What's the name of this case, and was it ever solved?

[Kyte]

I remember watching this case with my brother when we were young, but it was the one where it was about a wife and a husband and on this weird morning the husband was up a little early or late (can't remember) looking out, in the garage like he was expecting someone, and some guy comes and shoots him to death and runs off.

Something like that, I think they were in a bad money situation, which was the backdrop of the case I think. And the wife said he knew too much about his husband even though the relationship was failing that something broader was kept from her.

[crystaldawn]

I remember watching this case with my brother when we were young, but it was the one where it was about a wife and a husband and on this weird morning the husband was up a little early or late (can't remember) looking out, in the garage like he was expecting someone, and some guy comes and shoots him to death and runs off.

Something like that, I think they were in a bad money situation, which was the backdrop of the case I think. And the wife said he knew too much about his husband even though the relationship was failing that something broader was kept from her.

The man who was murdered was Roger Dean. I don't know if anyone was arrested for the crime. It would be interesting to know.

[Kyte]

The man who was murdered was Roger Dean. I don't know if anyone was arrested for the crime. It would be interesting to know.

Haha, thanks.

crystaldawn, did you watch ever episode? How do you sleep at night?

[crystaldawn]

Haha, thanks.

crystaldawn, did you watch ever episode? How do you sleep at night?

Ah yes I've seen it many times. I agree it is quite disturbing especially the scene with Roger and his wife in the bedroom. :eek: Not sure if you remember this part either but the widow also got demands for money and Roger's daughter's life was threatened. They show a scene where the widow drops off the demanded money at a specified place (with police hiding nearby) but it was never picked up. I'm assuming they caught wind that the police were involved. It seems like who killed Roger may have been slighted in business dealings with him (just my opinion) because normally they wouldn't have the nerve to ask for the money after they had already killed him unless they felt it was owed to them.

[unsolvedmysteriesfan]

I can't find anything on Tammy/Tamara Dean, but an article in one of the Denver papers in 2000 and one later in 2003 mention D.J. as giving some money to a charity or something, among several other names.

Also

Family seeks clues to 6-year-old murder
Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO) - November 4, 1991

CASTLE ROCK - The widow of a murdered retail food broker and her daughter say they are breaking years of silence about the murder and subsequent extortion attempts in order to end years of terror.

Roger Dean , the owner of Sinsel-Dean Brokerage Co. Inc., was shot to death outside his home in Douglas County's upscale Lone Tree subdivision Nov. 21, 1985.

His wife, D.J., said she was taking a bath when her husband of 26 years called her into the bedroom. She said a masked man was holding a gun to her husband and ordered Dean to tie up his wife and cover her eyes with tape. Then the two men apparently left the room.

The intruder soon returned and demanded information from D.J. about the couple's savings account. She gave him a few details before he "lost all control" and "became very agitated."

She said she heard scuffling downstairs, followed by shots. Then her husband shouted, "OK, you . . ., I'll give you the $30,000."

Dean's body later was found at the foot of their snow-covered driveway. He had been shot six times.

Investigators say the case wasn't a random robbery. Douglas County Sheriff's Capt. Bill Walker says Dean may have been the victim of an extortionist and possibly knew the man was coming.

Investigators think the intruder may not have intended to kill Dean, Walker said. But the investigation came up empty and was put on inactive status in the summer of 1986.

When D.J. Dean and her daughter, Tammy, began receiving extortion letters in July 1990, investigators reopened the case.

The first of three extortion letters arrived on July 21, 1990. Investigators say they are almost certain the letters came from Roger Dean 's killer.

The first letter - laced with vulgarities - demanded $150,000. If D.J. Dean didn't pay, 29-year-old Tammy would be killed, it said.

"Do not risk your daughter. She's the last one left," the letter said. "If you go to the police, I'll wait until they can no longer protect her and kill her."

Police say the extortionist knows details of Tammy's life from before Dean's murder and, based on information in his extortion letter, has followed her extensively since.

The extortionist stayed in contact with the Deans for a month through letters and phone calls. Twice, he lured the Deans, police and FBI agents into proposed money drops but never picked up the money.

The Deans and authorities talked for the first time about the extortion and murder on Saturday, hoping someone with information will come forward.

"We have two serious crimes," said Robert Pence, who heads the Denver FBI office. "We feel the key to one very well could lie with the answer to the other. What's most unusual is (we have) an individual involved in the most serious crime, a homicide, who would then five years later admit it, and then turn around and try to extort the victim's family. That's unprecedented."

An extensive financial evaluation revealed that in the eight months before he was killed, Roger Dean secretly transferred $32,000 from his company's bank account to a private bank account, sheriff's Sgt. Tony Spurlock said. After the murder, the account had about $200.

Investigators have questioned more than 200 people who knew the Deans or had business dealings with them. All but about 30 have been cleared, Spurlock said.

The case also will be featured on NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" at 7 p.m. Wednesday on Channels 5/30.

"It's a real difficult decision to come forward with this. . . . We don't know what we're going to trigger in him," said Walker.