The body of a missing college student in Leadville was found Friday morning with the help of Colorado Forensic Canines.
Colton Wilson was last seen Thursday, January 29th. His body was found about 50 yards off a popular trail in a remote area on the campus of Colorado Mountain College.
Mike McHargue, the Lake County Emergency Manager said, “It was about 50 yards from that in an almost un-trafficable area.” He added, “It’s very difficult, even with snow shoes or skis, to go very far unless you’re on a trail.”
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Colorado Mountain College encompasses more than 250 acres and most of it is open space.
Search and Rescue teams began looking for Wilson Saturday after his father filed a missing person’s report. Then, the Sheriff’s Office confirmed he wasn’t with friends.
Lake County Sheriff Rod Fenske said, “Those leads all went dry pretty quick, so as we continued to look, everything seemed to lead us back to the Colorado Mountain Campus.”
Initial reports had Wilson leaving the dorm in pajama bottoms and loafers, but he was found wearing snow pants and a ski jacket. Sheriff Fenske said, “He went back to the dorm, apparently, and changed.”
He was last seen with a snowboard, but that snowboard was not found with his body.
Now investigators are trying to determine how long he’d be out there. “There’s no way to really tell that and the only way to tell that is through body temperature and that’s hard to say, so he could have been there eight days or, you’re correct, he could have come back and forth from the college where nobody saw him,” Sheriff Fenske said.
The Sheriff’s office doesn’t suspect any foul play. They said the reason the dogs weren’t brought in sooner is simply because they’re cadaver dogs and those aren’t used immediately in a missing person’s case.
It was in fact Wilson’s father who helped bring in Colorado Forensic Canines to help in the search.
