The Weld County Sheriff’s Office is once again asking the public to help crack a decades-old mystery, revisiting the 1985 disappearance and death of 20-year-old University of Northern Colorado student Denise Davenport. Davenport vanished from South Greeley in February 1985 and was later found in the South Platte River.
Sheriff’s office revives file, renews call for tips
In a Feb. 24 Facebook post, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office urged anyone with information about the case to contact its tip line, according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office. The agency also directs the public to its detailed cold case summary, which notes that Davenport was last seen leaving the Greeley Mall on Feb. 24, 1985. Her boyfriend’s blue Mazda RX-7 was found a few days later in a student dormitory parking lot, and her body was recovered on April 20, 1985, from the South Platte River between 18th Street and U.S. 34, according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Files.
What investigators say
Byron Kastilahn, the lead cold case detective at the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, told the Longmont Leader that the case remains “very mysterious” and that investigators have turned up few reliable leads over the years. Kastilahn told the paper he plans to resume work on Davenport’s file and is inviting new tips that could finally move the investigation forward…