COLORADO 1982 Cold Case Finally Solved — Two Women, One Night, One Road... 39 Years

In January 1982, two women — Bobby Jo Oberholtzer, twenty-nine, and Annette Schnee, twenty-one — were both hitchhiking home on the same Colorado mountain highway on the same freezing January night when they were murdered by the same man and left miles apart in the snow near Breckenridge, Colorado. This is a true crime cold case documentary covering one of Colorado's most haunting unsolved mountain murders — a double homicide cold case that went without an arrest for forty years until genetic genealogy and a DNA match from a discarded Sonic Drive-In napkin identified retired mechanic and miner Alan Lee Phillips, who had been living forty-five miles from the crime scene the entire time. The case features one of the most remarkable pieces of forensic evidence in true crime history — a pair of bright orange socks Annette's mother had mailed her from Sioux City Iowa as a Christmas present, one found at Bobby Jo's scene and the matching one still on Annette's foot six months later — physically linking both murder scenes to one killer. Bobby Jo fought back against her attacker in a blizzard at eleven thousand feet on Hoosier Pass and tore his blood from his body, leaving it on her wool glove — the same blood that would identify Alan Lee Phillips forty years later through genetic genealogy performed by forensic firm United Data Connect. Phillips was convicted on all eight counts in September 2022 by a Park County jury that deliberated just five hours, sentenced to two consecutive life terms in November 2022 by Judge Stephen Broome, and died in prison on February twenty-seventh, 2023 before his appeal was resolved — triggering Colorado's legal abatement doctrine, which vacated his convictions from the official record entirely, leaving two families without a legal record of the man who killed their daughters, sisters, and mothers. This full documentary cold case investigation covers the complete timeline from January 1982 through the conviction, sentencing, death, legal abatement, and the ongoing civil lawsuit filed by Phillips' daughter Andrea Shelton — and honours the extraordinary courage of Bobby Jo Oberholtzer, whose refusal to stop fighting in her final minutes solved both her own murder and Annette Schnee's forty years later. IF YOU ARE NEW TO VERA COLD CASE: This channel covers cold cases, wrongful convictions, overlooked victims, and the breakthroughs that finally gave families answers. We research every case from verified sources and present the facts with the respect the victims and families deserve. Subscribe so you never miss a case. Hit the bell so the algorithm makes sure you see every upload. Drop a comment telling us what detail in this case stayed with you longest. #ColoradoColdCase #BobbyJoOberholtzer #AnnetteSchnee #TrueCrime #ColdCase #ColdCaseDocumentary #UnsovledMurders #GeneticGenealogy #HoosierPass #Breckenridge #TrueCrimeDocumentary #ColoradoMurder #VictimJustice #DNA Evidence #ForensicGenealogy #TrueCrimeCommunity #ColdCaseSolved #VeraColdCase #MountainMurder #DoubleHomicide #JusticeForVictims #TrueCrimeYouTube #CriminalInvestigation #ColdCaseFiles #UnsovledCrimes #DNASolved #TrueCrimeStories #FemaleVictims #JusticeForWomen #ColoradoHistory