On a spring day in 1975, Melanie Suzanne Cooley, an 18-year-old White female known to her friends as "Suzi," left Nederland High School for the last time. It was April 15th, and the high school senior was last seen hitchhiking in the mountain town of Nederland, Colorado. An artistic and spirited individual, Melanie enjoyed photography, writing poetry, and playing the guitar. She had even embroidered a large, distinctive eagle on the back of the blue jean jacket she was wearing that day, along wi
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