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Who murdered Dellmer Betts in 1986?
On a Sunday morning in late April of 1986, the quiet landscape of Jefferson County, Colorado, offered a grim discovery to a group of hikers. There, in a drainage ditch along Highway 6, lay the body of a young man, later identified as 29-year-old Dellmer Betts. A white male, Betts was found roughly four and a half miles west of Highway 58, his life abruptly ended in what investigators would classify as a homicide. At the time of his death, he was dressed in blue jeans, a blue T-shirt, and a pair ...Read More
On a Sunday morning in late April of 1986, the quiet landscape of Jefferson County, Colorado, offered a grim discovery to a group of hikers. There, in a drainage ditch along Highway 6, lay the body of a young man, later identified as 29-year-old Dellmer Betts. A white male, Betts was found roughly four and a half miles west of Highway 58, his life abruptly ended in what investigators would classify as a homicide. At the time of his death, he was dressed in blue jeans, a blue T-shirt, and a pair ...Read More
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Dellmer Betts
October 28, 2022
Male
Caucasian / White
Jefferson County
CO
1986-04-27
1986-04-25
1986-04-27
29
Dellmer
Betts
11/14/2025
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Forum Posts (2)
Has anyone else been curious about the missing briefcase in Dellmer Betts' case? It seems odd that i... ...Read More
02/07/2024
02/07/2024
Does anyone find it strange that Dellmer Betts' brown briefcase was the only thing missing when his ... ...Read More
11/06/2023
11/06/2023
