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Man Rescued in Colorado Mountain Pass Is Accused in 1982 Murders
Alan Lee Phillips was rescued from a snowdrift in 1982 after he signaled SOS with his headlights. The police now say he became trapped on the road after killing two women.
A cross erected at the site where Annette Schnee’s body was found in Park County, Colo., in 1982. Investigators had struggled for decades to resolve her case and that of another woman, Barbara Jo Oberholtzer.Credit.Park County Sheriff’s Office
May 27, 2021, 8:07 a.m. ET
On a January night in 1982, Alan Lee Phillips was found shivering in his pickup, stuck in a snowdrift on a treacherous mountain pass in central Colorado.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Unlike the articles he read in the Denver media, Rubinstein didn’t want to shine undue light on the city’s power brokers, and instead spent most of his time reporting on what he calls “invisible Denver” the neighborhood communities, activist circles and even gangs that are so often ignored by the mainstream press.
“What I wanted to do and it turned out to be even more important than I first realized was to tell this story mostly from the perspective of the people who were not represented over the years in those types of stories,” he says. “It was so hard to really find material about this kind of neighborhood that wasn’t from law enforcement sources.