The day before a long-sought arrest warrant in the high-profile 1983 slaying of Sid Wells was unsealed, Boulder police simultaneously called six relatives of prime suspect Thayne Smika to ask whether they had any information on the 52-year-old’s whereabouts, according to newly released court records.
Smika’s family members were informed at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12 that authorities had obtained a warrant to arrest Smika on suspicion of first-degree murder, and all of them — except his mother — denied knowing anything about where Smika might be hiding, according to police.
Darlene Smika — the mother of the missing suspect, who vanished in 1986 — refused to speak with detectives, police reported. When asked by he Camera on Wednesday whether she knows where her son is, she said, “Would I tell you?”
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