BREAKING: 3 Women Dead, Urgent Manhunt Underway, "Lock Your Doors"

Summary

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Amy Robach & T.J. Holmes Present

Episode: BREAKING: 3 Women Dead, Urgent Manhunt Underway, "Lock Your Doors"
Date: March 5, 2026
Platform: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

In this urgent breaking news episode, Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes report on a shocking and ongoing manhunt in southern Utah following the discovery of three women found dead in two separate locations. The episode covers the unfolding developments of the case, the unprecedented precautions taken by local authorities, and the intense fear gripping the local communities. The hosts discuss the limited but alarming facts, local response, and potential implications as the investigation continues.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Breaking News Situation

• Timestamp: 02:26
  • T.J. Holmes sets the stage: schools closed, government offices shut, residents told to “lock your doors,” with a killer on the loose.
  • “We have seen manhunts before ... This one has a level of urgency and danger to it, the likes of which we're not used to seeing every day.” – T.J. Holmes (02:42)

2. Details of the Killings and Victims

• Timestamp: 03:06 – 04:51
  • Three women found dead: two on a hiking trail, one in her home.
  • Victims’ ages: one in her 30s, one in her 60s, and one in her 80s.
  • “All the victims were women. ... That's all the information we have about the victims.” – Amy Robach (04:29)
  • No details released on how the victims were killed or if/how they’re connected, increasing public anxiety.

3. Law Enforcement Response & Community Impact

• Timestamp: 04:51 – 06:36
  • The manhunt centers on Wayne County, Utah, but “this has spread... a big chunk of southern, central and even eastern ... parts of Utah under this alert.”
  • Police have not disclosed connections among victims, suspect description, or method.
  • Instead, a suspect vehicle is being sought, signaling some investigatory lead.

4. Official Alerts and Precautions

• Timestamp: 06:36 – 08:42
  • Wayne County Sheriff’s office is providing updates only via Facebook (not to press).
  • Residents instructed:
    • Lock doors, stay home, remain with others
    • Turn on all lights overnight
    • “Can you imagine police telling you: 'Lock your doors, turn your lights on, leave all your lights on overnight. Try to be with other people. Don’t be alone.'” – Amy Robach (05:07)
  • Do not call 911 with questions unless reporting suspicious activity.

5. Nature of the Area & Readiness

• Timestamp: 08:42 – 10:09
  • The affected area is “a charming small town,” gateway to Capitol Reef National Park; described as stunning, rural, peaceful, and “sleepy.”
  • Hosts express concern over the community’s preparedness for such a crisis.

6. Suspect Vehicle Information

• Timestamp: 10:09, 14:55
  • Police searching for a 2022 white Subaru Outback, license plate U560YF.
  • Still no direct suspect information; the car could be stolen or belong to someone connected to the victims.

7. Local Schools’ and Communities’ Response

• Timestamp: 14:55 – 16:31
  • All schools closed for the rest of the week; counselors prepared for students post-crisis.
  • “The fact that they've closed it for the rest of the week is alarming ... having counselors in place, we don't know who these women were, if they are local residents, if they're tourists passing through.” – Amy Robach (15:46)

8. Community Trauma and Personal Reactions

• Timestamp: 16:31 – 18:54
  • The scale of shutdown and fear is unprecedented in such a tight-knit, low-crime area.
  • “This is trauma right now. Just at home going to sleep at night with lights on. I am so sure that somebody was assigned to stay up all night at several houses in this area.” – T.J. Holmes (17:03)
  • “It feels like the purge ... to think that you’ve got to survive the night.” – Amy Robach (17:08)

9. Unprecedented Precautions and Mystery

• Timestamp: 18:54
  • Residents told to keep car keys secure (possibly to prevent car theft by suspect).
  • The hosts highlight the unusual thoroughness of the alerts: “We have covered so many manhunts. I have never seen the alerts like this and the precautions being taken.” – Amy Robach (17:41)
  • Authorities likely know more than has been made public.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the level of fear and mystery:
  “The alerts that are coming out of southern Utah are, for lack of a better word, scary. Scary as hell.”
  – Amy Robach (03:06)

• On implications for the rural community:
  "This seems to be a sleepy western small town. So to have something this frightening and urgent happening, is the area equipped to handle it?"
  – Amy Robach (08:55)

• On the rare severity of the authorities' instructions:
  "We're used to seeing 'do not approach, consider the suspect armed and dangerous.' ... I don't know if I've seen the type of alert they put out on this one."
  – T.J. Holmes (07:46)

• On community trauma:
  "It feels like the purge, you know ... to think and you got to survive the night."
  – Amy Robach (17:07)

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Key Timestamps for Major Segments

| Timestamp | Segment | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------| | 02:26 | Breaking news introduction, scale of shutdown | | 03:06 | Initial details on the victims and crime scenes | | 04:51 | Geographic spread and police communications | | 06:36 | Quoting original public alerts | | 08:42 | Description of area, preparedness, FBI involvement | | 10:09 | Suspect vehicle information and ongoing search | | 14:55 | School alerts, counselors, public impact | | 16:31 | Discussion of community trauma, overnight response | | 18:54 | Unprecedented public precautions, speculation |

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Summary

This episode delivers a gripping, minute-by-minute update on a developing emergency in rural Utah, where three women have been killed in mysterious circumstances. The episode is permeated by uncertainty, fear, and the rare severity of the authorities’ response—including full regional shutdowns, all-night alerts, and stark instructions to residents. Robach and Holmes blend details with the emotional pulse of the community, underscoring both the scale of the law enforcement mobilization and the bewilderment of residents, while emphasizing the story’s ongoing nature and the need to follow further updates.

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Hey there folks. It is Thursday, March 5, and schools are closed, local government offices all closed, and people are being told to quite literally lock your doors because there is a killer on the loose. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ on what is not just an overnight developing story, but robes are developing story. In the past few hours and even few minutes here, we have seen manhunts before. We have seen public being told to be on the lookout, somebody is armed and dangerous. Robes. This one has a level of urgency and danger to it, the likes of which we're not used to seeing every day.

[A]

Yes, the alerts that are coming out of southern Utah are, for lack of a better word, scary. Scary as hell. If I were in that area. This is a strange and mysterious, mysterious manhunt in that we're not getting a lot of details, but yet I have schools closed for the rest of the week, babe, not just today. They're saying kids won't be going to school for the remainder of the week. Government buildings shut down, even health clinics in the area are closed today. And this is all because, and we just found this out a short while ago, three women have been found dead in two different locations.

[B]

And the area we're talking about is Wayne County, Utah. This has spread, though, beyond Wayne county in that surrounding counties have now been putting their people on alert. So we're talking about robes, a big chunk of southern central and even eastern, I think they said parts of Utah under this alert, but it started robes with just initially them telling the public to lock your door, stay inside. And we didn't have all the details about exactly why they were being told this, but just in the time since we got up and started working, the new details came out and robes. I don't even know if they're telling us how they're connecting these deaths. But the deaths of three women has triggered all this.

[A]

Yes. So they have not told us, by the way, how they're connected. We know that two women were found dead on a popular hiking trail, and then another woman was found dead in her home. Again, all the victims were women. 1. This is all the information we have about the victims. One of the women was in her 30s, another was in her 60s, and the other was in her 80s.

[B]

I would be honest with you. I guess it's all the true crime we watch. When I hear three women dead, I hear about a hiking trail. I thought somebody might have been targeting young women. I thought in their 20s or their 30s or something like that. Out hiking, out jogging, out doing 30s, 60s, 80s, 80s.

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And here's the deal. If this, if these were targeted killings, like a family member going after other family members, they probably, they almost certainly would not be putting out alerts like this will tell you this is scary. Can you imagine police telling you Lock your doors, turn your lights on, leave your all your lights on overnight. Make try to be with other people. Don't be alone. These are the types of things residents are being told. And this is deeply concerning because officials haven't said how these women died or how they're all connected. We do have a vehicle that police are looking for, but other than that, it is an absolute mystery as to what happened, who they're looking for and what this person may have done or what they're afraid this person may do

[B]

and where this person might be. It's Subaru vehicle. They have a license plate that they're putting out. And so they know they have some level of detail. They know who thereafter to some degree. Is that car registered, that person? Who knows. But the area we're talking about, it's about three hours south of Salt Lake City. That's the best reference most people have to Utah. But Salt Lake City is about three hours south. It's getting close to the what New Mexico, the Arizona border. Yes, down there. Get my geography right. So that's the area we're talking about. But the surrounding areas now robes and the. Was it the Utah Department of Public Safety or the one that's communicating right now? I haven't seen a press conference. They haven't gone in front of cameras. No.

[A]

In in fact, it's quite interesting with these very alarming alerts. The Wayne County Sheriff's office put this out on Facebook that they will not be answering to press and that may mean that all hands on deck, they are just out there looking for this person. They said all updates will come from the Wayne County Sheriff's office Facebook page. But you know, you've got the courthouse closed today, the community health centers closed today. This is something that, you know, residents are flooding with questions. They even said please do not call the Sheriff's department or 911 with questions. We're gonna. Here's exactly what they told residents. This was the official alert as this remains an active investigation with the suspect at large. Law enforcement is urging residents in the tori and surrounding area to take extra precautions such as locking doors, remaining at home or with others and being vigilant about surroundings. Please report any suspicious activity to 91 1. Can you imagine?

[B]

I mean, they don't what's going on. They've shut down a fraction of the state almost because someone is on the loose and someone is killing people. We don't know like you said, rogue. We don't know how these women were killed, but it seems robes the alert they're putting out. They are connecting the deaths in some way, but we have no idea how, why two women hiking and another woman at home are connected and why they are dead. Rose, I. Again, a lot of manhunt stories. We've covered these for our decades in our career, and we. We're used to seeing do not approach, consider the suspect armed and dangerous. Bro, this is. I don't know if I've seen the type of alert they put out on this one, telling this huge swath of people to actually lock your door, stay inside, lights on, hunker down, the lights

[A]

on, for whatever reason, scared me the most. I don't know why, like, why would I need to keep all my lights on to keep somebody away. And I actually looked up Tory, Utah, just to get a sense of this area and what the situation is going to feel like and be like. But it's described as a charming small town and it's a gateway to the Capitol Reef National Park. It's. It's called a high desert base camp for hiking, fishing, scenic drives. So this is a place where people come to. To hike and to fish and to visit. And it's supposed to be stunning. 6,800ft. It sounds. I actually said, I looked at the pictures. I would like to visit this area. It's gorgeous. It's peaceful. It's quiet. That area of Utah doesn't have, you know, it's interesting. We think about this search for Savannah Guthrie's mother right now, Nancy Guthrie. It looks like similar terrain. This is more of a rural area. It's in these. This gorgeous high desert. So it's not like some bustling, busy place where there are cameras and, you know, police officers everywhere. This seems to be a sleepy western small town. So to have something this frightening and urgent happening, is the area equipped to handle it? The FBI did say at around 11pm last night that they are aware of the situation and are monitoring the development. So this sounds like a massive, major manhunt happening in an area that you would never expect something like this to happen.

[B]

But that's the thing where you said they're equipped, they're certainly capable. They don't see this type of thing all the time with this type of attention. But the other thing that rope the terrain. I mean, this seems like fairly remote area. We talk about hiking trails. Who are they looking for? Where are they are. What are they searching? But they are. What they did mention, as you said, a vehicle. We'll give you the details about that vehicle. And the other thing that Residents are being told to do.

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All right. We continue here on this Thursday, March 5, following what is an absolute still. This is right now, folks, as we record this. This is a minute by minute story being updated out of Wayne County, Utah, where there is an urgent manhunt going on for at least robes that they haven't said a suspect or a suspect description. They are only giving us a suspect vehicle. But they have found three women dead, one in her 30s, one in her 60s, one in her 80s. Two of them were found on a hiking trail. And police out there and several counties are telling their people to lock your doors, keep your lights on. And they have shut down schools, they have shut down city government, local government out there. And this is happening now. This vehicle robes, I mean, if they have a vehicle, they can connect it back to some body. But it could be a stolen vehicle.

[A]

Yeah, that is true. I didn't think about that. Obviously, it could be a stolen vehicle. And this is something that we are going to continue to follow because there could be hour by hour, minute by minute developments. But right now, yes, police are searching for a 2022 white Subaru Outback. They have the license plate number U560YF. And it seems like with that information, they'd be able to connect some sort of dots pretty quickly. We haven't gotten any specific, specific information about the suspect. But this is concerning. Look, this is the, the alert that folks got about schools. And I just thought this was interesting how they, how they worded it. Due to unfolding events in the county, out of an abundance of caution and concern for student and public safety, schools will be closed tomorrow and Friday. We will also have counselors in place to support students when we are back in session next week. We will communicate updates as things unfold. But they have counselors in place for next week. Kids aren't going to school for the rest of the week. It's, that's, you would think that it would just be today thinking, okay, they'll probably catch their guy or things will quiet down. The fact that they've closed it for the rest of the week is alarming. And then having counselors in place, we don't know who these women were, if they are local residents, if they're tourists passing through, given the area and how this is certainly a tourist destination or a place where people do come to visit to look at all the natural beauty. So we don't know anything about that. But I just thought that was interesting.

[B]

And Ro, this is, I mean this is a tiny community out here. Right. This isn't some bustling metropolis. So you could imagine a lot tight knit. Maybe these folks do know each other. But the counselor part already is interesting. Yep. But also, I mean, it is traumatic if you're in a small community, no matter what, if you know the person or not. Just to think that dead people are being found and we don't know how. This is trauma right now. Just at home going to sleep at night with lights on. I'm sure families were gathered together. I am so sure that somebody was assigned to stay up all night at several houses in this area.

[A]

Wouldn't you do that? Absolutely.

[B]

Nobody wants to sleep.

[A]

It feels like the purge, you know when they say, you know, just for 24 hours, but to think and you

[B]

got to survive the night.

[A]

Right? Survive the night. These alerts came out late last night. I'm imagining some folks probably were in bed already. We go to bed around 8pm we would have completely missed this. So to think you're waking up hearing this news thinking, oh my God, I left my doors. And like this is a community where you would leave your doors unlocked 100%.

[B]

A lot of people are going to wake up robes without they went to bed last night not knowing why.

[A]

Correct.

[B]

They're going to get up today going, what the actual hell. Y' all didn't tell us this.

[A]

Yes, government buildings closed, schools closed. I'm sure a lot of offices and certainly businesses will be closed as well. Because when you're told to shelter in place, to remain with others, to remain home if you can, they said, and literally the shelter in place order was put in. I just, I'm with you. We have covered so many manhunts. I have never seen the alerts like this and the precautions being taken. Schools being closed for multiple days, counselors at the ready. Look, maybe it's an area that isn't used to this sort of thing, but this seems extraordinary given the fact that there's just a guy on the loose who may or may not have done something untoward to these women. They obviously know more than they're telling us, which is fairly typical. But my goodness, this is something that has piqued a lot of folks interest and certainly deeply concerning for the people who are affected. Because to hear that sheriff's departments in central, southern and eastern Utah are all issuing this sort of an alert to all of their residents. Now, granted it's not a highly populated area, but still, that is a large area to cover.

[B]

And then the last detail I did want to mention that jumped out is they're telling people to take make sure, you know, your car keys are one town is reminding people of that. You mentioned the lights. We don't usually hear that when we're talking about a manhunt. And some of these smaller details of what folks should do, sure, lock your doors, go home kind of a thing, but man, some of these details. And so we were. That made me think of it because we were talking about the vehicle and it could be stolen. So maybe they're trying to give maybe they know this person is maybe trying to hop from car to car and looking for a way to get around. But this is a mystery. We do want to let you know top right corner of your Apple podcast app where you see our show page. There's a little button that says follow a lot of updates these days on a lot of stories. But you click that follow button, you can subscribe and make sure all of our updates come to you in what has been an extremely busy news cycle. But we always appreciate you spending time with us. I'm TJ Holmes. On behalf of my dear Amy Roach, we will talk to you all soon.

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