ALONELY.
ALONELY. PHILLIPS WAS ONCE RESCUED DURING A SNOWSTORM FROM GONELLA
PAST.
NOW IN A STRANGE TURN
OF EVENTS, HE IS NOW FACING
CHARGES IN TWO COLORADO COLD
CASES ON THAT VERY SAME NIGHT
OUR WANTS TO KNOW INVESTIGATORS
HAVE BEEN DIVING INTO THIS TRUE
CRIME STORY.
MATT JAYLO JOINS US NOW.
GOOD MORNING, MATT.
THIS IS SUCH A CRAZY STORY.
SO INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THAT
PHILLIPS WAS RESCUED IN THIS
CRAZY SNOW STORM JUST HOURS
AFTER HE DUMPED THE BODIES
OF THESE TWO WOMEN.
THAT'S RIGHT IN ITS FIRST VERY
IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT AS YOU
HAVE THAT THESE ARE JUST
ACCUSATIONS AT THIS POINT HE'S
NOT BEING TRIED.
HIS PRELIMINARY HEARING IS NOW
SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 13TH
AND JUST CHARGED AT THIS POINT
WITH MURDER AND KIDNAPING.
YES.
ON JANUARY 6TH, 1982, TWO YOUNG
WOMEN THAT BARBARA OBERHOLTZER
DISAPPEARED FROM BRECKENRIDGE.
THEY WERE APPARENTLY HIKING
HITCHHIKING ON THEIR WAY HOME.
THEY BOTH DISAPPEARED THAT DAY.
THEIR BODIES WERE FOUND ONE DAY
AND SIX MONTHS LATER ANOTHER
PERSON BELONGINGS SCATTERED ALL
OVER THE PLACE.
WHAT WE DO KNOW ALSO IS THAT A
HOURS AFTER THEY DISAPPEARED,
ALLEN PHILLIPS WAS RESCUED FROM
THE TOP WHEN IT WILL PASS.
BUT THIS WAS NOT JUST YOUR
TYPICAL RESCUE.
IF THERE IS SUCH A YOU GET
STRANDED AT THE TOP OF THE PATH
BASICALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A
BLIZZARD STUCK IN A PICKUP
TRUCK BY SENATORS PICKUP TRUCK
AT THE TOP OF PASS IT WAS
20 BELOW ZERO AND HE WAS VERY
MUCH IN DANGER OF FREEZING TO
DEATH.
SO IN A LAST DITCH ATTEMPT TO
SAVE HIS LIFE, HE'S FLASHING
S.O.S. SIGNAL WITH HIS
HEADLIGHTS AND IT JUST SO
HAPPENS THAT HIS CAR WAS
POINTED UP WAS ON AN INCLINE AT
THE TIME AND AT THAT EXACT
MOMENT A PLANE UNITED FLIGHT
HEADED TO DENVER TO CALIFORNIA
PAST QUINELLA PASS ON THAT
PLANE WAS THE JEFFERSON COUNTY
SHERIFF.
SO OBVIOUSLY AS HAPPENED TO
RECOGNIZE IT AS AN S.O.S. HE
TOLD THE FLIGHT CREW THEY
RADIOED AND A RESCUE WAS
LAUNCHED AND ABOUT 20 MINUTES
LATER ALAN PHILLIPS WAS
RESCUED.
THE RESCUER WHO WE INTERVIEWED
RECENTLY HAD NO IDEA THAT
PHILLIPS MAY HAVE BEEN
RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THOSE TWO
WOMEN JUST EARLIER THAT DAY AND
IT WASN'T FOUND OUT.
BUT THESE EVENTS ARE CONNECTED
TO THIRTY NINE YEARS LATER WHEN
PHILLIPS WAS ARRESTED BACK IN
FEBRUARY.
OH, THAT GIVES ME CHILLS.
I MEAN YEAH, HE GOT SO LUCKY TO
BE RESCUED THAT NIGHT.
DID HE KNOW THESE TWO WOMEN DID
THE WOMEN KNOW EACH OTHER?
WAS THERE ANY CONNECTION?
APPARENTLY NOT.
SHE DID NOT.
INVESTIGATORS TELL ME THAT HE
DID NOT KNOW THE VICTIMS AND
THE VICTIMS APPARENTLY DID NOT
KNOW EACH OTHER.
ONE WAS 22 YEARS OLD.
ONE TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD.
THEY WERE BOTH WORKING AT
BRECKENRIDGE AT THE TIME
HITCHHIKING TO THEIR TO THEIR
SEPARATE HOME.
SO IT DOES NOT APPEAR THAT
THERE WAS ANY CONNECTION
BETWEEN THE VICTIMS FROM
THE VICTIM VICTIMS TO PHILLIPS.
IT SHOULD ALSO BE POINTED OUT
THAT THE AFFIDAVIT IN THE CASE
IS STILL SEALED AND NEITHER
INVESTIGATORS NOR PROSECUTORS
ARE TALKING ALL THAT MUCH SO WE
HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD
KNOW A LOT MORE ABOUT THE CASE
IN A FEW MONTHS.
THE AFFIDAVIT SEALED IN
PRELIMINARY HEARING IS HELD.
I AM TOLD THAT THERE WAS A LOT
MORE ABOUT THIS STORY THAT
SHOULD FASCINATE OUR VIEWERS.
DO WE KNOW MAYBE WE DON'T KNOW
BECAUSE IT'S SEALED BUT DO WE
KNOW OF A MOTIVE?
IS THIS A ROBBERY?
WAS THIS AN ASSAULT?
WHAT DO WE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
THAT SO FAR AT THIS POINT HE'S
BEEN CHARGED WITH KIDNAPING,
MURDER AND ASSAULT.
THERE WAS DNA FOUND AT AT LEAST
ONE OF THE CRIME SCENES.
THAT'S HOW THE CASE WAS SOLVED
ULTIMATELY.
BUT WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT
DNA THEY RECOVERED APPARENTLY
FROM PHILLIPS OBVIOUSLY KNEW
EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF DNA SAMPLE
THE GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE A
BETTER IDEA OF MOTIVE.
BUT AT THIS POINT WE JUST DON'T
KNOW.
YEAH, THAT WAS GOING TO BE
MY NEXT QUESTION IS HOW
I CAUGHT UP WITH PHILLIPS ALL
THESE YEARS LATER DNA YOU WERE
JUST SAYING HAVE WE TALKED TO
THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES AT ALL?
WE HAVE REACHED OUT AND WE HAVE
NOT SO FAR AT THE TIME OF HIS
ARREST BACK IN FEBRUARY WE WERE
TOLD BY THE SHERIFF'S
DEPARTMENT WHICH LED
THE INVESTIGATION THAT
THE FAMILIES WERE SIMPLY TOO
UPSET BY THE ARREST.
BY THE WAY BUT UPSET BY
THE ARREST BECAUSE IT CONJURED
ALL THESE POWERFUL DISTURBING
FEELINGS.
SO THEY WERE TRYING TO DISTURB
TO SET UP TIME TO TALK TO US .
BUT WE HAVE REACHED OUT AGAIN
AND WE'RE HOPING TO TALK THEM
SOMETIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
YEAH, ALL THESE YEARS LATER,
ALL OF IT COMING BACK UP TO
THE SURFACE.
IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'LL KNOW A LOT
MORE IF AND WHEN THE AFFIDAVIT
IS UNSEALED.
BUT JUST A CRAZY TWIST IN THIS