The photograph of serial killer Roy Melanson and a young girl on the cover of the book, SMOOTH TALKER, was taken from the last photo on the roll from Michele Wallace’s camera. He noted to the parole board members that he has a new appeal before the Colorado Supreme Court. But he’s made the same arguments to appellate courts and been denied every time. But it wasn’t until a Gunnison County sheriff’s deputy began looking into the cold case in the early 1990s that Michele’s remains were located off a remote mountain road and Melanson was brought to trial and convicted.Īs he did at his trial and since, Melanson argued to the parole board members that his conviction was illegal because a cause of death could not be determined due to the condition of Wallace’s remains. He was later in possession of her car and other items, including her camera on which he appeared in the last photo lying on a couch next to an unidentified teenager. Melanson, who she’d picked up hitchhiking, was the last person seen with her. Melanson claimed he did not murder Michele Wallace, a young woman who disappeared in August 1974 while returning from a backpacking trip near Crested Butte, Colorado. Not unexpected for a man who lied and weaseled his way out of trouble for decades while he murdered women from California to Colorado to Louisiana and God knows where else. These were just a few of the lies Melanson told the two board members present. Nor, he said, are there any detainers from other jurisdictions that would prohibit them from setting him free. Murder that got him sentenced to life with the possibility of parole in a Colorado penitentiary. Michelle Wallace disappeared in 1974 after giving a ride to serial killer Roy Melanson in Gunnison, Colorado
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