Glen Pflug was credited with reorganizing the Woodland Park Fire Department and often volunteered in the city on various projects. His daughter wrote a moving letter to the Ute Pass Courier about her father following his murder appealing to the killer to come forward. This is the only unsolved murder on the books of the Teller County Sheriff. Pflug was 57 at the time of his death. He and his wife lived in a home just west of Woodland Park.
Pflug’s wife had returned from a shopping trip that winter afternoon and found her husband unresponsive. The hysterical woman sought help at the Woodland Park Police Department. An officer returned to the home with her and found Pflug on his face with a gunshot to the back of his head.
In a Courier story dated Feb. 14, 1980, Sheriff Shoemaker’s department was investigating two suspects, who were not named and not charged with the crime. A week later there were no new suspects and few reports about the crime were forthcoming after that date.
If you have any information about this murder, please call (719) 687-9652.