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It has been roughly 642 days since the brutal murder of Maggie Long sent shockwaves of grief, anger and fear throughout the small mountain community of Bailey.
Sheriff on United flight spots SOS on Guanella Pass in 1982, decades later the rescued man s charged in a double murder Matt Jablow
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Two young women disappeared from the Breckenridge area on the evening of Jan. 6, 1982. Both were last seen hitchhiking and their bodies were eventually found months apart.
On that very same night, a rescuer saved a man at the top of Guanella Pass who had been caught in a snowstorm. The two events remained seemingly unconnected for decades. That is until earlier this year.
Dave Montoya still remembers the day vividly. He was a fire chief in Clear Creek County in 1982.
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Dave Montoya sits down for an interview with reporter Matt Jablow.
“I thought it was the craziest thing I ever heard of,” Montoya said during a recent interview with 9Wants to Know.
About 15 minutes after he got the call, Montoya made his way to the top of Guanella Pass, where he found the driver, 30-year-old Alan Phillips, stuck in a snowdrift.
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“Sure as heck, there he was in his little pickup, and he saw me and said, ‘Oh, God, I’m saved,’” Montoya said. “He said he got drunk and decided to drive home. And I said, ‘You came up over the pass? And he said, well, it seemed like a good idea.’ I thought, how in the heck did this guy get so lucky, for all the stuff to fall into place?”