On the evening of October 6, 1979, gunshots brought police to the 1800 block of Clarkson Street in Denver, where 54-year-old Fred L. Rease was found fatally shot inside his vehicle. Rease was Black, owned a liquor store in downtown Denver, and worked for the United States Post Office, roles that tied him to the city’s daily life.

The Denver Police Department investigated at the scene and canvassed neighbors, but no suspect was identified and no arrests were ever made. The case remains an open cold homicide in the department’s files.

Did anyone in the community know Fred Rease, his routines, or notice anything unusual in that neighborhood around October 6, 1979?