Roger Dean Part 1 of 2

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Episode 154 Roger Dean Part 1 of 2

DNA: ID is back after summer hiatus with a doozy of a case! On Thursday, November 21^st, 1985, Roger Dean was seen by neighbors drinking his morning coffee in his garage. The next thing they knew, Roger way lying in the cul de sac, shot to death. His hysterical wife told a terrifying tale of a masked gunman, restraints, demands, a fight, gunshots. After the dust settled, Roger's wife and daughter ended up in police crosshairs. They would be re-traumatized five years later when the killer resurfaced, trying to extort money from the grieving widow. Even though witnesses had seen the gunman, and the FBI chased the extortionist all over Denver, he eluded authorities, and the case went cold. But, the gunman had made a crucial mistake, leaving behind evidence that decades later would be used by a savvy law enforcement genealogist to identify him at long last.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
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0:05.4	Be sure to check out some of the other great true crime podcasts from this network, including
0:10.2	The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons, Scene of the Crime, Zodiac speaking, Beyond Bizarr True Crime,
0:18.3	Campus Killings, and Killer Communications.
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0:27.3	Subscribe where you're listening to this podcast so you don't miss an episode. The
0:40.3	The The It was 1985.
1:24.6	At 7.34 a.m. bright and early on the morning of Thursday, November 21st,
1:30.5	multiple 911 calls came in to the Douglas County, Colorado Sheriff's Office.
1:35.8	The callers were all residents of the upscale lone tree subdivision in Littleton.
1:40.7	Various callers breathlessly reported gunshots, a struggle of running man, a fallen neighbor.
1:46.2	Help could not get there fast enough.
1:50.0	Deputies sped to the neighborhood, arriving within minutes.
1:53.5	Neighbors had gathered in the street and driveway of 8-2-66 Big Horn Court.
1:58.6	A woman in a bathroom was crying and bent over a bleeding man lying in the
2:02.5	cul-de-sac at the base of the driveway of the home. A neighbor comforting her heard her say,
2:08.1	Will it never end? Douglas County Sheriff's Captain Michael Acri was the first to reach the fallen
2:14.2	man, removing a blanket that someone had put over him and checking him for a pulse.
2:18.9	There was none. The dead man had visible bullet holes to his chest and abdomen,
2:23.8	and his right wrist had a white rope tied around it, the rope snaking on the street.
2:28.9	The crying woman said she was DJ and she was the man's wife. His name was Roger Dean. EMTs from Castlewood Fire
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