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Who murdered John Nygaard in 1977?
John Nygaard was found dead on May 24, 1977, in Jefferson County, Colorado. He was discovered early that morning near the entrance to the Chieftain Mine, immediately west of the Lakewood Motorcycle Park at about 15000 West Alameda Parkway. Workers for Robinson Brick arrived at the gate around 6:40 a.m., and when they got out, they found Nygaard's body. What had begun as an ordinary morning at an industrial site became the discovery point in a homicide that remains unresolved in the publicly avai ...Read More

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Victim Details

John Nygaard

October 31, 2022

Male

White / Caucasian

Lakewood

CO

1977-05-24

1977-05-23

1977-05-24

John

Nygaard

06/23/2026


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