SOLVED: The Coors Brewery Murder 1
Murder: True Crime Stories
Crime House
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In 1960, Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company, left his Colorado ranch for work and vanished without a trace. This episode traces the Coors family’s rise from humble immigrant beginnings to beer empire royalty, before the winter morning that turned their legacy into a headline-making mystery. What followed was one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Carter Roy here. |
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| 0:41.0 | New episodes out every Tuesday. This is Crime House. |
| 0:57.0 | We all have an origin story, a person, a place, or even an idea that shaped us. |
| 1:07.0 | For Adolph Cors, that origin story began in the late 1800s in Germany with a bottle of beer. |
| 1:14.8 | From that moment onwards, he was determined to open his own brewery. |
| 1:20.5 | But he didn't think Germany was the place to do it. |
| 1:23.8 | In search of more opportunities, he stowed away on a ship bound for America. He arrived with |
| 1:30.2 | nothing more than a dream and a whole lot of grit. Three generations later, that dream had |
| 1:37.2 | flourished into a multi-million dollar empire. By then, the Corps' name, and the man who started it, was known around the globe. |
| 1:47.2 | The company had weathered countless storms from prohibition to two world wars. Through it all, |
| 1:53.8 | the Corps' family stood tall, seemingly untouchable, until 1960. |
| 2:07.1 | When Adolf Coors, the third, was abducted near his home in Morrison, Colorado. |
| 2:10.5 | It was a twist that no one saw coming. |
| 2:15.3 | And one that rewrote the Coors family story forever. |
| 2:26.8 | People's lives are like a story. |
| 2:29.2 | There's a beginning, a middle, and an end. |
| 2:32.2 | But you don't always know which part you're on. |
| 2:36.7 | Sometimes the final chapter arrives far too soon, and we don't always get to know the real ending |
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