Denver FBI use aging technology for Boulder murder cold case

DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver FBI and Boulder Police Department are using age progression technology to try to identify a suspect accused of fleeing from the state after allegedly murdering his roommate and University of Colorado Boulder student in 1983, according to a social media post from the Denver FBI Field Office on Friday morning.

Then 24-year-old Thayne Alana Smika is wanted for the alleged murder of his roommate, 22-year-old Sidney Lee Wells, on Aug. 1, 1983.

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On that day, police responded to an apartment complex in Boulder and found Wells dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his apartment. He was a senior studying journalism and a member of the Navy ROTC.

Police identified Smika as a suspect at the time, but he did not face any charges…

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