COLD CASE: 3 MISSING, 1 DEAD IN PIKE NATIONAL FOREST IN 1981

Dametz

Atterberry and McNear

Ihm

Cindy Atterberry, 25, and Joe McNear, 30, vanished from Pike National Forest in Douglas County on June 27, 1981.

Their disappearances remain a mystery - as do two other 1981 cold cases from the annals of the national forest.

Atterberry and McNear, who moved to Colorado from Illinois, may have been shot during an argument with two men, also from Illinois, according to the Charley Project crime database.

A few years later, a tipster reported their bodies were stuffed in 55-gallon drums and buried on property owned by one of the men - near the South Platte River.

Searches of the property yielded no evidence in the mid-1980s - and the bizarre case went cold.

Two months before Atterberry and McNear vanished, Maurice “Doc” Dametz, 75, went missing in the Devil’s Hand section of the national forest on April 29,1981

Dametz was last seen rock hunting near Rampart Range Road. according to the Douglas County Sheriff Office's office cold case file.

On March 8,1981, the body of James Ihm, 29, was discovered at the national forest's Rainbow Falls Campground. Ihm had been shot to death, according to sheriff's office records.

[Photos: Douglas County Sheriff's Office]