After nearly 40 years and advances in genetic geneaology testing, Alan Lee Phillips was convicted and sentenced for the murders of Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee – two young women killed hours apart on a snowy day near Breckenridge, Colorado.
After nearly 40 years and advances in genetic geneaology testing, Alan Lee Phillips was convicted and sentenced for the murders of Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee – two young women killed hours apart on a snowy day near Breckenridge, Colorado.
Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee were murdered in 1982. That same night, Alan Lee Phillips was rescued from a snowy mountain pass. Police now know he became stranded after dumping their bodies.
Arrest made in murder of a Racine woman in the Rocky Mountains in 1982
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On the night of Jan. 6, 1982, her life was taken.
Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer, a Racine native born Barbara Burns, was trying to hitchhike home from a bar to her home in Alma, Colo. She never made it home. She was 29.
After 39 years, Colorado law enforcement spurred on by an obsessed, retired detective who refused to give up and thought he would die before the case was solved say they have found the man who killed Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer in what had been known as the “Rocky Mountain Cold Case.”
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