JENNIFER DOBNER
PAUL FOY
Associated Press Writers
SALT LAKE CITY – Newly released police records show a Utah man held in the slaying of his 4-year-old stepson became increasing violent toward the boy in the days leading up to the child’s death, then disfigured the boy’s face before burying his body in a canyon.
Police unearthed Ethan Stacy’s body Tuesday, just 10 days after investigators say a Virginia judge sent the boy to spend the summer with his mother in Layton, about 25 miles north of Salt Lake City.