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Unsolved homicide

Killing of James Austin

Year
1992
Where
Denver, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

37 year old James Austin and Clarence Smith were drinking buddies and would frequently go to the area of East Colfax and Yosemite Street on the Denver-Aurora city border. They would gamble and go to t

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

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