Anthony Taitt was 21 and a Colorado State University sophomore when he was murdered while working an evening shift at a convenience store in Loveland, Colorado, on October 16, 1981. The killing occurred during a robbery that was part of a multi-state crime spree.

Marion Albert Pruett, who was using the name Charles Sonny Pearson while in the Federal Witness Protection Program, is identified as the man who killed Taitt. On the same day Pruett also murdered convenience store clerk Bobbie Jean Robertson in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and, less than an hour after killing Taitt, Pruett robbed another Loveland store and shot James Balderson in the head. Pruett was later convicted in Colorado and received two life sentences for the murders of Anthony Taitt and James Balderson.

The case raises difficult questions about how a person in the witness protection program came to commit further violent crimes across several states. If anyone knew Anthony, where he worked, or was in Loveland that night, please share what you remember.