Tag: cold case

When crimes go cold, police are stuck with a burden that never really goes away. That’s especially true for the most heinous of cases, and the murders of Cassandra Rundle and her children on Valentine’s Day 1985 certainly fit the bill. In the latest episode of The Gazette’s Colorado Cold Case, which airs Monday, Dick…

The night before 10-year-old Melanie Sturm was found slain in her Ivywild home alongside her mother and older brother on Feb. 14, 1985, she was surrounded by her classmates at Cañon Elementary School’s bazaar. The fifth-grader danced in pink plastic shoes and wore a black hat with blinking multicolored lights in the hopes that it…

Long before the days of swiping left on a phone app, or posting carefully crafted profiles on paid websites, people sought love in the back pages of a newspaper. Cassandra Rundle was one of them. In the summer of 1984, the shy and twice-divorced Rundle took out two personal ads in the now-defunct Colorado Spring…

On Valentine’s Day 1985, Cassandra Rundle and her two children were found slaughtered inside their Ivywild home. After a vicious crime that reverberated through Colorado Springs and beyond, police focused their investigation on personal ads Rundle had taken out in a The Colorado Springs Sun, a now-defunct daily newspaper. She had been looking for “one…

Two years before Tim Watkins was shot and his body found buried in the hills above Palmer Lake, another 60-year-old man was killed in that same forest — a symptom, some say, of an area gone wild with too little supervision. The latest episode of the Colorado Cold Case podcast appeared online Monday, examining longstanding…

The third episode of Colorado Cold Case’s latest season appeared online Monday, detailing the volunteer-led search two years ago for Palmer mountain biking icon Tim Watkins after he went missing during a ride on Mount Herman. The episode, which was reported and produced by The Gazette, unpacks the mystery behind Watkins’ disappearance in September 2017,…

Colorado Cold Case’s latest episode appeared online Monday, exploring the life of Tim Watkins, his love of mountain biking and the horrific Forest Service accident that solidified his love of the sport. The podcast, which was reported and produced by The Gazette, continues to examine the unsolved killing of Watkins, 60 — an iconic Palmer…

Colorado Cold Case returned for its third season Monday, examining the unsolved killing of Palmer Lake mountain biker Tim Watkins and the unanswered questions that continue to haunt his family and friends. The podcast, reported and produced by The Gazette, comes on the heels of the two-year anniversary of Watkins’ disappearance and death on Mount…