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48 hours is investigating two Cold Case murders near a popular Colorado ski resort Annette shinney and Bobby Joe
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oberholtzer were both killed on the same night in 1982 just outside Breckenridge
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now their cases remained a mystery for almost four decades in her first investigation for 48 hours CBS News
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correspondent Natalie Morales reports on what led investigators to the Killer on the night of January 6 1982 an
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airline passenger flying above this mountain pass outside of Breckenridge Colorado noticed a series of flashing
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lights coming from below that look like an SOS a call for help it came from the driver of a truck stranded in a raging
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snowstorm Dave Montoya a local fire chief at the time went to the location after the pilot radioed down the
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coordinates what were you thinking as you're driving who does that I thought it was a tourist what Montoya didn't
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know then was that he was about to rescue a man who had just murdered these two young women Bobby Joe oberholtzer
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and Annette schnee it would take investigators nearly 40 years to make that connection we Muse about whether or
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not we were going to die before we solved this case back in January 1982 all investigators knew was that Annette
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schnee was last seen around 4 45 in the afternoon Bobby Joe disappeared hours later says
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then Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Jim Hartke Bobby Joe oberholtzer was last seen in Breckenridge at about 7
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30 in the evening the following morning Bobby Joe's body was found a bloody glove lay in the snow near her
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belongings Annette's remains were discovered six months later about 10 miles away but in a strange twist it
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would be these orange booty socks that linked the cases one of the socks was found on Annette schnee's left foot and
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the other was recovered near Bobby Joe oberholzer's body this is amazing this ties the cases together but it wasn't
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until nearly four decades after de Montoya saved that stranded motorist that DNA revealed the identity of the
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killer as Alan Lee Phillips everything catches up you know get away with anything for forever
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you don't get away with everything for anything forever that's true Natalie Morales joins us now good morning to you
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Natalie good morning a lot of little twist in this because the night of the murders we're going to learn the local
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Fire Chief unknowingly helped the Killer and then it turns out that they knew each other they explained well they in
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fact Dave Montoya went up there thinking as he said I thought it was going to rescue a tourist he gets up there he
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realizes huh this guy is the guy I work with in the mines Alan Phillips so he Alan Phillips that day said he had been
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drinking too much wanted to avoid the police on the highway so he decided to take the mountain pass and that's where
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he got stuck and because he knew him he thought oh I know Alan's okay yeah and he did report though what happened and
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you know rescuing him and that actually made local news there so they had a record of him being saved and rescued on
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that very night that these two young women disappeared DNA evidence was crucial where'd they get it from yeah
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the DNA was found on the belongings of Bobby Joe it was near her belongings love and a bloody tissue some of the DNA
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was hers of course but the other DNA they didn't have a match and the database didn't exist back then CODIS
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was not around at the time until later in the 90s they ran it through the CODIS database that's the criminal DNA
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database there were no matches there it took only in the last two years where they've created this ancestry DNA type
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testing genetic genealogy that they were able to run the DNA and they came back with two names and one of the guys was
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still living there in Breckenridge or not far from Breckenridge Colorado Natalie Morales it's good to see you and
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have you in studio thank you so much you can see Natalie's report last seen in Breckenridge on 48 hours tomorrow night
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at 10 9 Central right here on CBS and on Paramount Plus