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Here’s how a teen’s death took a reporter on a tour of a small town’s dark history

On the trail of Alden Barrett, whose 1971 death inspired ‘Jay’s Journal,’ a rock opera and ‘Satanic panic’ fears.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Alden Barrett's headstone has been vandalized quite a few times over the years, but is now at the Pleasant Grove Cemetery, seen here on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022.