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you come here for the lifestyle and the beauty and the mountains getting to go skiing
and hiking and biking Annette schnee was very beautiful she had gone to a modeling school and she
came here to Breckenridge everybody was going to Colorado you know go find yourself go to the Big Town you
know in 1982 on January 6th Annette had gone from her work in Frisco at the Holiday
Inn she needed to get home to get her outfit to work at the flipside bar that night she would hitchhike from her house
do her day job hitchhike back and put on her nighttime cocktail waitress outfit he checked there and then hitchhiked
back a lot of people hitchhiked at that time because they can't afford to drive or
get a car to drive back and forth there was a storm a bad storm it was very cold too I think it was 20 below
about 4 45 in the afternoon was the last time anybody saw a net schnee that same night another young woman
disappeared in Breckenridge Bobby Joe oberholtzer Bobby Joe had received a promotion at
work and she was going to go celebrate with some friends Bobby Joe was pre-spirited she loved life she was
happy wherever she was she left and went to go hitchhike home and that was the last time she was seen
the day after Bobby Joe disappeared her body was found here on the side of a snow bank on Hoosier pass 10 miles
outside Breckenridge she had tragically been shot six months later the body of Annette schnee was also found about 10
miles in that direction in a desolate area lying face down in a stream she had also been shot the mystery of what
happened to these two beautiful young women would haunt their families and investigators for years
these two women they were both killed the same night the thing that tied them both together
was an orange booty sock you get a sock in your Bobby Joe over holds her and the mate to it is found on the body
of an acacia I'm seeing this is amazing as years went by you know we Muse about whether or not we were going to die
before we solved this case what no one else knew at the time was that the Killer's truck got stuck on a
snowy mountain pass that same night right after the murders that would be right where that curve is over there and
there's snow banks at least that deep yeah and a local fire chief saved him everything catches up you now get away
with anything forever

In 1982 the bodies of Annette Schnee and Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer were found outside a luxe ski town. A man rescued from a snowdrift the night of the murders turned out to be their killer. "48 Hours" contributor Natalie Morales reports Saturday, November 19 at 10/9c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the 1982 murders of Annette Schnee and Bobby Joe Oberholtzer in Breckenridge, Colorado, and their mysterious connection.

Key points

The Disappearance of Annette Schnee. Annette Schnee vanished on January 6th, 1982, after hitchhiking home from work.
Bobby Joe Oberholtzer's Tragic Fate. Bobby Joe Oberholtzer was last seen hitchhiking home after celebrating a promotion.
The Connection Between the Victims. Both women were killed the same night, linked by a mysterious orange sock.

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Episode quotes

Everybody was going to Colorado, you know.

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