A property dispute in rural Westcliffe, Colorado, ended in deadly violence on November 20, 2023. Clark, allegedly confronted a surveyor who was working to mark property lines related to an easement disagreement. Two nearby residents, Rob Geers, 63, and his wife Beth Wade, 73, were also killed in the attack.

James’s wife, Patty Daulton, was critically injured in the same incident but was able to call 911 and reported that she believed her husband and the two neighbors had been fatally wounded. The surveyor escaped and alerted authorities. A manhunt followed; Clark and his girlfriend, Nancy Medina-Kochis, were located at a Walmart in Salida, fled the state, and were arrested near Albuquerque on November 21, 2023. Clark faces multiple charges, including three counts of first-degree murder, and Medina-Kochis was charged as an accessory.

Did anyone in the Westcliffe area witness the surveyor or the confrontation that afternoon?