Michael Lyle Faast was 31 and a Colorado Springs resident when he was killed on the evening of February 16, 1979. He had gone to help a coworker, Laurie Firth, and was sitting in a pickup truck she had borrowed when her ex-boyfriend, Ronnie Ball, approached. Ball allegedly aimed a gun at Faast’s head and fired one shot. The truck then lurched forward, struck a nearby building and rolled to a stop; Faast was mortally wounded and the incident was initially reported as a car accident before investigators determined it was a homicide.

Laurie Firth identified Ball as the shooter. Ball, a Captain in the Air Force stationed at NORAD, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. At trial his attorneys argued temporary insanity; the jury found him guilty but insane and he was committed to the Colorado State Hospital for treatment rather than to prison.

Did anyone in Colorado Springs at the time have information about Ball’s movements that night or about Michael Faast’s last known plans?