VAIL, Colo.—Eagle County investigators say they haven’t given up on solving the 2002 slaying of a 57-year-old ski resort worker whose body was found about 10 miles south of Vail.
An autopsy showed Melba Jean Ginther died of a gunshot wound in her head. Investigators said she didn’t shoot herself, but no arrests have been made.
Ginther lived alone in Keystone and worked in a Keystone Resort bakery. Her body was found behind a pickup near Camp Hale, a former Army training camp. Investigators say she borrowed the pickup to go shopping.
Sheriff’s Det. Doug Winters says Ginther’s death is the only unsolved slaying in Eagle County that he knows of.
He says she was estranged from her family, paid cash for purchases and didn’t use credit cards or checks.
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Information from: Vail Daily,
