On the afternoon of March 8, 1980, two boys were found shot to death in a field near Tower Road in Aurora, Colorado. Seven-year-old Ronald Lewis Defond and his 10-year-old friend Steven Wicks were discovered lying side by side by a passerby, and the Adams County Sheriff’s Office opened a homicide investigation.

The case is documented by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and remains unsolved. No suspects or arrests have been publicly announced, and the double homicide is now treated as a cold case. The killings left a lasting wound in the local community and the families of the victims.

If anyone has memories, documents, or information about Ronald, Steven, their last known movements, or the area around Tower Road in early March 1980, please come forward.