On August 14, 1975, James M. Beetle Bailey, 32, was riding his motorcycle west on Interstate 80 near the Highway 117 overpass by Colfax, Iowa, with two fellow Cleveland Hells Angels members, Paul Chip Philemon, 27, and Richard Vesey, 31. A burst of gunfire struck Bailey in the neck, a single fatal wound that caused him to lose control and suffer abrasions from scraping the pavement. Vesey was wounded in the arm; Philemon was uninjured in the attack itself.

Investigators from the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation concluded the shots were likely fired by two people, one on the embankment beneath the overpass and one from the overpass, where two spent shotgun shells were later found. The attack was not definitively classified as targeted or random. Bailey served as the chapter treasurer and reportedly carried receipts he had collected alleging financial misconduct by other members, a detail that investigators and others considered a possible motive. No arrests were ever made in Bailey’s killing.

Does anyone have information about that Colfax ambush or the receipts Bailey reportedly carried?