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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Linda Thompson

Year
1973
Where
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On June 18, 1973, 25 year old Linda Thompson had just dropped her young son off at her babysitter's house near airport road when she was shot by an unknown assailant in the front yard of that residenc

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

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What does the record establish, and what has never been explained?

  • Read the source and write down every date, place and name it gives.
  • Find the earliest news report you can and note what it says that later accounts dropped.
  • List what has never been explained. One line each.

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