Cold Cases: Killers Walking Free, No Justice For Victims
Imagine the pain you’d feel if your mom, daughter, son or father were killed, and police had to tell you – you may never get justice.
There are dozens of unsolved murders in Colorado Springs, many more throughout Southern Colorado.
Inside room 2226 at the Springs Police Department is a cold reality – a victim in each file and each file means a killer walks free.
Jamil Salaam is one file. 3 young men, two black and one hispanic, gunned him down in 2007.
“For him and his family we’d like to bring this to closure,” said retired federal investigator Al Sarno. He now works the Cold Cases.
“(Salaam) did not have any affiliation with gangs, did not appear to be involved in any illegal activities, had a very wide circle of friends, seemed very well liked,” said Sarno.
The deadly shooting happened in the parking lot of the Pine Creek Apartments on Chapman Drive.
3 young men wearing masks came up to Jamil and a girl who was with him.
“I guess she reported he tried to shield her and she ran away,” Jamil’s father told us, “the next thing you know… he was gone.”
Jamil loved basketball, was a star player at Widefield High School.
He was in college hoping to become a lawyer.
4 hours before he was shot to death, he was at his dad’s house and gave him what would be a final kiss goodbye. “That’s a lasting memory I have of him, kissing me on the forehead.”
Jamil’s family’s praying for justice, just like all the other cold case families.
“Barbara Freyschlag was found in her home at 2222 Constellation Drive,” Officer Joe Matiatos worked the cold cases, including the Freyschlag case.
She owned the Broadmoor Ski Shop and was found dead in her home in 1986.
Her husband, KG, was away on a trip and when he came home and found her. She’d been shot several times in the kitchen portion of their house.
KG was the president of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce, and was in Reno when the murder happened. He died last year, but officers investigating the case suspected he had something to do with his wife’s murder.
“It’s a puzzle, and every piece you can put in that puzzle starts making that picture clearer,” said Sarno.
Investigators say if you have any information on any of the case, give them a call at 444-7000.
You can also remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers 634-STOP.
