James S. Judge Jr., 26, and his wife Jeanette Margene Davis Judge, 23, were shot to death on August 9, 1978, near Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The couple were newlyweds when they were slain during a multi-state crime spree by a group of escaped Arizona convicts led by Gary Tison, his sons, and fellow inmate Randy Greenawalt.

The escape began July 30, 1978, and the fugitives killed another family in Arizona before reaching Colorado. The Judges were reported missing; their bodies were recovered in November 1978 at a remote campsite, and their van had been stolen by the gang. A shootout at an Arizona roadblock on August 11, 1978, left one Tison son dead and led to the capture of Greenawalt and two Tison brothers; Gary Tison later was found dead from exposure.

Greenawalt was convicted and ultimately executed in 1997; he confessed to killing a man in Colorado and the gang’s vehicle was linked to the Judges, but the Colorado murders of James and Jeanette Judge were never prosecuted. Does anyone have memories or information about the Judges, their movements in early August 1978, or that remote campsite?