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We noticed that there was a red ring in that toilet. an inference that the police had was that perhaps the shotgun used to murder sid wells had been cleaned in that toilet bowl. interestingly enough, the bathroom on the first floor was thayne smika s bathroom. what was most interesting to us was on the coffee table next to where sid s body was found, we found a note and an envelope. the envelope had the numbers $300 written on it. august 1st was rent day. thayne smika was due to pay sid $300 that he was going to take to his mother. we didn t find anything in that envelope. the note was a note from thayne smika and it was to sam ....
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 know where thayne was and did not know how to locate him. i think mistakes were made. i think this family has suffered what my family did, incompetence, bad judgment, mistakes, and that precluded the real bad guy, the guy that killed sid, from facing justice. well, sid has been gone for ....
Program there at the university of colorado as well. sid was had a girlfriend at the time named shauna redford. after a couple, two, three dates he calls me up and he goes, rob, you re not going to believe this, but i just found out i m dating robert redford s 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 in the summer of 1983. ....
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. you re not prepared for anything to happen to your child. you re supposed to nurture those children and they re your immortality. it s unbearable. ....
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 doesn t 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. sid, he s everybody s best friend. knows no stranger. very popular in high school band, good athlete. he was just an amazing guy. everybody loved him. he was studying journalism and going to the navy rotc ....