DENVER — A 71-year-old Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree homicide and different fees within the chilly case slayings of two ladies whose our bodies had been discovered close to the mountain resort city of Breckenridge in 1982.
Alan Lee Phillips was arrested final 12 months within the mountain hamlet of Dumont, west of Denver, after native, state and federal authorities utilizing DNA proof recognized him as a suspect within the killings of Annette Schnee, 21, and Barbara “Bobbi Jo” Oberholtzer, 29.
A Park County jury in Fairplay deliberated for simply over 4 hours earlier than convicting Phillips of eight counts late Thursday, together with first-degree homicide after deliberation and first-degree homicide involving felony kidnapping and theft, Rob McCallum, a spokesman for the Colorado Judicial Division, stated Friday.
Phillips faces life in jail when he’s sentenced at a listening to set for Nov. 7.
Native, state and federal authorities used DNA testing to assist establish Phillips as a possible suspect officers stated on the time of Phillips’ arrest.
Authorities stated the 2 ladies, whose our bodies had been present in separate areas, had no connection. Each had been believed to be hitchhiking outdoors Breckenridge, a ski resort city about 60 miles southwest of Denver, after they disappeared on Jan. 6, 1982.
Family and friends found Oberholtzer’s physique the following day in a snow drift on the summit of 11,542-foot Hoosier Go, close to Breckenridge, at some point after she disappeared. Schnee’s physique was found six months later, absolutely clothed, in a creek in rural Park County. Each ladies had been shot.
Investigators stated Phillips was rescued the evening that the ladies disappeared from the highest of close by Guanella Go when his truck acquired caught throughout a snowstorm. The victims didn’t know Phillips or one another.
Linda Stanley, the district legal professional for the Colorado’s eleventh Judicial District, had no fast touch upon the decision. Phillips was represented by the general public defender’s workplace, which doesn’t touch upon circumstances.
