Colorado police name suspect 23 years after woman’s killing
AURORA, Colo. - Colorado police have named a suspect in the stabbing death of a woman 23 years ago, although the man identified by detectives has been dead for 12 years.
The Aurora Sentinel reports police investigators named Wesley Backman as the probable killer of 25-year-old Tangie Sims in October 1996. Backman died in 2008.
Authorities say Sims was last seen at an Aurora intersection walking toward a freight truck.
Detectives Steve Conner and Michael Prince named Backman as the primary suspect following DNA testing of blood from the crime scene that was traced through the truck driver's relatives.