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The Colorado Cold Case Database features unsolved homicides, missing person, and unidentified person cases to assist law enforcement agencies in the development of information which can lead to the identification and arrest of any person(s) who may have committed any crime described on this page.

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. This is the first in-depth account of this sensational case.

"In I WILL FIND YOU, the star of Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda shares his deepest, darkest, and never-before-revealed case files from his two decades as a homicide detective and reminds us that crimes like these are very real and can happen even in our own backyards." --

Former FBI agent and prize-winning author, Peter Klismet, captivated readers with his books FBI DIARY: PROFILES OF EVIL and FBI ANIMAL HOUSE. Now Klismet recounts the riveting true story of the largest manhunt in the western United States to locate the cold-blooded killers of Cortez Police Officer, Dale Claxton in May of 1998 and the decade-long investigation that followed.