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Family confirms UTA worker found dead; wearing same clothes, name tag

Posted at 12:31 PM, May 18, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-18 17:18:10-04

SALT LAKE CITY – Family members of missing UTA worker 63-year-old Kay Ricks told Fox 13 Wyoming authorities found his body in the same clothes he was wearing the day he went missing.

That includes his boots, shorts and his shirt with his name tag “Kay.”

Those items are what make the family confident the man’s body found is that of Kay Ricks.

Ricks leaves behind his wife of 42 years, three sons and six grandchildren.

He was one of 11 siblings.

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