A man convicted of killing two women who disappeared near Breckenridge nearly 40 years ago was sentenced to two terms of life in prison after the women’s relatives called for the maximum punishment for the slayings that forever changed their families.
DENVER — A man convicted of killing two women who disappeared near a Colorado ski resort town nearly 40 years ago after DNA testing identified him as a suspect was sentenced on Monday to two terms of life in prison after the women’s relatives called for the maximum punishment for the slayings that forever changed their families.
Friends and family discovered Oberholtzer’s body the next day in a snow drift on the summit of 11,542-foot Hoosier Pass, near Breckenridge. Schnee’s body was discovered six months later, fully clothed, by a boy fishing in a creek in rural Park County. Both women had been shot. Phillips, a miner and automobile mechanic, was arrested last year in Dumont, a small mountain town about an hour’s drive away from Breckenridge, after living in the area for the past four decades. He plans to appeal his conviction, claiming the DNA evidence used against him was contaminated and mishandled.
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