On November 9, 1985, 36-year-old David Michael Tyler was beaten to death and his body found the next day in the back of a utility trailer parked near his business, the Automatic Transmission Exchange, in the 1400 block of Main Avenue in Durango, Colorado. A passenger on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad spotted the trailer and alerted authorities. Investigators found Tyler’s hands bound behind his back, fragments of skull inside the shop, and a derogatory slur scrawled on a wall in blood.

During the initial investigation police released a composite sketch of a man seen talking with Tyler before the killing, but that lead did not produce an arrest. In 1990 a woman provided a detailed tip naming three local men she said were involved in the cocaine scene and saying one had been in a sexual relationship with Tyler. Despite tips and theories over the years, no arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Durango at the time remember activity around the 1400 block of Main Avenue or conversations involving Tyler in late 1985?