>> several days after the murder of sid wells, the police drove back to akron, colorado to search the house of thayne smika's mother. thayne smika was not at his mother's house at the time of the search. >> thayne smika's mother talked about some not very complimentary character traits. mrs. smika thought that her son may be a psychopath and may very well have been involved in the murder of sidney wells. it was pretty significant coming from a parent, and especially a mother. we had a search warrant for the house. one of the first areas that we searched was the bedroom closet. we pulled a box off the shelf and inside that box we found a 20 gauge shotgun. we knew that mr. wells had been killed with a 20 gauge shotgun.