By Megan McKellar, News Writer

May 26, 2020

  On May 17, the Salt Lake Tribune published an article which described how Miguel Deras, a former University of Utah police officer assigned to Lauren McCluskey’s case, saved explicit images of her to his phone prior to her murder. He also showed the images to a male colleague and bragged about “getting to look at them whenever he wanted,” according to the article.   The independent review conducted shortly after McCluskey’s death revealed several issues in the handling of the case by the University of Utah Department of Public Safety, according to the review’s report.   McCluskey’s parents responded to the case’s newest developments in a press conference the day after the Tribune’s article was published. Jill McCluskey, McCluskey’s mother, said she expected Deras to arrest the man who had been stalking and blackmailing her daughter...