[2] Despite an extensive search and media coverage (including renewed attention in the early 2010s), neither Jeppson nor the dogs have been located.

At the time of his disappearance, he had eleven siblings and he and his family lived in Salt Lake City, Utah; they also had a summer home in Montana.

Jeppson is described as a good and popular student with many friends in both Salt Lake City and Montana, and who enjoyed training his dogs to hunt birds.

[4] In September 2012, Salt Lake City police searched a gully using shovels and a backhoe for Jeppson's remains, which yielded no results.

[5] Jeppson's family had a tombstone for him interred at Larkin Sunset Lawn Cemetery in Salt Lake City, listing his birth and disappearance dates.