On the morning of August 16, 1976, Richard Gary Malin, 35, was found dead by his wife at about 8:30 a.m. His body was inside the front door of the family home on Palomino Drive in Evergreen, Colorado. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office determined Malin had been shot and ruled the death a homicide.

The initial investigation did not produce arrests, and the case went cold. Decades later it remains listed as unsolved by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation; no suspects have been publicly identified and the motive has not been released. Very few details about Malin’s life or the circumstances before the shooting are available.

Anyone who knew Richard Malin or who has information about what happened on Palomino Drive that August morning is asked to come forward.