05/26/2026
On Sunday, the Utah Department of Public Safety issued an AMBER Alert regarding two toddlers, 22 and 10 months old, who are believed to have been abducted by their father, Dane Richman.
Law enforcement believes they face imminent danger of injury or death.
Katie Walters, the boys’ aunt, said the family knew something was wrong when her sister, Dane’s wife, showed up at their deposition to find that Dane had fired his lawyer, saying his services were no longer needed.
Walters said they called the police to conduct a welfare check at Dane’s home because he wasn’t answering his phone. Days prior, Dane texted his wife that he would be away, camping with the children. Yet, according to Walters, police arrived at his home to find a different story.
“He had completely moved out of his house that the children were supposed to be living in, and the moving truck was just actually pulling out of the driveway, and the police were able to stop the moving truck, and they asked what’s going on,” Walters recalled. “They said they didn’t even know because they never even saw the owner of the home while they were there. They only were communicating via text.”
She added that the way he gave away all his things to his neighbors seemed off, especially since he had purchased a new dresser for the baby’s room just weeks before. Walters explained that it was unlikely that this was a pre-calculated move across the city.
“It was liquidating. On top of that, he had recently quit his job a week or so ago, so he no longer has a source of income. You put two and two together,” she said. “We have enough intel from the FBI and police to reasonably suspect that he has left the state of Utah.”
