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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced a reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in a decades-old murder case centered in Boulder, Colorado. On July 31, 2026, the FBI released an aged-up photograph of the suspect, providing the public with a more current visual representation of what the i…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Boulder Police Department have jointly released new age-progression images of Thayne Alan Smika, a suspect in the 1983 murder of Sidney Lee Wells. Wells, a 22-year-old journalism student at the University of Colorado Boulder, was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartm…
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The FBI and the Boulder Police Department have jointly released new age-progressed images of Thayne Alan Smika, a fugitive wanted for the 1983 murder of his roommate, Sidney Lee Wells. Smika, who was 24 years old at the time of the crime, is now approximately 67 years old. The incident occurred on August 1, 1983, in B…