https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w By: Talia Hassell en-us 2022-01-25 02:48:24 UTC 2026-03-15 05:31:21 UTC hello@padlet.com taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010344426 Adolph Coors III, the grandson of the Coors’ founder and chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery, was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death. He had disappeared while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home and left behind his hat and car.]]> 2022-01-25 04:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010344426 taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010345874 The next day,  FBI agents recovered a letter in the Morrison post office, addressed to Coors' wife, Mary. It demanded $500,000, in tens and twenties, and instructed her to advertise a tractor for sale in the  Denver Post, and then to wait for the call. With little to go on, the FBI focused on a few slim clues. Most of the attention was aimed at the canary yellow Mercury.]]> 2022-01-25 04:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010345874 taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010348381 One man remembered that the license plate had an "AT" and the numerals "62." Based on that one tidbit, FBI agents traced the car to Denver resident  Walter Osborne, who had, until recently, been working in a paint factory. A car was found on fire in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The gasoline-fueled fire had been deliberately set, but it couldn’t destroy the serial number imprinted on the engine. The car was traced back to Osborne, whose yellow Mercury had been spotted by many witnesses in the area of the crime in the days leading up to the abduction.]]> 2022-01-25 04:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010348381 taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010351960 Further investigation matched the fingerprint from Osborne's driver's license application to that of a convicted murderer who had escaped from a California prison five years earlier —  Joseph Corbett, Jr.  31. Born in Seattle, the son of a newspaper editor and his wife, Corbett had an average upbringing and an above-average IQ. Corbett shot a hitchhiker in the head, and was sent to prison for life. The sentence was cut short in 1955, when Corbett escaped from a minimum-security cell in Chino. Within the year, a man calling himself Walter Osborne showed up in Denver, and on March 30th, Corbett appeared on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List.]]> 2022-01-25 04:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010351960 taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010353503 Dirt from the car was ultimately traced back to the area where Coors was grabbed and taken hostage. By examining dirt on the undercarriage, investigators drew a map of the car's journey. There were four layers. One contained dirt and particles matching those in the Atlantic City dump. But the others contained pink feldspar and granite, the kind of rocks and minerals found at the site where Coors' body had been found and on the roads around the Coors ranch.]]> 2022-01-25 04:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010353503 taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010356692 The FBI distributed 1.5 million posters with Corbett’s picture and then tracked him all the way across Canada, from Toronto to Vancouver, where he was finally apprehended. On March 29, 1961, the jury found Corbett guilty. Although sentenced to life, Corbett, a model prisoner, was paroled in December 1980. He took a job in Denver as a truck driver for the  Salvation Army , and lived quietly, speaking rarely of the case.]]> 2022-01-25 05:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010356692 taliahassell5849 https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010361500 2022-01-25 05:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/taliahassell5849/oharql6g6elkik7w/wish/2010361500