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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Julia Detemple

Year
1986
Where
Golden, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On September 17, 1986, two employees were loading gravel on an outlying Coors property, when they found a badly decomposed body in a nearby brush. Investigation determined the body was that of 26 year

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

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