The Trail Went Cold – Episode 128 – Roger Dean

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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November 21, 1985. Littleton, Colorado. A masked gunman enters the home of 51-year old businessman Roger Dean and forces him to tie up and blindfold his wife, D.J.. After an apparent dispute over money, the gunman fatally shoots Roger and flees the scene, but investigators find evidence to suggest that Roger may have hired the […]

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0:00.0	21st, 1985.
0:03.6	Littleton, Colorado.
0:05.9	A mass gunman enters the home of 51-year-old businessman Roger Dean and forces him to tie
0:10.8	up his wife, DJ.
0:13.0	After an apparent dispute over money, the gunman fatally shoots Roger and flees the scene,
0:17.9	but investigators find evidence to suggest that Roger hired the intruder himself in a
0:22.3	failed attempt at a kidnapping scheme.
0:24.8	Nearly five years later, DJ receives an anonymous letter from a man claiming to be Roger's
0:29.2	killer.
0:30.2	We threatens to murder her daughter, unless she pays him $100,000.
0:34.8	Even though DJ drops off the money at a specified location, it is never picked up, and the
0:39.6	perpetrator remains unidentified.
0:42.6	After that, the trail went cold.
0:59.2	Hello, everyone, and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:23.7	I'm your host Robin Warder, and we've got a classic unsolved mysteries case to cover
1:28.0	this week.
1:29.0	The 1985 murder of Roger Dean.
1:32.2	This is the bizarre story of a businessman who was killed in his own home by a mass gunman
1:36.8	in what appeared to be a botched robbery.
1:39.3	The crime took place while Roger's wife, DJ, was tied up in the bedroom, but the trauma
1:43.8	would only get worse for her years later when she received an anonymous extortion letter
1:48.1	from the alleged killer who threatened to kill her daughter if DJ did not pay him a large
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