CO CO - Fremont Co., WhtMale UP14158, 55-70, gray hair, blue eyes, Aug'81

NamUs UP # 14158




WARNING: POSTMORTEM PHOTO AT LINK
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/14158

Unidentified White Male
Found August 27, 1981 in Fremont County Colorado

Vital Stats
Age 55 - 70 years
Weight (pounds) 225 pounds
Height (inches) 72 inches (6 feet 0 inches)
Hair Color: Grey or Partially Grey
Eyes: Pale Blue


Condition
Body Parts Inventory: All Parts Recovered
Body condition: Recognizable Face

Clothing and Accessories
Clothing on Body: Tee shirt, Hart, Schaffner and Marx Slacks, nylon shorts and socks.
Jewelry: Wrist watch not with body.

Circumstances of death
Unidentified man found deceased in Fremont County Campground.

Identifiers
Fingerprints: Fingerprint information is currently not available

Dentals: Dental information / charting is available and will be entered later

DNA: Samples submitted - Tests not complete

Despite the difference in eye color, i think this is a match.



Gordon Mason

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/mason_gordon.html
WARNING: POSTMORTEM PHOTO AT LINK
https://identifyus.org/en/cases/14158

Wow Carl, I think you've done it again. He looks just like the PM.

Looks like NamUs created a casefile for Gordon Mason. So obviously, they are working on this possible match.

https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/31123/0

Two persons of interest named in 1981 Fremont County murder

http://www.koaa.com/story/30980544/two-persons-of-interest-named-in-1981-fremont-county-murder

Since our last report new leads have surfaced. Detective King says they believe he was killed in the Pueblo area before his body was dumped almost an hour away.

And they now have two persons of interest in the case. It's the closest they've been to solving the murder in three decades.

"There was a calotype in the file from the 1980's from another agency that led me to these individuals," he said. "They are from out of state and they are still out of state. We have spoken to them, they have been cooperative to an extent."

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I left a message with the detective on this case to make sure he got my submission. He said he had not heard about it because the coroner's office handles all the tips regarding possible matches. But he checked with them and they say that the dental comparison on Gordon Mason came up negative.

Nevertheless, he says that he is going to also request a fingerprint and DNA comparison to make sure that the dental rule-out was not in error.

He was very happy to see that this case is getting attention, and thanked me for my interest.

A calotype is made using an old-style photography process. Seems like an odd thing to find in a criminal investigation file.

Colorado Cold Cases: Female duo lured man to stabbing death in Canon City

King recently flew to Texas to interview a person of interest in the case, Rosalinda Crispin, who is serving a 65-year-old prison term after being convicted of murdering Maximo Linares Limon in 1985.

Crispin was 26 at the time of John Doe’s murder.

Crispin and another person-of-interest, Rita Valadez, are believed to be the last persons to see the man at a popular nightclub South of Santa Fe Street in Pueblo. Valadez died in 2003.

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One version of what happened is that Valadez and Crispin acknowledged being inside the Caprice, even driving it at one point. That is, after John Doe took off running.

But Crispin said she has no idea what happened to John Doe. The last time she saw him, he was running through a field.

King said it is possible that someone discovered the body near the Bengay bar and took it to Fremont County to avoid bad publicity.

King said he has reason to believe that the murder victim was from the Denver area and is hoping that publicizing the drawing of the man could generate tips about his identity.

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Very surprised to see Gordon Mason ruled out. Thought he was pretty much spot on.

Updated Namus link. Caution, comes up with postmortem photo, but it's not particularly bad or anything.

Unidentified Person Case

Gordon Mason is still the only ruleout.

Benjamin Gray? The Lost & The Found

Here is a good connection. Charles Catlett went missing 1 week before this John Doe was found, and his car was found only 150 miles away from this Doe in Denver. He also had a gold watch they mention was missing. Descriptions match and visually very similar.
http://charleyproject.org/case/charles-catlett
https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/4073

No new exclusions.

Did anybody submit Catlett or Gray?

carbuff said:

No new exclusions.

Did anybody submit Catlett or Gray?

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No I didn't....have to look into it again...it has been so long....

There is some new info in this case it seems

Fremont County John Doe was a man found murdered in Colorado. His murder was solved but the decedent remains unidentified.

Case
The decedent was found wrapped in plastic in a campground near Cañon City. He had been stabbed 19 times in the stomach, chest, back, and left arm. It is believed he was killed elsewhere and that he was dumped in the campground.

The decedent is believed to have been a well-known figure in the Pueblo community. He was known to wear expensive clothing and he was possibly a collector of silver dollars. On the night of his death, he had reportedly been flashing a large sum of money at the Paddy's Restaurant And Lounge, an illegal gambling spot, which he had been known to frequent. He had been buying drinks for Rita Valdez, who is now deceased. The circumstances of what transpired are unclear, but it is believed Rita and her girlfriend, Rosalinda Crispin, lured the victim to an unspecified location, stabbed him, and took his maroon colored 1981 Chevrolet Caprice. Police cannot rule out that someone else found his body at the bar and dumped it in the campground to avoid bad publicity.

Information linking Rosalinda to the crime had been discovered in 1985, after her friend told police that she had previously described the murder. Despite this evidence, it was not confirmed until 2016, after the detective of the case found documents regarding the witness statements.

Rosalinda, who is serving a 65 year prison sentence for a similar murder, denies knowing what happened to the decedent, and claims that she last saw him running for his life. However, witnesses stated that the two had been seen driving the decedent's car without him being present. Rosalinda has not been officially charged with the murder.

The victim is believed to be from Denver, and was likely in his mid-fifties when he died.

Fremont County John Doe

Whoa. That's a lot of new information. Wowzers. One of the earlier articles mentioned it but not nearly that much detail.

Catlett's car was found in Denver two weeks after he disappeared from his home in Louisiana.