![]() “He was just the nicest fellow and would do anything for you and help you out,” said Ogilvie. He said most folks in the close-knit ranching community knew Tim fairly well. “We have always thought it was tragic that it has not been resolved,” said Dave Ogilvie, who ranches two spreads over from where Tim and Lynn did. Tim’s friends in Silver City still mourn their friend, whom they called “Okie,” a nod to his Oklahoma upbringing, and wonder why the case was never solved. “I would take pictures all year long that I wouldn’t share with the kids,” said Lynn, “then at Christmastime I would make an album and special card for them.” Even the very youngest grandson, who was born in October of the year Tim was killed, has memories of the ranch through pictures and stories passed down. She finally sold the ranch in 2012, and returned to Arizona.īut every family gathering, all the stories that have been told, all the cherished memories that are shared, are of times on the ranch. Lynn stayed on at Montaña del Oso for seven years after Tim was killed. “The ranch had been the family dream for 15 years.” He was bigger than life to those grandchildren and my son and daughter,” she said. “It’s horrible enough to lose someone you love, but it really has been hard on the family. “Tim’s death has devastated our family,” said Lynn. Fisher, public affairs officer with the Albuquerque Division. The FBI even briefly looked at the case, but then decided they didn’t have jurisdiction, according to Frank A. Tim’s case has been aired on “America’s Most Wanted” at least three times - in 2006, 20 - but at that time the case was focused on finding a woman who was considered a person of interest. Early on, several people were investigated, one person was even charged, but later those charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. Detectives have traveled across the state - to Santa Fe, Santa Rosa, and more - following up on tips. Over the years, they have followed up on every lead, Sheriff Raul Villanueva said. But the Grant County Sheriff’s Office says his case has not been forgotten. Twelve years later, Tim’s murder remains unsolved. I just rubbed on his back and talked to him and got to say my goodbyes to him.” His coat was pulled up where they dragged him. “God intervened on my behalf because they would never, ever have let me see him,” Lynn said. She ran back to her car to call 911 - amazingly she had a signal - before going back to her husband. Then I went into the woods and started shining the light everywhere and that’s when I found him.” When I turned around, my flashlight picked up his glasses, and as I got close, I could see the blood - lots and lots of blood. Grabbing one herself, she headed back to Tim’s truck. “I very slowly headed back to the house, thinking maybe he fell.”īy the time she got to the gate of their property, she called her friend Pattie in town and told her to get a flashlight and head up. “This time I went over to the driver’s side and opened the door and I saw his phone sitting on the console, and I knew he wouldn’t have left his phone,” she said. When she got to his truck again she stopped. With still no sign of her husband, Lynn turned around and headed back up to the ranch. The overhead light was out on that side of the truck, but she could see her husband was not inside, so she continued down the mountain to Alabama Street in town. “I honked my horn, and when he didn’t appear I went over to the passenger door and knocked on the window.” “I drove up, his lights were on, but the truck was off,” she said. Getting worried, Lynn headed down from the ranch to see if she could find him, thinking he might have broken down. He called Lynn and told her he was about 30 minutes from home. He had been in town running errands - picking up groceries for the New Year’s Eve party he and Lynn had planned with friends, and hauling a load of hay back up to the ranch in his pickup. It was dusk when Tim was heading home to his ranch, Montaña del Oso, after stopping to have a holiday drink with a friend. When the people responsible for taking his life 12 years ago today on Bear Mountain left him face down in the dirt with his throat cut, they didn’t just kill a man, they killed a dream.Įdwards was living his, with his college sweetheart wife, Lynn, in the home they built together on the ranch they retired to in 1995 after careers as educators in Arizona. To his children and grandchildren, the students he taught and coached throughout his 30-year career, and his wife of 42 years, John Timothy Edwards was the man they all looked up to. ![]()
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