Timothy Wayne Keeling, a 22-year-old White male paramedic from Colorado, was carjacked and kidnapped from a grocery or convenience store parking lot in Denver on September 26, 1991. His body was found the next day along a roadside near Clayton/Grenville in Union County, New Mexico; records list his date of death as September 27, 1991, and he had been shot to death. Keeling was later buried in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Investigators linked the case to a multistate crime spree by escapees Michael Dale St. Clair and Dennis Gene Reese. Court filings and testimony in later proceedings describe the men luring Keeling in Denver, driving him into rural New Mexico, and, according to Reese, handcuffing him before St. Clair led Keeling away and two gunshots were heard. Keeling’s pickup was recovered burned in Kentucky as part of the trail of stolen vehicles and arson tied to the pair.

For years the New Mexico homicide remained uncharged while St. Clair and Reese faced prosecutions in other states. In 2012 New Mexico authorities obtained indictments charging both men with capital murder and kidnapping in Keeling’s death and moved to extradite them.

Did anyone who lived in Denver or traveled the Clayton/Grenville area in late September 1991 see Keeling’s pickup or notice anything unusual that night?