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Smika has disappeared but dave hayes, caring, determined, dedicated cop, never gives up. >> every year, he was bringing more information forward on my brother's case. it could be evidence like the shotgun shells and taking all of this evidence and re-evaluating it, reanalyzing it and bringing in new technologies, new forensics, in to see how that could be applied in this case, and he would go in every year with new evidence to the d.a.s. >> we wanted to bring the case to conclusion. no matter how long it took, we were going to stay with it. >> i started in the boulder district attorney's offic...

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 didn't 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, they should be looking at roommates or friends or relatives or people who had access to this apartment...

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...

And it went into the bathroom. >> in the downstairs bathroom, 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 mo...

Jeff told us that his friend sid had been selling small amounts of cocaine in the previous months, and that sid had suspected that thayne smika was stealing cocaine from sid. it's our belief that thayne smika that night didn't have the cocaine or the money to give back to sidney wells. >> i'm 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. it's not a reason for someone to kill sid wells. it's not a reason for police not to investigate this case. sid we...