The first case assigned
to the Cold Case Cowboys was the 28 year old murder of Benny Lee King. Benny and
his crime partner, Kenneth Nail had been arrested in December of 1974 for a home-invasion
type robbery and rape. King was bailed out by his Grandmother but disappeared.
In February of 1975 Benny King was shotgunned to death, then left in the forested
Callahan Mountains just East of Roseburg, OR. However, his remains were not found
for 23 more years. Then in 1998, 3 people discovered them while hunting/picking
mushrooms. The case was assigned to the Cold Case Cowboys in January of 2003 and
in May of 2003 the case was solved.
Details of this case and our investigation
were the subject of a Kurtis Production's "Cold
Case Files" show on A&E that first aired on August
17th, 2004.
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