The Longmont community lost a 94-year-old retired librarian, Orma B. Smith, in the summer of 1982 when she was found murdered in or near her apartment area at Big Elk Creek Meadows. Her body was discovered the following day, and the case initially produced no arrest; the homicide went cold for many years.

A neighbor, John Agrue, surfaced early as a person of interest but was not charged with Smith’s murder at the time. Agrue was later convicted and imprisoned for an attempted abduction at knifepoint on the University of Colorado Boulder campus, a separate violent crime. In 2010 DNA from the Smith investigation was conclusively linked to Agrue, who had died in 2009, bringing a posthumous identification of her killer.

What details about Orma Smith’s last day or the crime scene might still help anyone who remembers that summer come forward with information?