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Long-time Utah reporter Marco Ortiz dies unexpectedly

Utah Public Radio | By Duck Thurgood
Published November 7, 2022 at 7:04 PM MST
Headshot of Marco Ortiz, a man with short dark hair, a mustache and glasses. He's wearing a suit and smiling.
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Marco Ortiz, long-time KTVX-Channel 4 reporter, passed away unexpectedly Saturday morning. No cause of death was announced.

Ortiz started at KUTV-Channel 2 in 1992 as a general assignment reporter before switching to reporting on crime, which he continued after moving to KTVX in 2004. He was best known for his reports about unsolved crimes called “Justice Files.”

Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Duck Thurgood
Duck is a general reporter and weekend announcer at UPR, and is studying broadcast journalism and disability studies at USU. They grew up in northern Colorado before moving to Logan in 2018, so the Rocky Mountain life is all they know. Free time is generally spent with their dog, Monty, listening to podcasts, reading or wishing they could be outside more.
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