Tag: colorado cold case
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Human remains identified as Colorado homicide victim missing for 10 years
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation used genetic genealogy to identify human remains as those of a homicide victim who had been missing for 10 years. The skeletal remains were discovered in May 2024 by a fisherman near a river at the Deer Creek Campground in Park County. The remains were found with clothing and a…
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38-year-old cold case murder tied to infamous Denver-area serial killer
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office announced a resolution to a 38-year-old cold case murder Tuesday. Using modern DNA and forensic analysis, investigators determined that the killer of Rhonda Marie Fisher — found dead in 1987 — was Vincent Groves, believed to be responsible for at least a dozen killings in the metro Denver area during…
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Colorado Springs cold case involving teen girl solved after more than 47 years
Colorado Springs police on Wednesday announced that a cold case murder of teenager Maria Honzell more than 47 years ago was finally solved. Thanks to the use of genetic genealogy, William C. Kernan, who died in 2010, was identified as the person responsible in the death of Honzell, who was 14 when she died on…
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Season 4: The Lonely Hearts Murders
On Valentine’s Day 1985, Cassandra Rundle and her two children were found slaughtered in their Colorado Springs home. For weeks, police tracked down men who responded to a personal ad she left in the back pages of a newspaper, looking for love. Thirty-five years later, her killer remains free.
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Season 3: Tim Watkins
The morning of Sept. 14, 2017, Tim Watkins rode his mountain bike up Mt. Herman west of Palmer Lake, just like he had done countless times before. But he never returned, and three days later, a crew of volunteer searchers found his body shot and buried on a hillside near one of his favorite trails.
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Season 2: Tommy Kinslow
Colorado Springs police officers arrived at the 3900 block of Constitution Avenue and found Thomas Kinslow lying in the middle of the street a short distance from his residence. He died from multiple gunshot wounds in November 2005.
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Season 1: Nathaniel Czajkowski
Just minutes after 3 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2017, one or more gunmen unleashed a spray of bullets on the western front of 24-hour Mexican restaurant Albertaco’s, off Austin Bluffs Parkway, and killed Nathaniel Czajkowski.
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A glimpse inside Albertacos minutes before the shooting
This video submitted by a source shows the atmosphere inside Albertacos about 40 minutes before 16-year-old Nate Czajkowski was shot and killed. If you recognize anyone in the video, call police at 719-444-7000 or get ahold of us at Colorado Cold Case at 719-636-0362.