CHEERLEADER MARILEE BURT'S 1970 MURDER STILL COLD

IT WAS A bitterly cold winter night, February 26, 1970, when 15-year-old Marilee Ruth Burt finished cheerleading at a basketball game at Goddard Middle School in Arapahoe County, Colorado.  Marilee lived just a short distance away from the school so when her ride home didn’t arrive she chose to walk, rather than wait in the cold evening air. It was a fateful decision – one that would end in her gruesome death. Marilee was last sent talking to someone in a parked vehicle close to her Columbine Valley home. When she didn’t arrive home that night her parents contacted the Arapahoe County Police Department and embarked on a frantic search.
The search would yield no sign of Marilee until the following day when her