About the Coalition
Our mission is to assist families and communities in finding answers with unresolved deaths and disappearances.
Navigating
cold cases
In 1995, six-year-old Rosie Tapia was kidnapped as she slept in her family’s Salt Lake City apartment and brutally murdered. Rosie’s family sought help from attorney Karra Porter to investigate after more than two decades without answers.
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In partnership with former investigative journalist Tom Harvey and private investigator Jason K. Jensen, the nonprofit 501(c)(3) Cold Case Coalition was formed in 2017 to serve the many families and communities needing help navigating investigations into their loved ones’ cold cases.
Staff
Karra Porter
Founder & CEO
Karra is an attorney and president of Christensen & Jensen, P.C. in Salt Lake City. After co-founding the Coalition in 2017, she led the push for Rosie’s Law in 2018, which requires that all unsolved homicides and disappearances in Utah be made publicly available. She launched the first nonprofit DNA lab in the nation, Intermountain Forensics, and wrote Cold Case Help (McFarland), with a second edition coming soon.
Jennifer Haugh
Executive Director
Jen comes from a diverse background in the arts, climate change mitigation, public radio, and nonprofit management. She earned two graduate degrees from Harvard and a graduate certificate from the University of New Haven in forensic genetic genealogy.
Alyn Grey
Chief Innovation Officer
Alyssa Ellis
Co-Director, FIGG
Project Manager, 1921 Tulsa Identification Project
Liz Marshall
Co-Director, FIGG
Outreach Specialist, 1921 Tulsa Identification Project
Justina Cook
Coordinator, FIGG
Administrator, 1921 Tulsa Identification Project
Board of Directors
Jessica Chapple
Emily Lindquist
Michelle Palmer
Betty Porter
Nicole Roach
Renee van Tussenbrook