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A plane spotted his SOS and saved him in 1982. It was the same night he killed two women, police now say.
Jaclyn Peiser, The Washington Post
May 25, 2021
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Annette Kay Schnee, left, and Barbara Jo Oberholtzer were found dead in 1982 near Breckenridge, Colo. Police say they ve made an arrest in the case, now 70-year-old Alan Lee Phillips.Colorado Bureau of Investigation/Handout
As Harold E. Bray peered out an airplane window over the Colorado mountains one night in January 1982, he noticed flashes of light on a darkened pass below: three short, three long, then three short again.
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Investigators believe they’ve found the man responsible for killing a pair of young women near Breckenridge in 1982.
On Jan. 6, 1982, Barbara Jo Oberholtzer, 29, and Annette Kay Schnee, 21, went missing near Breckenridge. They were found dead in the area about six months apart, but their killer has remained a mystery for nearly 40 years.
During a press conference at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation headquarters in Lakewood on Wednesday, March 3, officials announced their belief that they have finally caught the perpetrator. Alan Lee Phillips, 70, of Dumont, was arrested Feb. 24 on two charges each of first-degree homicide, kidnapping and assault. Phillips is in custody at the Park County Jail.
PARK COUNTY, Colo. Authorities in Colorado have arrested a 70-year-old man in connection to the 1982 murders of two women who were last seen hitchhiking from a small town near the Rocky Mountains, according to reports.
Alan Lee Phillips was taken into custody for the deaths of Annette Schnee, 22