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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Juan Ramirez

Year
1986
Where
Centennial, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On July 30,1986, a rancher traveling in the early morning hours along the frontage road near Airpark and I70 found the body of Juan Ramirez, dead from a single gunshot wound to his head. He was still

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

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