Wednesday, September 17, 2025

COLD CASE: HUNT KILLER OF SID WELLS, LATE BOYFRIEND OF ACTOR ROBERT REDFORD'S DAUGHTER


University of Colorado student Sid Wells, boyfriend of actor Robert Redford's daughter, Shauna, was shot to death in a Boulder condominium in 1983.

The slaying went cold until 2010 when a warrant was issued for 
Thayne Alan Smika, Wells' roommate, who had been a prime suspect.

In 2011, Wells' stepfather said: "Without the arrest warrant, we couldn't hunt for him and now we can."

Smika is still on the loose, and the FBI has a bounty on his head.

He's in his late 60s - and even today, he should be considered armed and dangerous, the FBI says.

Redford told a Denver television station in 2011: "
There is such a thing called closure. When solved, there will be a completion to it everybody will be happy to see come."

The actor never did. He died in his sleep Tuesday at age 89.

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