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Relief that we had solved the case, but within the next few days, the d.a.'s office, who had approved the arrest warrant for mr. smika, came back to us and said that they felt there was not enough evidence. as a result, they wouldn't be filing the murder charges against mr. smika. bail was set and he was released. >> in order to help further the investigation, the boulder district attorney's office convened a grand jury into the murder of sid wells. at that time, thayne smika is essentially out living in society. >> at the end of a two-year grand jury run, no indictment was issued by the grand...

>> the trail in the apartment went into thayne smika's bedroom 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 sm...

>> despite what we heard from thayne smika, no money was found on sidney wells' person, nor was any money or cocaine found in the apartment. >> several days after the murder of sid wells, the police drove back to akron, colorado to search the house of thayne smika's mother. thayne smika was not at his mother's house at the time of the search. >> thayne smika's mother talked about some not very complimentary character traits. mrs. smika thought that her son may be a psychopath and may very well have been involved in the murder of sidney wells. it was pretty significant coming from a parent, and...

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...