In a rural mountain region of Eagle County, Colorado, a resident shoots and kills a man he believes to be a masked, armed intruder — only to learn the victim is a friend.
A Rocky Mountain mystery evolves when deputies find the skeletal remains of a man near the summit of a mountain in Eagle County. Detectives, coroners and forensic pathologists work to determine who he is, how he died and why.
Boulder County, Colorado, covers hundreds of square miles, much of which is the Rocky Mountains — the perfect place for a man escaped from jail to hide. After eluding law enforcement agencies for more than a week, the fugitive is spotted in the mountains of Boulder County.
A person on a suicide watch is found dead from a gunshot wound in the chest.
Rocky Mountain officers stake out the Interstate 70 corridor for drug runners moving through Colorado. The recent legalization of retail marijuana in Colorado has made that highway a focal point for targeting individuals attempting to move pot and other drugs out of state illegally. Officers have their hands full not only trying to spot suspicious vehicles but finding where the drugs may be hidden.
When officers in Grand County, Colorado, learn a local resident is wanted on a serious charge in Illinois, a manhunt begins. The wilderness presents the fugitive with many places to hide — and deputies with difficult challenges to hunt the man down.
Officers in Boulder and Grand counties in Colorado handle the unique challenges of enforcing the law in the Rockies. They protect the mountains, monitor and control transient camps, explore snowbound regions to assess the avalanche risk and ensure that one of the nation’s greatest natural treasures for recreation remains beautiful, pristine and well protected.
The Rocky Mountains are brilliant in daylight, but nightfall sometimes reveals a dark and sinister side … one that deputies need to defuse. Ride along with officers in Grand, Eagle and Boulder counties as they face everything from domestic disputes to knife threats to vehicle collisions.