The 1960 murder of Adolph Coors III was one of Colorado’s greatest tragedies. The 44-year-old chairman of Adolph Coors Co., Ad Coors, was killed in a botched kidnapping attempt by Joseph Corbett ...

This wasn’t just any station wagon, though. It belonged to Adolph Coors III, the 44-year-old chairman of the Golden brewery and the grandson of its founder — one of the state’s best known ...

DENVER — Joe Corbett, free from prison since 1980 for the 1960 murder of Adolph Coors III, took his own life Monday with a gunshot to his head. Corbett, 80 and diagnosed with cancer, was ...

Oct. 31, 1960. The judge ordered his removal to Colorado where was charged in the kidnap-slaying of prominent brewer Adolph Coors III. Colorado was a sleepy place in 1960. But when an heir to one ...

Seven months before, on Feb. 9, the 44-year-old heir to the Coors Brewing empire, Adolph Coors III, had disappeared on his way to work, leaving behind an abandoned, bloodstained car on a country ...

The victim was Adolph Coors 3d, known as Ad ... He found a pair of trousers, with a label that read, “Expressly for Mr. A. Coors, III” and a penknife in the pocket with the inscription ...

The ransom note that he left Adolph Coors III’s wife is the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s artifact of the month. Your husband has been kidnapped. His car is by Turkey Creek. Call the ...

On this day, Feb. 9, in 1960, Coors brewery heir Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and held for ransom in Colorado before being shot to death. The FBI launched one of its largest manhunts ever for a ...

How good is John McPhee? Patient enough to explain how dirt and gravel helped solved the kidnap murders of Adolph Coors III and DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar. Dogged enough to follow a brand ...