The Associated Press | Posted: Thursday, October 6, 2005 12:00 am
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Ten years after he went missing during a Colorado hiking trip, the remains of a former Salt Lake City television broadcaster have been found.
Last month, hikers found the skeletal remains of Jim Mills on a mountainside along with his sun-bleached backpack.
In August 1995, Mills, then 43, was hiking to the top of Blanca Peak near Denver with his brother, brother and son. Mills was never seen again after he apparently slipped on the mountain with his backpack.
A memorial service was held Saturday in Denver.
"This has given them closure and they're doing quite well," Mills' ex-wife, Gail Jensen, of Ogden, said about how his four children are handling the news. "It's been a long 10 years wondering what had happened. We all though we knew what happened but there was always a question."
Mills was co-host of "PM Magazine," a half-hour feature-news magazine show on KUTV Channel 2 in the 1980s.
Mills graduated from Brigham Young University in 1979 in broadcast journalism and got his first job at an Idaho Falls, Idaho, television station. He later was a news anchor in Spokane, Wash., before returning to Salt Lake City for "PM Magazine."
Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com