Ronald Lewis Defond

Death by Force

On a late afternoon in March of 1980, the grim discovery of two young boys forever altered the sense of security in their Adams County community. A passerby happened upon the bodies of 7-year-old Ronald Lewis Defond, a White male, and his 10-year-old friend, Steven Wicks, lying side by side in a field near Tower Road in Aurora, Colorado. The tranquility of the open space was shattered by the reality that both boys had been shot to death.

The date was March 8, 1980, a day that marked the b ...Read More

Websleuths: CO - CO - Steven Wicks, 10 & Ronald Defond, 7, Both Shot, Aurora, 8 Mar 1980

Colorado Cold Case Files - Case Detail: Steven Wicks

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