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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Christine Jones

Year
1977
Where
Boulder, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On September 1, 1977, at about 1:00pm, Boulder County Sheriff Deputies responded to a reported drowning in Left Hand Creek, one and one half miles above Buckingham Park in Left Hand Canyon. The b

From the Colorado Bureau of Investigation cold case file. Records change. The source is the authority.

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