Episode 445: The Murder of Sid Wells

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Sid Wells was about to start his senior year at the University of Colorado Boulder when he was shot to death in his condo. Initially a potential witness, his roommate, Thayne Smika, quickly became a suspect. But with limited tangible evidence, Smika could not be charged and was released - disappearing shortly after. Smika has remained on the run until this day despite a warrant out for his arrest on charges of first degree murder. Anyone with any information about Smika is asked to call their local FBI office or their nearest American embassy or consulate. There is a $10,000 reward. Click here to join our Patreon. Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group. To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley. And I'm Andrea. And this is Inhuman, a. Happy day. I hope you're having a wonderful day whenever you are listening to this. I am not excited, as we always say, that's not the proper word to use.
0:39.1	But I am happy to be sharing this case today because it is kind of different because it's,
0:45.4	I guess, technically unsolved, but like it's kind of solved, but not for a reason you wouldn't
0:50.4	think. And I actually had no idea about it until recently.
0:54.9	And I feel like a lot of people have recently been talking about it because of some
1:00.6	recent events.
1:02.2	Okay.
1:02.8	It's a super interesting case.
1:04.9	The family has never seen justice.
1:07.4	And it's very possible that the perpetrator can still be caught. So today we're going to be talking
1:13.8	about the murder of Sid Wells. Okay. Sid Lee Sid Wells was born on March 28,
1:21.9	1961 in Norton, Kansas, to Dick and June Wells. He had two brothers, and Sid was an athletic,
1:32.7	smart, young boy. He was a good student. He graduated from high school in Longmont, Colorado,
1:38.5	where his family had moved to, and that led him to the University of Colorado Boulder.
1:44.2	There, he was studying journalism, and he was also a member of the Naval ROTC
1:49.2	with the dream of flying jets for the Navy, just like his dad.
1:54.0	Oh, that's cool.
1:55.2	Yeah.
1:56.0	So in his first year, he met a girl named Shauna, and they began dating.
2:01.4	And he didn't know it at the time, but Shauna is the daughter of actor Robert Redford.
2:06.9	Ah, dun, dun, dun.
2:09.2	And that's kind of why this case has gotten a lot of attention and then recently, because
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