Profile

Name: Robert Ellis Cox (Wade Robert Garrett)
Aliases: Wade Robert Garrett
Sex: Male
Race: White
Age Now: 48
Height: 6'2''
Weight: 150 lbs.
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
Wanted for: Sodomy Upon a Child, Sandy, UT; Jul 01, 1995
Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, Sandy, UT; Jul 01, 1995

Locations

Last seen: Esko, MN
Possible location: Unkown
Last known: Unkown

Traits

May have weapons
Good at changing his appearance
Cox denied molesting the children in a courtesy interview.
Likes to smoke
Drinks Pepsi
Likes to shoot guns

Case Story

Retired Police Officer Accused of Sex Crimes

Robert Cox is wanted by the Sandy Police Department for child molestation. Cox was a police officer with the West Valley Police Department in Salt Lake Valley. Cox married a woman who had two young daughters and moved in with them. According to officials, Cox stayed home with the children while their mother worked. Shortly after he retired form the police force, the daughters revealed that Cox had been sexually abusing them. The sexual abuse incidents occurred in Sandy from the summer of 1995 to June 1996.

An investigation into the allegations was launched, but before it could be concluded, Cox fled the state. He resurfaced in Minnesota and got a job at Wal-Mart. Sandy Police Department detectives tracked him there and asked Minnesota cops to make contact with Cox. The Minnesota cops conducted a video-taped interview about the molestation case back in Utah, but because no formal charges were filed at the time, Cox was not arrested. He vanished again after the interview.