Shawny Lee Hatch Smith was a 32-year-old white woman from Cheyenne, Wyoming, whose life was cut short on a frozen stretch of the Colorado–Wyoming border in early February 2003. In the days before her death she was juggling work and motherhood, raising a young son and daughter while trying, as her sister would later say, to “live the American dream.” On the morning of February 8, 2003, a property owner walking his land just off U.S. Route 85 in rural Weld County, Colorado, barely a quarter
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