Did They Ever Solve This? (Colorado Murder)....

[Opal]

This story re-aired on Lifetime a few days ago. I'm wondering if it was ever solved....

It's about this upper-middle class couple that live in Colorado. The husband is murdered in the house, and they tie up the wife (thankfully never harming her). I believe her name is D.J.
Time passes with no leads in the case. Then, like 2 or 3 years later, someone sends the wife a letter in the mail claiming to be the person that killed her husband. They want money and threaten to kill the daughter if they don't get it!

I think the murder happened in either 1985 or 1986.

This case always bugged me. I felt so bad for that lady! First her husband was murdered, her son died in a car wreck just about a year before that, and then she has people (possibly the same that killed her husband) threatening to kill her daughter!

I noticed there were no updates included in the recent airing.

Any leads? Anything?

[UMfan0682]

This is the case of Roger Dean from one of the NBC shows. Not sure of any updates, but I do remember when police investigated, they speculated Roger may have had some involvement. He was tied up with his wife, and the intruder had Roger come outside where he was stabbed. Where Roger had been tied up, police found his glasses, which had tape on them, and it was found out later he didn't need them to see. He was also seen before the incident, waiting for someone outside his house. He was known to always leave for work right on time.

After several threats to the family of Roger Dean, they agreed to pay a ransom and the FBI had a surveillance team on a bag of money placed in a parking lot, but the person making the phone calls to the family never claimed the money. It's hard to say if Roger had any involvement in this case...

[dynoguy88]

Yes, this case was disturbing. And it all happened in Littleton, Colorado - where everyone knows the Columbine tragedy took place in 1999.

Roger Dean was killed in December of 1985. It wasn't until the summer of 1990 that the killer sent D.J. and Tammy the threatening letter. I agree, they had already experienced enough tragedy (son died in car accident, parents died in another accident, Roger gets murdered) and now some psycho is stalking them for money. I have this segment on tape and after pausing the VCR when they show the letter, I can only read about one paragraph. The killer tells D.J. that he had met Tammy on several occasions and that she was a very attractive model. So, it must me somebody the family knows.

It is believed that Roger Dean and the killer were involved with something - in the year prior to his murder, he took out a seperate bank account of $30,000 and never told his wife about it. That might have something to do with his murder but nobody knows for sure.

[Opal]

Thanks for responses.

I wish they could catch the people that are involved in this. Someone must know SOMETHING. I can't believe all these years have passed, and still.... nothing. I wonder how D.J. and her daughter are doing now. It must be awful knowing those people are still out there.

[Kane]

Originally Posted by Opal

Thanks for responses.

I wish they could catch the people that are involved in this. Someone must know SOMETHING. I can't believe all these years have passed, and still.... nothing. I wonder how D.J. and her daughter are doing now. It must be awful knowing those people are still out there.

Opal, I feel the same as you. If the cops could catch the killer now, they would. But with no evidence as to who was involved, they are currently powerless to do so.

When you see shows like CSI, Diagnosis Murder, Kojak, or Murder She Wrote, a case is solved within an hour. But in real life, as you know, it's not that easy.