OGDEN — A registered intercourse offender who spent greater than 30 years in jail for sexually assaulting a number of ladies in Ogden through the Nineteen Eighties is again in custody, after 4 years on parole.
A Utah Grownup Probation and Parole officer arrested Cary Hartmann, 75, in April after allegedly discovering Hartmann circumvented content material filtering controls on his TV and mobile phone with the intention to view pornography.
The circumstances of Hartmann’s parole prohibit him from accessing or possessing pornographic supplies.
Hartmann, a former Ogden police reserve officer, was first arrested in Might of 1987 on suspicion of rape. Ogden police on the time believed he was chargeable for a string of dwelling invasion sexual assaults that’d taken place throughout town through the prior yr.
The Weber County Lawyer’s Workplace filed legal expenses towards Hartmann in 4 of these circumstances.
Hartmann in handcuffs in 1987. (KSL TV)
A Weber County jury convicted Hartmann on counts of first-degree felony aggravated sexual assault and aggravated housebreaking throughout a trial in a kind of circumstances that September. The choose sentenced Hartmann to 2 phrases of 15 years-to-life and a further time period of 5 years-to-life, with the sentences operating concurrently.
Hartmann later accepted a plea deal, admitting to a first-degree felony cost of rape in a second case. In change, prosecutors dropped expenses within the remaining circumstances.
Hartmann repeatedly appeared earlier than the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole to request a launch from custody over the subsequent 30-plus years. Throughout his final parole listening to on Oct.October 2919, Hartmann stated pornography was a “drug of selection” that he turned to when his life was falling aside.
“That led to cruising for ladies and selecting ladies to make victims,” Hartmann stated. “I now not have something to do with any sort of pornography by any means.”
The parole board launched Hartmann 5 months later, after he accomplished a intercourse offender remedy program and a licensed scientific social employee concluded he offered a below-average threat to re-offend.
In a report obtained completely by KSL, an AP&P officer wrote that he visited Hartmann’s dwelling in Ogden on April 10, 2024.
The officer examined Hartmann’s mobile phone and described discovering net browser tabs open to websites containing pornography. Hartmann had additionally allegedly accessed pornography on his tv, bypassing content material filters to take action.
The parole officer wrote he supposed to have Hartmann endure a polygraph examination “because of him mendacity on totally different accounts about why he had pornography on his cellphone.”
“Once I instructed (Hartmann) he wanted to be trustworthy with me, he additionally admitted to going to Walmart about eight or 9 days in the past,” the officer wrote. “There, he bought a brand new laptop computer and took it dwelling to go online and get onto a pornography web site …Cary said he returned the laptop computer to Walmart later.”
Sheree Warren’s boyfriend, Cary Hartmann’s mug shot on Might 8, 1987, taken a year-and-a-half following Sheree’s disappearance. Hartmann’s arrest was for an unrelated rape/sexual assault. Hartmann was convicted at trial and set to jail for 32 years. (Utah Division of Corrections)
The Utah Division of Corrections classifies parole violation reviews as “protected” data beneath the state’s public data legislation, GRAMA. Nevertheless, in response to a data request from KSL, Corrections Deputy Director Jared Garcia wrote, “After contemplating each the general public curiosity on this particular matter and the opposite pursuits supposed to be protected … the Utah Division of Corrections believes that on this circumstance, the general public curiosity outweighs the opposite pursuits at play.”
The copy of the parole violation report offered to KSL contains redactions, which obscure a few of the specifics of the parole officer’s allegations. The officer did notice Hartmann’s previous statements to the parole board about viewing pornography being a precursor to his sexual assaults of girls.
“(Hartmann’s) legal mindset continues to develop whereas he has been on parole,” the officer wrote.
Hartmann is scheduled for a brand new listening to earlier than the Board of Pardons and Parole on Might 29, when he’ll have a chance to reply to the parole officer’s allegations.
The Roy Metropolis Police Division additionally considers Hartmann a suspect within the 1985 cold case disappearance of Hartmann’s then-girlfriend, Sheree Warren. Nevertheless, no legal expenses have ever been filed in that case.
Warren’s case is the topic of season 3 of KSL’s investigative podcast collection, COLD.
