District Attorney Leo Rector of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Sheriff John Hammond, look at a dump area where clothing and bones identified as belonging to Adolph Coors III were found, Sept. 15 ...

On this day, Feb. 9, in 1960, Coors beer heir Adolph Coors III was shot to death in a botched kidnapping attempt on his way to the family brewery in Golden, Colo. Eight days later, a burned-out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coors, 44, vanished near Morrison on Feb. 9, 1960, while en route to work as chairman of the Adolph Coors Co. His body was found Sept. 11, 1960, in the hills southwest of Sedalia. He had been shot ...

The victim was Adolph Coors 3d, known as Ad, the 44-year-old scion to the beer empire started by his grandfather in 1873. Coors, himself allergic to beer, was president of the company, which he ...

A man convicted in the 1960 slaying of the Coors brewery founder's grandson, one of Colorado's most notorious cases, has died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.