CAPTURED: Rocky Mountain Killer
Two notorious murder cases stay ice cold for decades, until a mysterious clue helps bring a killer to justice.
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Episode Source Material
- UPI: Stranded motorist signals SOS to airliner, by UPI
- The Journal Times (Racine, WI): Officials probe death of ex-Racine woman, by Kevin Kraft
- Colorado Springs Gazette: Woman’s body found near summit of Hoosier, by Associated Press
- The Journal Times (Racine, WI): Autopsy shows victim was shot in chest, by Kevin Kraft
- Sioux City Journal: Native of Sioux City missing in Colorado
- Colorado Springs Gazette: Dental work identifies body, by GT wire services
- Colorado Springs Gazette: Link found in two slayings, by GT wire services
- Sioux City Journal: Fishermen find body of ex-Sioux City girl
- The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, CO): Lucas probed in two slayings, by Associated Press
- The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction, CO): ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ visits ski town, by Associated Press
- Sioux City Journal: TV show will air Schnee murder mystery, by Rebecca Schossow
- Sioux City Journal: Show exposes unsolved murder, by Rebecca Schossow
- Sioux City Journal: Oprah will show Schnee case later
- Sioux City Journal: Schnee murder case airs May 31
- Sioux City Journal: ‘Current Affair’ features Schnee
- Lethbridge Herald (Alberta, BC, Canada): In the wrong place at the wrong time, by Max Haines
- Colorado Springs Gazette: Convict a suspect in killings, by Associated Press
- Summit Daily (Summit County, CO): Cold Case: Two young women disappear within three hours of each other in 1982, by Nicole Formosa
- Summit Daily (Summit County, CO): Local cold case to be showcased on national TV show, by Nicole Formosa
- Colorado Springs Gazette: 25 years after women died, psychics shed a little light, by Deedee Correll
- Prime Video: Sensing Murder, Mountain Murders
- Park County Bulletin: Cold Case Arrest Stirs Hope For Local Investigators
- Prime Video: Unsolved Mysteries with Dennis Farina, Season 6 Episode 15
- The Denver Post: Breckenridge: two young female hitchhikers kidnapped and murdered, by Kirk Mitchell
- The Denver Channel: Investigators ask for help in 1982 double murder of Barbara ‘Bobbie Jo’ Oberholtzer, Annette Schnee, by Deb Stanley
- Westword: Annette Schnee and Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer: New Effort to Solve Their Murders 33 Years Later, by Michael Roberts
- Summit Daily: Breckenridge investigator looking for new clues in unsolved 1982 double homicide, by Alli Langley
- Rapid City Journal (Rapid City, SD): Colorado agency distributes cold case playing cards, by Associated Press
- The Denver Post: National TV show will focus on 1982 Breckenridge cold cases connected by a pair of orange socks, by Kirk Mitchell
- Discovery Plus: On the Case with Paula Zahn, Rocky Mountain Mystery
- The Denver Channel: ‘You can’t walk away’: A Colorado double murder and the chase for closure before time runs out, by Ryan Osborne
- 9 News: Genetic genealogy leads to arrest of 70-year-old man in 1982 killings of 2 women near Breckenridge, by Janet Oravetz & Caitlin Hendee
- CBSN Denver: Park County Sheriff Announces Arrest Of Alan Lee Phillips In 39-Year-Old Cold Case Murders Of Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer And Annette Schnee, by CBS4
- The Denver Channel: ’39 years of hell’: Families get closer to closure after arrest in murders of young Colorado women, by Ryan Osborne & Jaclyn Allen
- The Journal Times (Racine, WI): ‘She didn’t deserve this’ Man arrested for allegedly killing Racine woman 39 years ago in Colorado, by Adam Rogan
- The Flume: Arrest made in 1982 double-homicide, by Kelly R. Kirkpatrick
- 9 News: Sheriff on United flight spots SOS on Guanella Pass in 1982, decades later the rescued man’s charged in a double murder, by Matt Jablow
- New York Times: Man Rescued in Colorado Mountain Pass Is Accused in 1982 Murders, by Maria Cramer
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