BOULDER, Colo. (TCN) — A cold case recently came to a close after investigators identified a suspect in the death of a 20-year-old gas station clerk who was found dead nearly five decades ago.
According to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office , on Sept. 29, 1975, deputies responded to a report of a deceased man and discovered John Patterson, a clerk at the Cascade Service Station, in the gas station restroom with a fatal stab wound to his chest. Authorities also found unfired cartridges on the bathroom floor near Patterson’s body.
The cash register was reportedly open with cash missing, suggesting robbery was the motive in the deadly stabbing…