Colorado 1980 Cold Case Solved — She Got Off the Bus. She Never Made It Home
In 1980, 21-year-old Helene Pruszynski arrived in Colorado to pursue the journalism career she'd dreamed about. After getting off her usual bus one evening, she never made it home. For the next four decades, her family waited for an answer.
Investigators had preserved evidence from the original case, but the technology needed to use it didn't exist yet. Years later, genetic genealogy created a new path into the investigation — eventually leading detectives to a man living under a different name.
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedThis is the story of Helene Pruszynski, a journalism intern murdered in Colorado in 1980. The case remained cold for 40 years until the emergence of investigative genetic genealogy allowed detectives to link preserved crime scene evidence to Curtis Allen White, who had been hiding in Florida under the alias James Curtis Clanton.