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Erratically. they thought that he was using drugs and just kind of going downhill fast. we also interviewed another witness. jeff cohen was a friend of sids. we learned from jeff that everybody had been up the night before into the early morning hours of august 1st. he told us that what was supposed to happen that evening or early morning was thayne was supposed to return some money to sid and in addition to paying the rent, was also going to give sid some additional money and some cocaine. jeff...

Suspected that thayne smika was stealing cocaine from sid. its our belief that thayne smika that night didnt have the cocaine or the money to give back to sidney wells. >> im the father of a college student, and i think it would be very naive to not think that your college-aged son might be trying recreational drugs. he might sell recreational drugs here or there. its not a reason for someone to kill sid wells. its not a reason for police not to investigate this case. sid wells was murdered in c...

Sid was -- had a girlfriend at the time named shauna redford. after a couple, two, three dates, he called me and said you wont believe this, i just found out im dating robert redfords daughter. >> sid and shauna had been dating for almost three years. and they were just a fun couple to be around, very much in love. >> we had a condo in boulder, colorado called the spanish towers. it was great, because sid was going to school there so he could live there all through his college days. >> sam moved...

Were met by sam wells at the elevator. sam took them into the apartment and on the living room floor of the apartment, they found sidney wells dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. >> shauna redford just had seen sid a couple hours before. he was alive and well, and then to come back and find out that he had been killed, you have absolutely horrific news. >> at 4:00, my boss called me to the front of the store and said that there was someone that needed to see me. it was a police office...

Boxes upon boxes upon boxes of the investigative file into the murder of sid wells. in december of 2010, 27 years after sid wells was murdered, the d.a. signed off on an arrest warrant accusing thayne smika of murder in the first degree. >> after getting the warrant, we put together a coordinated search which included sending detectives to every place where there was members of the smika family or close friends of the smika family. unfortunately, the family without exception told us they did not...

Sam took them into the apartment and on the living room floor of the apartment, they found sidney wells dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. >> shauna redford just had seen sid a couple hours before. he was alive and well, and then to come back and find out that he had been killed, you have absolutely horrific news. >> at 4:00, my boss called me to the front of the store and said that there was someone that needed to see me. it was a police officer from boulder. >> youre not prepared f...

Little boys. >> it was a wonderful childhood, absolutely amazing. i had two younger brothers, sid and sam, and a great dad who loved the outdoors. i mean, colorado, it doesnt get any better than this. we came from very humble roots. i would say we were lower middle class, but when it came to the richness of love in the family, i think we were at the upper scale. very, very close family. >> sid was fun, outgoing. could be obnoxious at times. kind of a joking comic, always kind of a funny attitude...

On august 1st of 1983, i received a phone call from my brother, sam. he told me sid was gone, that he was killed, and murdered, and that he walked in and found him. >> the first thing the police look for in any type of a homicide scene is sign of a forced entry through the door or window, or a sign of a struggle, and they didnt see any sign that there had been an obvious burglary, robbery or assault in this apartment. that leads investigators to think that they should be looking from within, the...

What added to that suspicion was thayne smikas sister lived in the house, telling us that they had just cleaned that room and that previous to august 1st, 1983, that gun wasnt in that bedroom. i remember feeling at the time that we probably had our man. >> in early october, 1983, thayne smika was arrested for murder in the first degree. >> we heard thayne smika had been arrested, we were elated. i thought, ah. got the family settled down, law enforcement did their job, boom, were going to get th...

Envelope. >> the note was a note from thayne smika, and it was to sam and sid wells informing them that he had gone home to his parents house and he would be back in a couple of days. what was interesting to the police was that there were a number of small spots of blood found underneath the note that thayne smika wrote. >> it appeared that the note from thayne to sid and sam and the envelope had been placed there after mr. wells was shot. >> somebody placed that envelope after the murder. after...