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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Joseph Peters

Year
2012
Where
Greeley, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On May 16, 2012, the body of Joseph Peters was discovered by employees of the Farmers Reservoir and Irrigation Company. The body was found shot and wrapped in a blue tarp in an irrigation ditch near I

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

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