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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Sherry Boyd

Year
1987
Where
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On October 16, 1987, the CSPD received a report that a body was floating in Prospect Lake, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. CSPD officers retrieved 44 year old Sherry Boyd from the lake. She had

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

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