Search for Ben Bradley's killer expands

By GIL BRADY and LAUREN M. WHALEY
Star-Tribune correspondents

Filed 1.20.07
Updated 1.22.07, 12:02 a.m., MST

JACKSON -- Bound for a final spring fling in the snow-drenched Tetons, the snowboarder was found dead and weathered beside a bone-dry volcano named Boar’s Tusk.

Sightseers likely discovered the young man with his arms haloing his head.

The Red Desert had stained his skin the color of a similar wine while turning his 6-foot-3 body into a virtual mummy. Also deforming his semi-exposed torso were multiple “tennis-ball-size” stab wounds, according to one former suspect who still recalls the crime scene photos from last October.

A later autopsy confirmed the victim had been stabbed to death.

But one haunting question, in this nearly four-month mystery, remains: Who brutally killed Colorado hitchhiker and extreme sportsman Ben Bradley?

Last week some dedicated Wyoming detectives joined forces with the national crime-fighting syndicate “America’s Most Wanted” to help unravel that very riddle.

“I think if you read the whole story" on the America's Most Wanted Web site, "it may encourage people to come forward,” Sweetwater County Detective Sgt. Dennis Claman said.

(Click & Read on courtsey of the Casper Star-Tribune)

Photo Captions & Credits: 1) "Boar's Tusk, Sweetwater County, Wyo.," 2) "Ben Bradley's one-of-a-kind, custom-made 'Never Summer' Snowboard," 3) "Ben Bradley about a month before he vanished in June 2006" courtsey of official sources and on-line stock

CLICK HERE-----> Ben Bradley's Case @Amreica's Most Wanted

Tipster Hotlines: 1-800-CRIME-TV, SWCSO (307) 872.6350, or call your local police

CLICK HERE--->CS-T's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW w/one-time Bradley murder suspect Tommy Bowman.

Photo Caption & Credit: "Still from Bowman's Nov.'06 "On the Record with Greta Van Susterern appearance" courtsey of FOX