Who murdered Helen Burton in Littleton, CO in 1982? In the summer of 1982, a day of play in a Littleton, Colorado park took a dark turn when a father and his child made a grim discovery. On July 31, the nude body of 59-year-old Helen Burton was found in the park located on Deer Creek Canyon Road. The discovery marked a sorrowful end to a search that began weeks earlier.
Helen had been reported missing from Denver on July 10, 1982. The last time she was seen was at a bus stop at 5:55 in the morning.
She was expected at work that day, but she never arrived and never boarded the bus. Her disappearance remained a mystery until her body was found.
The case of Helen Burton's death is classified as a homicide. To this day, the investigation into who was responsible for her death remains an open and unsolved cold case. There have been no arrests, and no suspects have been publicly identified. The circumstances surrounding her final days and the events that led to her death are still unknown.
