A newlywed husband is found dead while on a hunting trip in Colorado’s Uncompahgre National Forest. Initially, all signs point to a tragic hunting accident, but a closer look reveals something far more calculated and sinister.
John Bruce Dodson (Photo Source) Find A Grave
Bruce and Janice Dodson and their wedding day (Photo Source) Forensic Files Now
Janice Dodson (Photo Source) Colorado Department of Corrections: Janice Dodson Inmate Profile
Uncompahgre National Forest Map (Source) Google
Uncompahgre National Forest Map (Source) Google
Episode Source Material
- Forensic Files: Season 9, Episode 25: “Muddy Waters” via Prime Video.
- Snapped: Season 26, Episode 5: “Janice Dodson” via Peacock.
- The Daily Sentinel: Cops find cartridge in slaying. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Hunter dies when friend backs over him with truck. By C. Patrick Cleary via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: John B. Dodson. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Hunters could have clue to man’s death in 1995. By Sean Jackson via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Murder case solved after 3 years. By Ted Taylor via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Insurance behind hunter’s killing, papers say. By Ted Taylor via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Sheriff’s bust of aging murder pours alcohol on incumbent’s burns. By Gary Harmon via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Ruling put off in hunting murder case. By Shannon Joyce via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Woman to stand trial in murder of hunter. By Shannon Joyce via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Murder suspect may ask court for special prosecutor. By Shannon Joyce via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Ex-resident goes to trial in ‘95 death of husband. By Shannon Joyce via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Judge allows limited facts at murder trial. By Shannon Joyce via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Jury selection to begin in shooting trial. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Jurors pack courtroom for GJ trial. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Trial begins in ‘95 death of hunter. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Ex-husband testifies in murder trial. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Murder suspect can shoot, her ex says. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: 2nd shot fatal, doc says. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Defendant received check for guns she thought to be stolen. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Chemist: Found bullet matches one taken from shooting victim. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Jury still deliberating in Grand Junction murder trial. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Solid investigation convicts a backcountry murderer. By Staff via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Murder conviction is upheld by court. By Zack Barnett via newspapers.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: Murder case goes to print. By Mike Wiggins via newspapers.com.
- ABC News: A murder disguised as a hunting accident. By Staff via abcnews.go.com.
- The Daily Sentinel: DA investigator honored for work. By Mike Wiggins via newspapers.com.
- Forensic Files Now: Janice Dodson: Husband hunter. By Rebecca Reisner via forensicfilesnow.com.
- Oxygen: Woman murders husband of 3 months plays it off as ‘hunting accident’. By Benjamin H. Smith via oxygen.com.
- Colorado Department of Corrections: Janice Dodson Inmate Profile
- Find A Grave for John Bruce Dodson
- Murderpedia on Janice Dodson
- Book on the case, Dead Center by Frank J. Daniels.