah (now part of the St. George, Utah Mission).
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On November 16, 2009 at about 7 p.m. Kay's daughter-in-law Pam Mortensen called 911 to report that she and her husband Roger, Kay's son, had arrived at Kay's home and had been promptly tied up by two young men described as clean-cut white males. After the men left, Roger and Pam freed themselves, Pam called 911, and Roger went upstairs to find that Kay had been murdered. Kent Carroll, a neighbor of Mortensen's family said they were planning to gather at the house Monday evening to play board games. Kay Mortensen's wife, Darla, was returning from Salt Lake where she had gone to be with her daughter who was having a baby.
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Kay Mortensen's son, Roger Kay Mortensen, 48, and daughter-in-law Pamela Mortensen, 34, were eventually charged with the murder. They were arrested on August 4, 2010 and booked into the Utah County Jail. The police claimed that Roger's and Pam's stories were inconsistent. A search of Roger's home revealed he had possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a firearm by a restricted person. They also found hidden an AK-47 and a 12-gauge shotgun. A .22 caliber revolver was also found in a safe in the garage. A Grand Jury was impaneled, which found that Roger and Pam should stand trial for Kay's murder.
On December 7, 2010, after serving four months in jail, Utah County exonerated Roger and Pamela Mortensen of the murder of Roger's father. Prosecutors moved to dismiss charges against the couple. That same day, they arrested two 23-year-old Vernal, Utah men, Benjamin David Rettig and Martin Cameron Bond, who is the son of a close friend of Kay Mortensen, after Martin Bond's ex-wife called police, turning him in. They were both charged by Utah County with aggravated murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated kidnapping. An anonymous informant advised police of the whereabouts of the suspects. When confronted, Bond showed detectives where he had allegedly buried weapons to conceal them. They found 14 shotguns, rifles and handguns buried at a location in Vernal and other weapons in a septic tank at a park in the area. The firearms had the serial numbers scratched off. Rettig was in possession of Roger Mortensen's driver's license. Rettig claimed that he and Bond had tied up Pamela and Roger Mortensen after the older Mortensen's throat had already been cut.
After nearly five hours of deliberation, a jury found Martin Cameron Bond guilty of the 2009 slaying. A jury of five men and three women found the 25-year-old guilty of aggravated murder, three counts of aggravated kidnapping, and one count each of aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery.
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