A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 27, 1985, American naturalist Dian Fossey, 53, who had studied mountain gorillas in Africa for nearly 20 years, ...
LINCOLN, Neb. The state of Nebraska made and then abruptly took back a job offer to a man convicted of murdering Dian Fossey, the American wildlife researcher whose work in Africa was the subject of ...