Post by hi224 on Jun 18, 2019 18:02:50 GMT
near Colorado State University...
blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2012/11/24/man-convicted-fort-collins-cold-case-released-killed-peggy-hettrick/5933/5/
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/02/08/peggy-hettrick-murder-cold-case-fort-collins/97378070
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/02/17/29-years-later-cold-case-haunts-fort-collins/80406396
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Hettrick_murder_case
www.greeleytribune.com/windsor/the-two-lives-of-dr-richard-hammond
www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3412
www.5280.com/2011/12/presumed-guilty/
Fort Collins, CO was built in the 1800's by/for the US Army. The city lies along Colorado's 'Front Range'.
The Warren Lake area was changing in 1987. Big, beautiful homes were being built; and shopping areas were cropping up to support the new residents.
It would have been cold on that night in February (average low temp. is 20 F ).
Peggy was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed maybe 110 pounds. She had red hair, pale skin and blue eyes. When she had finished her night shift in the lingerie department of the Fashion Bar, Peggy walked to her apartment, but she had been accidentally locked out by her roommate, who was asleep.
Irritated, Peggy walked back to town and headed to a local bar. Peggy headed to the Prime Minister, a restaurant half a mile from her apartment, where she sat at the bar drinking vodka tonics and smoking Merit cigarettes.
At one point, Peggy returned to her apartment at the **Aspen Leaf** complex on Stover Street, to change clothes. Then, she went back out to enjoy the nearby restaurants. Peggy was last seen alive at approx. 1:30 AM, leaving the Prime Minister, at the corner of *College Avenue and Boardwalk Drive.*
Sadly, Peggy was brutally murdered sometime in the early morning hours of February 11. She was found by a bicyclist, in the 3500 block of Landings Drive, less than 500 yards from the Prime Minister (where she was last seen alive around 1:30 AM).
Peggy's body was dragged from the 3500 block, thru the prairie grass to where it was found. Her purse was still on her shoulder.in the purse were I we 50 items including passport and three packs of cigarettes, as well as over 20 fingerprints. Some were Peggy's; some were her boy friend Matthew's ; others were unknown.
Peggy had been stabbed in the back, and her body had been strangely mutilated.
The condition of the body seemed to indicate that the murderer would have used special equipment, and possibly some surgical skill.
Tammi Witt worked with Hettrick at the Fashion Bar, at The Square, on the corner of College Avenue and Horsetooth Road.
>"We had an appointment that day (11th) to go to lunch, so I called the Fashion Bar to talk to her," Witt said.
But there would be no lunch date on the 11th; Tammi learned that Peggy had been murdered.
Debi Flamio, a close friend of Peggy's who lived in Denver, said it wasn't unusual for Peggy to walk from work to her apartment, and then to walk to the neighborhood bars. The news about Peggy hit her hard.
>"It was especially hard for me. I'm a hairdresser and I was .....asked to do her makeup and hair in her casket."
Linda Wheeler-Holloway is a detective in the Fort Collins Police Dept. who worked the case.
>"Of all the cases I've seen...This is the one that stays with me, that haunts me. Had I known her in life, I probably would have liked her and befriended her. "
Hettrick was described as a fun loving, artistic, and well traveled woman. In Peggy's tidy apartment at the AspenLeaf , shelves were filled with books. Peggy was writing her own novel, a fiction piece about diamond smugglers.
# The Prosecution of Tim Masters
**Tim Masters** A 15-year-old high school sophomore, Tim Masters lived with his father in a trailer near the scene where Peggy was found. His father Clyde told the detectives that Tim had stopped to look at 'something' in the field that morning, on his way to the school bus stop. Finding Peggy's remains, Tim Masters first believed that it was a mannequin, left as a prank. Masters did not report the body to the police, and he continued to walk to the bus stop that morning.
This aroused the suspicion of law enforcement, who pulled "Toothpick" Tim Masters out of his school that day for questioning. Masters allowed police to search his room, where they found several thousand pages of violently misogynistic writings and drawings in his closet, as well as a collection of knives. Lt. Jim Broderick, would track the whereabouts of Tim Masters for 11 years. Broderick seemed convinced that this was Peggy's killer.
After high school graduation, Tim Masters served eight years in the Navy; he was honorably discharged. Masters then worked for Learjet as an aviation mechanic until 1997.
Masters spent 11 years under suspicion.
In 1997, police enlisted the help of J. Reid Meloy, a psychologist specializing in sexual homicide. Meloy concluded that Masters’ artwork (drawings found in his bedroom) implicated him in the crime. Masters was arrested in August 1998; he was found guilty in March 1999, sentenced to life without parole.
Several appeals were mounted on Tim's behalf. These were based on DNA test results which were left on Hettrick's clothing. The tests pointed instead to Hettrick's boyfriend, whom she had seen the night before.
A judge vacated the conviction against Masters, and Tim Masters was released in 2008, after serving a decade in prison.
Tim Masters: The Wrong Man in Prison
Tim Masters spent ten years in a prison cell.
His mattress was like cardboard; sleep was difficult.
Tim has an old farmhouse now, in Greeley, Colorado. Tim has, at times, spoken to the media about his ordeal.
www.5280.com/2011/12/presumed-guilty/
* The county settled with Tim Masters for **US $4.1 million** and the City of Fort Collins settled for **US $5.9 million**, for a total of **$10 million settlement paid to Tim Masters**.
If Not Tim Masters, Then Who Killed Peggy?
*Suspects*
***Richard Hammond***
In 1995, seven years after the murder, Dr. Richard Hammond, a local eye surgeon, was arrested for secretly filming women through fake grates in his downstairs bathroom. Source, Greeley Tribune: Beginning in 1992, Hammond rigged an elaborate videotaping operation for filming women who visited his downstairs bathroom. The machinery was triggered with a light switch. Victims included friends, friends' wives, house sitters, and babysitters. Hammond was arrested in 1995.
**Additionally:**
* Hammond's bedroom in 1987 overlooked the area where Peggy's body was discovered.**
* He was home the morning after the murder, in spite of the fact that he normally had surgery appointments that morning.
Days after the 1995 arrest, free on bond, Hammond **committed suicide in a Denver hotel room**. Police were called to a La Quinta Motor Inn, where Hammond was found to have ended his life with cyanide, strong enough to corrode the skin from his arm bones.
Stalker Incident
**Feb. 1987:** Bartender Terry Sofris, at the Prime Minister, reported a crank caller/stalker, who showed up at the Prime Minister, a few days after Peggy's murder. The physical description matched Richard Hammond. The location matches the bar where Peggy was last seen alive. And Terry Sofris had red hair.... like Peggy.
***Matthew Zoellner*** Zoellner, to quote one article, "liked cold beer and pretty women". In fact, Peggy saw him with another woman that evening, so she declined his offer of a ride home.
Zoellner was several years younger than Peggy, a used car salesman and was an "on again, off again boy friend" of Peggy's.
I could find no further information on this person of interest. Yett his DNA played role in Tim Masters' release; and his fingerprints were apparently found in Peggy's purse.
***Who was Derrick?*** Sharon DeConinck, 26, was staying with Peggy at the time of her murder. Sharon reported that there was another man, in his 20s with long hair called Derrick, who had been pursuing Peggy for a date. They had met at the Laughing Dog Saloon, she said.
Peggy's walking route on the night of Feb. 10/11. TO the left(west) is The Square, where she worked; TO the south is where the Prime Minister Restaurant was located, at College and Broadway; and her apartment complex, the Aspen Leaf, is on the east side of map.
Did Peggy accept a ride from someone on that cold night?
Who killed Peggy Hettrick and left her remains in a field on Landings Drive, in the early morning hours of Feb. 11, 1987?
this happened where I live......
blogs.denverpost.com/coldcases/2012/11/24/man-convicted-fort-collins-cold-case-released-killed-peggy-hettrick/5933/5/
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/02/08/peggy-hettrick-murder-cold-case-fort-collins/97378070
www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2017/02/17/29-years-later-cold-case-haunts-fort-collins/80406396
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Hettrick_murder_case
www.greeleytribune.com/windsor/the-two-lives-of-dr-richard-hammond
www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3412
www.5280.com/2011/12/presumed-guilty/
Fort Collins, CO was built in the 1800's by/for the US Army. The city lies along Colorado's 'Front Range'.
The Warren Lake area was changing in 1987. Big, beautiful homes were being built; and shopping areas were cropping up to support the new residents.
It would have been cold on that night in February (average low temp. is 20 F ).
Peggy was 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighed maybe 110 pounds. She had red hair, pale skin and blue eyes. When she had finished her night shift in the lingerie department of the Fashion Bar, Peggy walked to her apartment, but she had been accidentally locked out by her roommate, who was asleep.
Irritated, Peggy walked back to town and headed to a local bar. Peggy headed to the Prime Minister, a restaurant half a mile from her apartment, where she sat at the bar drinking vodka tonics and smoking Merit cigarettes.
At one point, Peggy returned to her apartment at the **Aspen Leaf** complex on Stover Street, to change clothes. Then, she went back out to enjoy the nearby restaurants. Peggy was last seen alive at approx. 1:30 AM, leaving the Prime Minister, at the corner of *College Avenue and Boardwalk Drive.*
Sadly, Peggy was brutally murdered sometime in the early morning hours of February 11. She was found by a bicyclist, in the 3500 block of Landings Drive, less than 500 yards from the Prime Minister (where she was last seen alive around 1:30 AM).
Peggy's body was dragged from the 3500 block, thru the prairie grass to where it was found. Her purse was still on her shoulder.in the purse were I we 50 items including passport and three packs of cigarettes, as well as over 20 fingerprints. Some were Peggy's; some were her boy friend Matthew's ; others were unknown.
Peggy had been stabbed in the back, and her body had been strangely mutilated.
The condition of the body seemed to indicate that the murderer would have used special equipment, and possibly some surgical skill.
Tammi Witt worked with Hettrick at the Fashion Bar, at The Square, on the corner of College Avenue and Horsetooth Road.
>"We had an appointment that day (11th) to go to lunch, so I called the Fashion Bar to talk to her," Witt said.
But there would be no lunch date on the 11th; Tammi learned that Peggy had been murdered.
Debi Flamio, a close friend of Peggy's who lived in Denver, said it wasn't unusual for Peggy to walk from work to her apartment, and then to walk to the neighborhood bars. The news about Peggy hit her hard.
>"It was especially hard for me. I'm a hairdresser and I was .....asked to do her makeup and hair in her casket."
Linda Wheeler-Holloway is a detective in the Fort Collins Police Dept. who worked the case.
>"Of all the cases I've seen...This is the one that stays with me, that haunts me. Had I known her in life, I probably would have liked her and befriended her. "
Hettrick was described as a fun loving, artistic, and well traveled woman. In Peggy's tidy apartment at the AspenLeaf , shelves were filled with books. Peggy was writing her own novel, a fiction piece about diamond smugglers.
# The Prosecution of Tim Masters
**Tim Masters** A 15-year-old high school sophomore, Tim Masters lived with his father in a trailer near the scene where Peggy was found. His father Clyde told the detectives that Tim had stopped to look at 'something' in the field that morning, on his way to the school bus stop. Finding Peggy's remains, Tim Masters first believed that it was a mannequin, left as a prank. Masters did not report the body to the police, and he continued to walk to the bus stop that morning.
This aroused the suspicion of law enforcement, who pulled "Toothpick" Tim Masters out of his school that day for questioning. Masters allowed police to search his room, where they found several thousand pages of violently misogynistic writings and drawings in his closet, as well as a collection of knives. Lt. Jim Broderick, would track the whereabouts of Tim Masters for 11 years. Broderick seemed convinced that this was Peggy's killer.
After high school graduation, Tim Masters served eight years in the Navy; he was honorably discharged. Masters then worked for Learjet as an aviation mechanic until 1997.
Masters spent 11 years under suspicion.
In 1997, police enlisted the help of J. Reid Meloy, a psychologist specializing in sexual homicide. Meloy concluded that Masters’ artwork (drawings found in his bedroom) implicated him in the crime. Masters was arrested in August 1998; he was found guilty in March 1999, sentenced to life without parole.
Several appeals were mounted on Tim's behalf. These were based on DNA test results which were left on Hettrick's clothing. The tests pointed instead to Hettrick's boyfriend, whom she had seen the night before.
A judge vacated the conviction against Masters, and Tim Masters was released in 2008, after serving a decade in prison.
Tim Masters: The Wrong Man in Prison
Tim Masters spent ten years in a prison cell.
His mattress was like cardboard; sleep was difficult.
Tim has an old farmhouse now, in Greeley, Colorado. Tim has, at times, spoken to the media about his ordeal.
www.5280.com/2011/12/presumed-guilty/
* The county settled with Tim Masters for **US $4.1 million** and the City of Fort Collins settled for **US $5.9 million**, for a total of **$10 million settlement paid to Tim Masters**.
If Not Tim Masters, Then Who Killed Peggy?
*Suspects*
***Richard Hammond***
In 1995, seven years after the murder, Dr. Richard Hammond, a local eye surgeon, was arrested for secretly filming women through fake grates in his downstairs bathroom. Source, Greeley Tribune: Beginning in 1992, Hammond rigged an elaborate videotaping operation for filming women who visited his downstairs bathroom. The machinery was triggered with a light switch. Victims included friends, friends' wives, house sitters, and babysitters. Hammond was arrested in 1995.
**Additionally:**
* Hammond's bedroom in 1987 overlooked the area where Peggy's body was discovered.**
* He was home the morning after the murder, in spite of the fact that he normally had surgery appointments that morning.
Days after the 1995 arrest, free on bond, Hammond **committed suicide in a Denver hotel room**. Police were called to a La Quinta Motor Inn, where Hammond was found to have ended his life with cyanide, strong enough to corrode the skin from his arm bones.
Stalker Incident
**Feb. 1987:** Bartender Terry Sofris, at the Prime Minister, reported a crank caller/stalker, who showed up at the Prime Minister, a few days after Peggy's murder. The physical description matched Richard Hammond. The location matches the bar where Peggy was last seen alive. And Terry Sofris had red hair.... like Peggy.
***Matthew Zoellner*** Zoellner, to quote one article, "liked cold beer and pretty women". In fact, Peggy saw him with another woman that evening, so she declined his offer of a ride home.
Zoellner was several years younger than Peggy, a used car salesman and was an "on again, off again boy friend" of Peggy's.
I could find no further information on this person of interest. Yett his DNA played role in Tim Masters' release; and his fingerprints were apparently found in Peggy's purse.
***Who was Derrick?*** Sharon DeConinck, 26, was staying with Peggy at the time of her murder. Sharon reported that there was another man, in his 20s with long hair called Derrick, who had been pursuing Peggy for a date. They had met at the Laughing Dog Saloon, she said.
Peggy's walking route on the night of Feb. 10/11. TO the left(west) is The Square, where she worked; TO the south is where the Prime Minister Restaurant was located, at College and Broadway; and her apartment complex, the Aspen Leaf, is on the east side of map.
Did Peggy accept a ride from someone on that cold night?
Who killed Peggy Hettrick and left her remains in a field on Landings Drive, in the early morning hours of Feb. 11, 1987?
this happened where I live......